asciilifeform: the idiots have an impenetrable armour plate

asciilifeform: i tried this often, but was never really good at it.

asciilifeform: and if not this, then i prolly don't even rightfully apprehend what mircea_popescu had in mind

asciilifeform: http://www.loper-os.org/?p=42&cpage=2#comment-3385

asciilifeform: e.g., http://www.loper-os.org/?p=42&cpage=2#comment-3256 , whole thread?

asciilifeform: http://www.loper-os.org/?p=374

asciilifeform: and those of sequel

asciilifeform: and did 'go for jugular' on quite a few, see comments ?

asciilifeform: Thursday June 25 2009.

asciilifeform: my www gets surprising traffic, naturally to no apparently useful end

asciilifeform: http://www.loper-os.org/?p=42&cpage=2#comment-17596 << lulzy

asciilifeform: aha

asciilifeform: (might have to click page to see it)

asciilifeform: most recent comment- a few days ago.

asciilifeform: 2009.

asciilifeform: '09 - present.

asciilifeform: still drawing in livid idiots

asciilifeform: old crud

asciilifeform: immortal thread.

asciilifeform: see, e.g., http://www.loper-os.org/?p=42#comments

asciilifeform: mine. for YEARS.

asciilifeform: l0l!

asciilifeform: yes, a small reactor...

asciilifeform: but this latter thing exists in the way nuke power existed in '44.

asciilifeform: now this, yes!

asciilifeform: !s harrison bergeron

asciilifeform: yeah yeah nietzsche whatever

asciilifeform: but also 'find the children worth rescuing from the shitpits'

asciilifeform: aha.

asciilifeform: a difficult, thankless job, that is becoming usg-illegal, for decades , slowly

asciilifeform: thing is, they actually do a job.

asciilifeform: not these.

asciilifeform: most lysenkos spam aggressively tho

asciilifeform: ~because~ : computer - NEVER HAPPEND there.

asciilifeform: than, e.g., 'raven's progressive matrices'

asciilifeform: it is in some respects easier to find nsa material

asciilifeform: (of test-makers)

asciilifeform: incidentally, do you have any idea how idiotically SECRETIVE the community is ?

asciilifeform: got absolutely nowhere.

asciilifeform: i once spent several months trying to devise a machine-generatable test that ~could~.

asciilifeform: !s eysenck

asciilifeform: it isn't a breakage. iq does not test the 'rng' (eysenck's 'psychoticism')

asciilifeform: nope.

asciilifeform: like trained dog.

asciilifeform: calendar-savant IS stupid.

asciilifeform: aha

asciilifeform: which is what it was built for.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'iq' WORKS for identifying stupidity ☟︎

asciilifeform: and in the latter case - don't

asciilifeform: we do.

asciilifeform: that was actually my point

asciilifeform: computer, as i like to point out, very much is a boeing with feathers.

asciilifeform: the feathers, if you will, from the boeing.

asciilifeform: i would say that we ~understand~ a thing if we can fully separate the ~accidental~ complexity of it from the ~essential~.

asciilifeform: but do we understand flight?

asciilifeform: aha

asciilifeform: (none, e.g., can find air currents & glide)

asciilifeform: nobody's built a mechanical bird (ornithopter) worth half a shit yet.

asciilifeform: consider airplane

asciilifeform: !s natural stupidity

asciilifeform: aha.

asciilifeform: but the 'brain learns' thing is pure nonexplanatory obscuratronium.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: lsd is ~very~ unstable unless dry crystal kept in the dark. hence why it did not work out as chemical weapon.

asciilifeform: thestringpuller: see also: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=02-11-2015#1314087 ☝︎

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: bottle at room temp for few hrs != city water tower (which has cl, etc)

asciilifeform: mats: degrades QUICKLY in water.

asciilifeform: it is likely that no more than a dozen litres of lsd ever EXISTED on planet3.

asciilifeform: whole thing is idiotic.

asciilifeform: milligram is 'elephant's dose.'

asciilifeform: or how many hectares of wheat need to be ergoted to make so much as ONE 'drum of pure lsd'

asciilifeform: srsly

asciilifeform: consider volume occupied by '50 yrs of rations'

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-03-2016#1428130 << which ☝︎

asciilifeform: snore.

asciilifeform: !s armstrong

asciilifeform: who's armstrong?

asciilifeform: ok now i really gotta check my terminal

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-03-2016#1428097 << waiwut?! ☝︎

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-03-2016#1428097 << waiwut?! ☝︎

asciilifeform: 'The cracker is built out of surplus Grass Valley HD video transform boards, scrapped by GV because of defects. A useful tool was developed to assist the board reverse-engineering effort.'

asciilifeform: 'NSA@home is a fast FPGA-based SHA-1 and MD5 bruteforce cracker. It is capable of searching the full 8-character keyspace (from a 64-character set) in about a day in the current configuration for 800 hashes concurrently, using about 240W of power. This performance is equivalent to over 1500 Athlon FX-60 CPUs, which would take about 250kW.'

asciilifeform: ^ spiffy.

asciilifeform: !s http://nsa.unaligned.org

asciilifeform: (summary: article elementarily demonstrates that a hash of the sha1 type could be designed with trapdoor. and then argues nonsensically that we 'know' there could have been none such.)

asciilifeform: !s so room would be empty

asciilifeform: Just before SHA-1, NSA designed SHA-0, for which weaknesses were quickly identified by the research community ... ... [claptrap snipped]'

asciilifeform: ... The original SHA-1 constants are “nothing-up-my-sleeve-numbers“, derived from the binary representation of the square roots of 2, 3, 5 and 10 ...

asciilifeform: 'Did NSA use this trick when creating SHA-1 in 1995? We believe this is unlikely, for

asciilifeform: ^ lulzy oldie

asciilifeform: https://malicioussha1.github.io

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-03-2016#1428076 << cheap hoax ☝︎

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-03-2016#1428075 << it stems from no-alternative. ☝︎

asciilifeform: ^ to continue the 'no place to sell 0days' thread

asciilifeform: http://www.anandpraka.sh/2016/03/how-i-could-have-hacked-your-facebook.html << lulz

asciilifeform: fat lotta good it did.

asciilifeform: i got the memo when i was 5 y.o.

asciilifeform: and is discussed in some depth on my www.

asciilifeform: elsewhere this process is known as 'deskilling'

asciilifeform: no industrial giant remotely contemplated funding the other kind of chess (and there ~was~ work, as recently as early '80s)

asciilifeform: likewise chess