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mircea_popescu: http://www.erikasnydermakeup.com/about.html << she's now a "freelance make up artist" and none of the schmucks were ever heard from again.
mircea_popescu: except he gets nabbed for child pr0nz and perhaps underage rape. so organization goes back to schmuck #1, who now quits, because he had just married a stripper and "needs to spend time with his family", presumably servicing the black cock she's bringing home.
mircea_popescu: by the way, the history of the "national alliance" is one of the top keks in kook history. so, nazi-like thing created in the 70s by a physics prof. he died cca 2000. appointed successor some random schmuck, who managed to lose pretty much everyone's support over the ensuing decade. some other schmuck eventualy staged a coop. schmuck #1 declares fuhrerprinzip refuses to yield. most of the membership follows schmuck #2,
assbot: Logged on 10-06-2015 03:06:53; asciilifeform: eff lobbyist who tells us that 'wassenar is a done deal, all that can be done is to litigate some of the edges off'
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-06-2015#1158726 <<< yeah, the pact two lamers made to proclaim each other cool is "a done deal". one nobody cares about, shillatron efforts notwithstanding. ☝︎
mats: going to college is a privilege
decimation: some grunt who has done honest work surely outranks some ditz with a degree in english ☟︎
trinque: I spent a couple summers on air force bases in texas in the jrotc thing
mats: its a new, softer army
decimation: a pro mexican (or in your area salvadoran) framing team can frame a house in a day
decimation: ^ yeah they probably would do a shit job
decimation: they are a class that is privledged with construction
asciilifeform: mexicans - 'a-ok' ; soldiers - no ?
decimation: "The Marine Corps provided construction labor as a "military exercise."
mats: is a vigorous walk but still... always made me chuckle.
mats: get a 'walking profile' so you don't even hafta run the distance in fitness test.
decimation: I think they do a few weeks of basic
decimation: in the army 'warrant officer' is a specific rank
asciilifeform: (warrant officer, naturally, will never go near a war)
trinque: heh, I bet the locals would love a russian speaker around.
asciilifeform: decimation: the office next to mine at old work was inhabited by a russian fella. with rank of major.
decimation: asciilifeform: actually it would be interesting to be a russian speaker there
asciilifeform: mats: one time when i was out of work for many months, i applied to be a... sysadmin in afghan. but was rejected, with polite letter that 'you gotta already be in the army.' for some reason this was not stated in the wanted ad.
mats: i had a whopper this week and couldn't finish it
asciilifeform: decimation: being locked in a castle where quality food means 'burger king' sounds like my mental picture of jail
decimation: asciilifeform: if stuck on base, you got a burger king, they are apparently universal
trinque: what's a social institution that works for this?
mats: got a lot of college courses and personal projects done in my downtime
decimation: unless you minimize your time there to become a patent lawyer
mats: so what i'm hearing is i should apply to be a clerk at the patent office
decimation: asciilifeform: that sounds like a nice life, as long as you can work on what you want and aren't bothered by paperwork
decimation: "The simplest way to explain the behavior of any bureaucratic organization is to assume that it is controlled by a cabal of its enemies. "
asciilifeform: good job for someone who doesn't give half a flying fuck about work.
decimation: one can hardly raise a family in the wash dc area for $80k
asciilifeform: so long as the thing you like to do can be done in front of a computer in a converted broom closet - you're in heaven.
asciilifeform: having worked in a very obscure usg bureaucracy (one of the many army labs) i will say this - it is a kind of valhalla for folks with own projects / ideas. not because anyone will support these (smoke less crack) but because there is virtually no accountability, management, or actual task
trinque: not that insane to collect a good check and be relatively certain of life ☟︎
asciilifeform: no one ever talks about the 'up side' of being a bureaucrat, but i think it is necessary. otherwise you are stuck believing that these people are clinically insane (they are not.) ☟︎
decimation: "Very low quality workforce overall. At times NSA employment feels like welfare for ex-military who couldn't get better jobs. Moreover, because there are too many employees, we cannot reward the highest performers with a reasonable salary."
decimation: "cons: Process and management inhibit mission. Pay does not match market (as low as 60% of what you can get as a contractor)." ☟︎
decimation: doesn't sound like a sinecure to me
trinque: nobody ever connects a flash drive at the weapons installations
decimation: lol it might be worth making a burner identity to read these reviews
trinque: about in line with working at a middling software company in portland
decimation: asciilifeform: what good can come from a congressman looking into secret stuff?
decimation: asciilifeform: nah, too hot of a potato
asciilifeform: mats: he's a lawyer.
asciilifeform: my own personal picture of him is, he isn't 'ideological' usg, but rather a fella who quit a promising academic career to turn soldier, and went half-deaf in afghan, along with devil knows what else; but was then rewarded with lucrative bureaucrat post. he won't be giving it up.
