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punkman: mircea_popescu: re:blender, why send paypal instead of btc (or even
a wire)?
mircea_popescu: ascii_field iirc the agreement was that it can go, as it serves no useful purpose nor has for
a long time - but not
a priority. we're atm working on getting the priorities in AND RUNNING
jurov: on slightly related note, we hatched with thestringpuller
a scheme for poor USians to take hold of X.EUR
mod6: So anyway, we'll have to remember this when we revist the Checkpoints issue. My patch will be rejected then, and we'll come up with something that gets rid of line 939 as well as pulling the checkpoints themselves out of checkpoints.cpp and into
a separate config file.
ascii_field: (i.e. invalid on account of
a field that can be corrected today without changing validity of signature)
mod6: at
a later time when we have everything setup for
a checkpoint configuration file, then we can revisit.
mod6: ascii_field: re: checkpoints: the patch worked fine to remove checkpoints, but it was tabled for the time being. the main discussion around this was that it could be helpful to hvae checkpoints in there to prevent spamming of blocks from timestamps before
a checkpoint.
☟︎ ascii_field: i'd much like to hear
a persuasive argument re: why all of the above won't happen.
ascii_field: (and before someone chimes in with 'so don't use brainwallet' - ~every~ wallet that you can get to, but mr schmuck can't, because you know where you buried it, etc. is in fact
a 'brainwallet')
ascii_field: i don't have
a prayer of doing half as good
a job as hanbot on this one.
mats: makes
a lot of economic sense. why waste good meat.
ascii_field: mats: works great with above setup. optionally jailer doesn't wait for you to starve,
a few wks without any signal from vending machine & you go to the harversing table (wide awake naturally)
ascii_field: everybody stands
a risk of being taken alive, and ought to be prepared mentally for this device.
ascii_field: this is what being
a prisoner ~means~ - you are
a plaything for someone else's amusement
mircea_popescu: the reason there's nothing left there but crooks is precisely that the onl;y deal available is "i try to steal as much as i can, if you catch me you get it and i take
a vacation"
ascii_field: it will be replaced - question of ~when~, not ~if~ - by something like an oubliette with
a vending machine
☟︎☟︎ BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> do you basically mean that bitcoin can not be held without tools, whereas gold can, or at least to
a higher degree ? << At the time more physical possession of gold is different from possession of bitcoin
mircea_popescu: ie, it enforces
a "must be this tall to ride" limit rather than allowing people to delude themselves about it
mircea_popescu: do you basically mean that bitcoin can not be held without tools, whereas gold can, or at least to
a higher degree ?
BingoBoingo: Ah, I was refering to the need to get the keys or the coins, as in you can't take
a laptop "full of Bitcoin" and have seized the coins: "Bitcoin on the other hand demands not only mere physical possession, but actual control of
a set of keys necessary to transfer value. While gold is vulnerable to
a simple change of possession, Bitcoin requires
a more difficult but possible intellectual change of possession."
BingoBoingo: It isn't an actual property of Bitcoins. It is
a failing of the social structuring of the stupid.
BingoBoingo: It means that if you seize some bitcoin and send it immediately to herpity derp service they might turp their way into "returning it" out of some misguided notion of ownership. Gotta at least use
a solid mixer like BitBet
mircea_popescu: ascii_field
a magical toothpick works just as well for that purpose.
ascii_field: 8x8 non-scanned is practical. beyond that (e.g. graphical lcd) you now have
a scanning matrix!
mircea_popescu: how about getting
a picture of
a whole keyboard rather than
a key then
ascii_field: so, consider
a kaleidoscope. copper barrel, like victorian telescopes etc. eyepiece - glass, indium oxide (scavenge from old lcd; electrically conductive)
ascii_field: i will describe what is probably the cheapest way to make
a 'stealth keyboard' . but no one will like it.
ascii_field: punkman: there is no 'off the shelf' consumer appliance that will do
a lick of good here.
assbot: Logged on 24-06-2015 15:41:10; mircea_popescu: tho i suspect the cheapo plastic bump kbds are
a little quieter than the model ms
ascii_field: if getting the latter, find
a secondhand unit with missing or rotten battery, replace by yourself (100 to 200 usd, assemble the pack manually)
pete_dushenski: i'm sure he'll take
a megaton dump on that little canadian ebay toy
kakobrekla: i havent tried but it not impossible
a different cable would fix this
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: lol the window was probably
a few weeks. tops.
kakobrekla: perhaps
a ps2 isolatior or batter powered kboard
mircea_popescu: tho i suspect the cheapo plastic bump kbds are
a little quieter than the model ms
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 20-06-2015 18:18:35; asciilifeform: did i write here re: how
a keyboard (esp.
a decent 1980s 'ps/2' one) can be 'heard' from across the street ?
assbot: Logged on 20-06-2015 18:17:10; asciilifeform: (yet another reason to run on
a double-converter 'ups' or at least an isolator transformer!)
shinohai: When you forget to hire
a proofreader ....
mircea_popescu: basically, he is very bad at everything he attempts, and attempts
a lot of things at the same time.
mircea_popescu: finally, smoking in
a steamy room also sucks. both because wet tobacco and because the steam-smoke mixture is like... ew.
midnightmagic: sunglasses in the bath would work better if there was actual sunlight which made the sunglasses
a requirement
mircea_popescu: midnightmagic you know that theory that past
a certain level of stupidity the two are indistinguishable yes ?
midnightmagic: lol look at his post history. dude's
a deliberate troll man
Eulorian: donde puedo entrar porque entre
a una web que solo tenia archivos tar.gz
mircea_popescu: wife not being much of
a whore is
a little like husband not being much of
a soldier.
funkenstein_: despite his inability to adjust strategy, he has 1) identified
a common stupidity 2) taken action
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mircea_popescu: "With its subversive political allegory - including
a terrorist as the leading man - and clear-cut leftist sensibilities, V for Vendetta is the kind of movie that the conservative right will have
a field day with."
mircea_popescu: "Councillor Karen Danczuk, wife of Labour MP for Rochdale, Simon, has been tweeting selfies that show her cleavage. The 31-year-old councillor for Kingsway, who also runs
a deli with her husband, has uploaded photos of her cleavage in
a bikini and another of her bare legs."
mircea_popescu: cazalla aww i was looking for
a "as BingoBoingo said...". shame on 'em.
mircea_popescu: punkman1 i'm frankly surprised at the hefty chunk left in the 90 days range. i think that graph is bogus, and the real graph is
a lot more like f'(x) = f(x)^3.something, where we take probabilities as from 0 to 1.
mircea_popescu: at least
a coupla wrote to me to derp, back during the slashdot censorship days
mircea_popescu: how the fuck would she be
a movie star if she weren't ?
mod6: tomorrow i'm going to create
a new gentoo AMI with the stage3 from 20150610
mod6: although one thing in there allows for usage of arc4random (
a note for later maybe) but i left it unselected.
mod6: oh and during
a "manual" build, it pops up with
a ncurses config screen, i just used the defaults.
mod6: gotta re-run it. just
a sc.