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fromphuctor: I'm mainly trying to determine if I have generated a key with bad entropy leading to bad primes meaning easy factorability
mircea_popescu: a) if you're looking for binaries it's unlikely your key is your weak point ; b) gcd is an algorithm, i guess you could call it a function. "greatest common divisor" ; c) P is at the core of this, as it looks for MUTUAL divisors
fromphuctor: gcd as in the math function? does it exist in a binary?
mircea_popescu: which is like half a gig by now iirc
mircea_popescu: insist a few times
mircea_popescu: fromphuctor well atm it's working through a lengthy list of keys already extant on the sks servers.
fromphuctor: it's quite a large key with a few subkeys, total upload size is around 13K
cazalla: also amusing they related a bitcoin transaction with fraud when it is really the antithesis to that sorta thing (except humble bundle who rumour is got carded big time for gaming codes using coinbase)
fromphuctor: do I have a voice?
mircea_popescu: cazalla you know i had an account for a decade +, which ~I~ closed ?
cazalla: eatinstrawberry, try and use "romanian" and "paypal" in a legitimate sentence lol
cazalla: eatinstrawberry, ya having a few drinks there vexual?
cazalla: decimation, i should do a voice over youtube video for that meme
mircea_popescu: http://41.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6v9czop681qg8ft2o1_1280.jpg << i confess the thigh ankle leather wraps are a splendid idea.
fourhunderdtypes: hey i could make a ballet
decimation: I heard that marrying a white girl is the same as selling an abo gasoline
fourhunderdtypes: if i dont marry a foreigner, im not a torrorist
decimation: why would changing australia into a republic change anything important?
decimation: "In a separate debriefing, however, ROCC controller Vale?re White contradicted Conner, saying that she did give that order. ?I go, to 510: ?510, stop your train.? I said it to her twice.?"
fourhunderdtypes: can u dumb it down a little?
decimation: "Incredibly, the second train?s driver, Connie Conner, proceeded into L?Enfant Plaza even after she heard her counterpart in the train a few hundred feet ahead asking for clearance to reverse course and return to the station. A controller says she twice ordered Ms. Conner to stop her train short of the station; Ms. Conner denies it."
fourhunderdtypes: i am a little bit of a strawberryfan
mircea_popescu: i just don't recall ever seeing this, white on a strawberry, as a kid. that's more of a framboise thing
punkman: my strawberries have a bit of white there too, but this batch is good, smells/tastes like strawberry rather than water balloon
mircea_popescu: punkman i can readily see asciilifeform argue that moreover joe stack was part of an obscure bezzlatron to provide office refurbishment at a profit. why not rite.
decimation: http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/ntsb-begins-two-days-of-public-hearings-into-fatal-metro-incident/2015/06/22/1884da66-190e-11e5-93b7-5eddc056ad8a_story.html < metro is run entirely by orcs, who cannot do anything as complicated as reversing a single train
decimation: asciilifeform: there's a similar story with the recently-released files on the metro 'smoke incident'
asciilifeform: (recall the janitor who burned down a nuke sub?)
asciilifeform: as in, demolishes a 100m whatever
asciilifeform: a filthy orc knifing a policeman, or similar, is not a 'joe stack.' in my mind, 'stack' is a fella who inflicts disproportionate damage
mircea_popescu: decimation that's a point.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform my words were "the very real pressure of a million tiny joe stacks"
decimation: and considering that every usg agency is effectively a megaproject, usg operates on maybe 1% of its outlays
decimation: well, if you take the megaprojects guy's arguments at face value, the average megaproject has a 99% chance of failure
mircea_popescu: there's been about two a week.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there's been over a hundred this year.
asciilifeform: wake me up when a hundred, much less million, 'stacks'
mircea_popescu: under the very real pressure of a million tiny joe stacks
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and they'll be 60% privateer on a tripled budget and it still won't be enough
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-06-2015#1175691 << this is a very good argument ☝︎
mircea_popescu: doubtful, but anyway. it's a question of when.
mircea_popescu: that was the one pacifier of a thousand quashed hopes.
mircea_popescu: it can not have a seat anywhere.
asciilifeform: decimation: not if microshit has a seat at the table.
decimation: I would agree that if we have a few decades with roughly stable ic fab tech, it's likely that 'growth' will come from genuine design differences
assbot: Logged on 25-06-2015 03:49:51; asciilifeform: because there is no way to effectively amortize the astronomical costs without running a scam of one kind or another.
decimation: the 'two parties' thing kinda became a convenient foil to distract the masses while the bureaucracy runs things
mircea_popescu: for a fundamentally broken people.
assbot: Logged on 25-06-2015 03:55:27; asciilifeform: this is why i believe that the discovery of integrated circuit was a serious 'degutenbergization' from which we have not even begun to recover.
mircea_popescu: da fuckiung world we live in. viasat has been doing satellites forever. google is a newcomer in the field. spacex is a newcomer in general. yet the viasat ceo has to explain why he, the expert, is doing what he's doing. the newb schmucks aren't expected to explain themselves.
asciilifeform: (picture if the 'anti-centralization hardfork' were a regular event.)
