asciilifeform: ''According to the civil complaint filed in federal court in Virginia on Tuesday, the boy had been given an “SSSS designation indicating that he had been designated as a ‘known or suspected terrorist'" while going through airport security. Since he was a seven-month-old, Baby Doe, as he is referred to, was subject to “extensive searches,” including rifling through all of his diapers.'

asciilifeform: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/04/baby-who-had-his-diapers-searched-at-airport-is-part-of-class-action-suit << lulz from same rag.

asciilifeform: http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/04/neutered-random-number-generator-let-man-rig-million-dollar-lotteries << lulzier nyooz imho

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: oh for fucks sake!1 that's qntraworthy now?! ☟︎

asciilifeform: who dispenses food and tampon alike!11

asciilifeform: though here in the land of the great inca, all women formally belong to the great inca

asciilifeform: i have profoundly nfi!

asciilifeform: i looked inside, wondering if anyone threw in used one, but - apparently not.

asciilifeform: but it was the tampon donation bin that really melted my brain.

asciilifeform: http://thisainthell.us/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/claymore-thumb1-300x222.jpg << for ref.

asciilifeform: aha.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: american courts largely operate 'on technicalities' now, except when usg's verdict is assured by a tame freisler. it is how they avoid crafting inconvenient precedents.

asciilifeform: iirc 'overturned on a technicality' (tm)

asciilifeform: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/29/nyregion/hacker-weev-says-he-printed-anti-semitic-and-racist-fliers-at-colleges-across-us.html?_r=0 << also lulzy re same

asciilifeform: http://archive.is/5QqLI

asciilifeform: circa some time last wk

asciilifeform: 'diamondback'

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: univ. of md. rag

asciilifeform: ^ the antic in the 1st photo turned out to be, apparently, weev!

asciilifeform: randomly, http://imgur.com/a/vYO6K

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-04-08#1448603 << i'm beginning to suspect that ~every~ subj has its shabbatai zev. ☝︎

asciilifeform: too many biodiesel candidates walking.

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-04-08#1448653 << this performance is not likely avoidable. ☝︎

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-04-08#1448652 << which is precisely why i call the thing 'nazi' and its hypothetical center of mass - hitler. ☝︎

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-04-08#1448645 << recall mr mold's 'reign of fnargl' ? ☝︎

asciilifeform: 'ghaddafi's usd are no longer valid!11'

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-04-08#1448626 << afaik there is nothing to keep usg from zeroing out any usd account they feel like, whenever ☝︎

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-04-08#1448622 << was it mircea_popescu at c2 who had a talk about how 'scammitude' is rather like friction, and is not escapeable ? ☝︎

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-04-08#1448586 << i have a scan of the canonical (j. barnes) 2012, if either of you want. ☝︎

asciilifeform: aha!

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it was 'mortido' that led me to bid. i wanted to see if i could pull it off without getting killed immediately.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: before.

asciilifeform: but srsly, just ~storing~ 100s of btc is nontrivial, esp in the barbarian lands

asciilifeform: (cue jurov's 'one that shoots 0fee tx!111')

asciilifeform: (of bbet)

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-04-08#1448569 << this is sorta why i was astonished at the high sale price; buyer will have to build ~his own~ mircea_popescutron ☝︎

asciilifeform: $gettrust wywialm

asciilifeform: guten morgen mircea_popescu !

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-04-08#1448593 << 'we have packaged the defective transistors separately!111' ☝︎

asciilifeform: read the rationale b00kz, understand how and why.

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-04-08#1448517 << again, unlike literally the entire whole of rest of computingdom, the old adas are neither less-broken NOR BETTER-supported. ☝︎

asciilifeform: quite unlike the rest of computing, yes, but don't take my word for it

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-04-08#1448516 << nope ☝︎

asciilifeform: mthreat: incidentally, the old wot was imported, you oughta be able to voice yourself.

asciilifeform: welcome to the new planet mthreat

asciilifeform: $up mthreat

asciilifeform: mod6: for a good example of one that ~isn't~ - see the epic mircea_popescu thread with otp!

asciilifeform: mod6: if you have a known-plaintext vulnerable cipher, yes.

asciilifeform: heil hitler aha

asciilifeform: is there a skipped log line..?

asciilifeform: mod6: what about turing

asciilifeform: aha.

asciilifeform: mod6: is what ?

asciilifeform: conversely, don't ~accept~ grunts.

asciilifeform: yes, there live idiots who sign 'yes' and 'no'. don't be them.

asciilifeform: problem solved.

asciilifeform: just don't sign nonspecific grunts

asciilifeform: http://www.thocp.net/hardware/pascaline.htm << moar

asciilifeform: http://www.computermuseum.li/Testpage/Pascaline-Calculator-1642.htm

asciilifeform: condemned to the pascaline!11

asciilifeform: aha, earliest known clockwork calc is 'antikythera mechanism'

asciilifeform: (which i always for some reason picture as something like a guillotine!11 but it was a calculator.)

asciilifeform: pascal had a very leibnizian 'pascaline'

asciilifeform: mod6: complicated.

asciilifeform bbl.

asciilifeform: (as do the scum, yes)

asciilifeform: like it or not, 'good things flow to the city'

asciilifeform: note also that the far east ghost towns in su, but moscow is not.

asciilifeform: nor are washington bridges yet falling.

asciilifeform: max.

asciilifeform: and when i get small voltage dip and call repair truck, it shows up in 40 min.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: you say this, but i've never seen fireballs emerging from the asphalt.

asciilifeform: like the sov towns in far east that are frozen ghost towns now.

asciilifeform: not in a week, not in a month.

asciilifeform: point being, the time will come when $infrastructure explodes and is not repaired.

asciilifeform: they heat with cow shit.

asciilifeform: zimbabwes weren't meant to have piped gas.

asciilifeform: ok now ~that's~ bizarre.

asciilifeform: or if not yet, will soon.

asciilifeform: right here they are, i imagine, holding up reagan

asciilifeform: so - them!

asciilifeform: in '90s

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: didja have in ro the old folks holding up pictures of stalin ?

asciilifeform: busker is a very active, in your face thing

asciilifeform: busker != old woman selling sweaters

asciilifeform: it is a lulzy reversal, actually, normally it is i who 'none of these apparent X are true X'

asciilifeform sees where mircea_popescu is going.

asciilifeform: all carved up.

asciilifeform: like in the 'pioneers land' trilema article.

asciilifeform: but my point was that folks-who-definitely-aren't-me own the whole lot.

asciilifeform: this, yes.

asciilifeform: ah i see what mircea_popescu meant re gold etc.

asciilifeform: i suspect even my arse has owner, somewhere in a filing cabinet some parasite has title to it.

asciilifeform: every sidewalk tile i step on has owner.

asciilifeform: the owners are not imagined.

asciilifeform: recall the lab robot thread ?

asciilifeform: the more poisonous - the better.

asciilifeform: any fly in their soup is a friend of mine.

asciilifeform: which is why i fundamentally cannot hate rms, say

asciilifeform: the folks who carved up and own the whole fucking universe, are responsible for this.