asciilifeform: if you even smell the practice - your whole system has failed in a catastrophic way
asciilifeform: thing is, like the old-fashioned proverbial nukefest, above scenario works best as a game-theoretical device
asciilifeform: 'what is the point of building a doomsday machine if no one is told!' (tm) (r) ('strangelove')
decimation: and if you want to put a txn on the block, gotta meet their terms
asciilifeform: 'Colby asked if he could have a firing squad. No, Howard said, he could not. Howard said a firing squad would just be an ego trip for Colby, the blindfold and last-cigarette bit, and that Colby was in enough hot water already without trying to "upstage" everyone with unnecessary theatrics. Colby said he was sorry, he hadn't meant it that way, he'd take the tree. Tomas crumpled up the gibbet sketches he'd been making, in disgus
asciilifeform: (which sums to the observation that it is possible to breed people to become a kind of cow)
assbot: Logged on 25-06-2015 04:39:01; decimation: but it would be nice for the miner to send a polite rejection 'add yer fee'
decimation: and of course, in retrospect everything looks like a good deal: "You should ask the people who actually got to pay for the projects and got to pay the extra sums, whether they are happy about it. Of course, later generations are happy about a project, because they get it for free ride. "
assbot: Logged on 25-06-2015 04:36:15; asciilifeform: i will confess that i've always found the whole 'mempool' thing to be a dodge
decimation: "That means that we don't have any other buildings. It's equivalent to taking Frank Gehry, who is considered the world's most famous architect by now and who is considered to be in the same league as Jørn Utzon regarding doing magic aesthetics and magic buildings. ... That's the cost of the Sydney Opera House. It was not a success; it was a huge failure, in those terms. "
decimation: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2015/05/bent_flyvbjerg.html > re: megaprojects: " Guest: No, it's actually worse than that. Nine out of ten have costs that are underestimated. Nine out of 10 have benefits that are overestimated, and 9 out of 10 have schedules that are underestimated. So, when you combine those, it's actually a very small fraction of projects that both are done to budgets, to schedule, and deliver the promised benefit
mircea_popescu: we want 1k+ launch events each day, and we want a total of 100 tons shipped upstairs a day.
mircea_popescu: but this is a mega project.
decimation: sure, but not a mega-project
mircea_popescu: which is what makes for a decent engineering project.
decimation: for one thing you would need a massive capacitor bank
mircea_popescu: just think you're making a bridge
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what's reasonable sized ? could be a mile long for all it matters.
asciilifeform: which is why i said, these folks are trying to push scam to a kind of logical conclusion
mircea_popescu: anyway, nioce contract to have. basically, it's a "build this many launchers and fire them continuously forever"
decimation: but this isn't a simple matter either, obviously
mircea_popescu: just give them a little assymetry allow them some limited self-righting
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i would suspect they'd have a minimal sail or something
mircea_popescu: so this is basically a continual launch deal.
decimation: so you a continuous parade to maintain coverage yes
decimation: a few times per day
decimation: leo is only visible for a few minutes at a time
decimation: low earth satellites can only 'see' a small fraction of the earth
mircea_popescu: if they stacked shit that high he could have a twin brother, go whiterafting with the bitcoin godfather pair.
mircea_popescu: decimation isn't he the original "how to make a small fortune ? start with a big one" ?
mircea_popescu: this "without installing a database management system or requiring a database administrator." reads to me like "car that can be used without breaks"
decimation: "Hipp was designing software used aboard guided missile destroyers, which were originally based on HP-UX with an IBM Informix database back-end. The design goals of SQLite were to allow the program to be operated without installing a database management system or requiring a database administrator."
decimation: no, actually it was originall designed to be wedged into a usg radar system
decimation: yeah, I think yarvin's 'state vs dod' proxy wars make a fair bit of sense
asciilifeform: muppet can 'bite' muppeteer, but to a point.
decimation: in retrospect, using 'tor' was a giveaway
asciilifeform: why would a 'serious' fella 1) use anything but what himself wrote 2) share so much as a word of it with anyone
decimation: a minor learning curve
decimation: but it would be nice for the miner to send a polite rejection 'add yer fee' ☟︎
decimation: asciilifeform: one can imagine an entire new 'metaprotocol' for sufficiently pleasing a miner to accept your txn
asciilifeform: i will confess that i've always found the whole 'mempool' thing to be a dodge ☟︎
decimation: or a conf flag for sorting txns by value for a miner
decimation: or by setting a conf flag for 'how long does txn sit'
decimation: if you failed to make it in a block, your txn doesn't exist, resend
decimation: a new block is found, some of the txns in memory are now contained in the new block
decimation: so when new block is found, and the new block only contains a subset of the existing tx pool
asciilifeform: asking node to accept maybe-verifiable-as-not-rubbish-tomorrow is a jam-tomorrow.
asciilifeform: key point here is that anything without a hard antecedent ~on disk now~ could equally well be random garbage
assbot: Logged on 05-06-2015 00:42:31; asciilifeform: mod6: he rebroadcasts until finds a node that can accept it without 'jam tomorrow'