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asciilifeform: herr handle works, well, you know where, https://handleshaus.wordpress.com/2014/01/04/a-fifth-column-in-every-pot/#comment-2056
asciilifeform has met ^ alive a few times
asciilifeform: decimation: no one gives half a damn what orcs do
decimation: asciilifeform: as I said, many catch a bullet in baltimore every day, nobody gives a shit
asciilifeform: eff lobbyist who tells us that 'wassenar is a done deal, all that can be done is to litigate some of the edges off' ☟︎
asciilifeform: galperin was a very sad case
asciilifeform: (in a car)
asciilifeform: i personally wish him a long life and many successes.
mod6: Switched over to gentoo hardened with uclibc on amazon to see if we can get a build of v0.5.3.1-RELEASE, and if so, hopfully get some profiling going here. This is what I'm workin with: http://dpaste.com/0B1CXQ8.txt
asciilifeform: 'Ивану за атаку - хуй в сраку. А Маньке за пизду - Красную Звезду.' << related. 'ivan led the attack, got a cock in his back. masha's twat went far, got her a red star.' ( http://ordenrf.ru/upload/nagrady/orden-krasnoy-zvezdy-3-a.jpg )
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the full form actually is, "vrabia malai viseaza si lenesul praznic" (and the lazy man, a saint's day feast). sorta reminiscent of your drowned boy.
asciilifeform: the proximate goal of wassenar etc. is not to jail academics (though the 'chilling effect' is a bonus for usg) but to herd the legit multinational corps who mine winblows 0days (e.g., 'vupen') and sell on market, into usg banners.
asciilifeform: use of linux/bsd is a legal nsa 'selector.' this is publicly known by now. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: that's a point.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: the only thing usg likes more than chump running winblows is a chump who thinks he isn't, but is.
asciilifeform: 'want a vga card? run usg blobs. get on your knees, ready to please.'
asciilifeform: it is also not a secret what they are pushing as 'wrong technology.'
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: afaik no lizard is a serious matter in agriculture. which would be why.
asciilifeform: which means that legislatures do not get to discuss it as a yes/no
asciilifeform: interestingly, it is not even a treaty in the formal sense
asciilifeform: incidentally, the au thing is more interesting than seems on the surface, because came directly out of 'wassenar agreement', a usg imposition on its entire colonial domain
mircea_popescu: you had a nitrocellulose disk in there or what
asciilifeform: it bothers me that i am at a loss as to how this could even physically happen
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: 5v to gnd is a dead short.
BingoBoingo: * asciilifeform in a somewhat more sour mood than usual, on account of floppy drive in 486 having caught fire << This is tragedy actual floppy drives that haven't been run to shit or decayed on their own are increasingly rare
assbot: Logged on 09-06-2015 23:36:58; jurov: "You will be coming to us and we will be working with you," a DECO officer recently explained to academics. "When your ideas aren't necessarily that formed, it may be that we say to you, 'Look, at the moment we don't see any concern, come back to us at a further stage'."
asciilifeform in a somewhat more sour mood than usual, on account of floppy drive in 486 having caught fire
mircea_popescu: 50k hsbc employees worked on wall street ? gimme a break.
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: in your own country a fella just sat down for 3 yrs for having turned up with a bag of benjies.
asciilifeform: at the cost of now having to guard a suitcase of plutonium
asciilifeform: to roughly compare, this wouldn't be an airplane, just a pogo stick that lets you jump a few metres.
asciilifeform: if i were to obtain (fell out of airplane, aha) a crate full of benjies, it would do exactly zero for my situation. ☟︎
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: it isn't a lack-of-broker problem, but an i-live-on-usg-scrip problem
pete_dushenski: it seems that your lack of a meatspace broker is requiring expenses to be out-of-pocket
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform as you've mentioned many a time, but in turn you're given stocks and options of some value
trinque: and there is no such thing as something without a cost
shinohai: I am not saying there is anything wrong with free (Debian for example). Just that if you want a different product with extended features, those cost $ to develop/
assbot: Logged on 10-06-2015 00:03:52; trinque: pete_dushenski: ftr the foundation's funded by a tax
pete_dushenski: which is a different consideration entirely.
trinque: pete_dushenski: ftr the foundation's funded by a tax ☟︎
assbot: Logged on 09-06-2015 23:36:58; jurov: "You will be coming to us and we will be working with you," a DECO officer recently explained to academics. "When your ideas aren't necessarily that formed, it may be that we say to you, 'Look, at the moment we don't see any concern, come back to us at a further stage'."
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-06-2015#1158532 << i've said it before, and will say it again - au is a usg-owned zoolag where they try out new and bleeding-edge idiocies ☝︎☟︎
pete_dushenski: trinque so what should the b-a foundation's bitcoind cost to download ?
pete_dushenski: 2 minutes seemed like a large gap.
mats: fun fact: You can resolve kernel module addresses on Windows by looking at the session image list, which is linked to from a fixed VA.
jurov: "You will be coming to us and we will be working with you," a DECO officer recently explained to academics. "When your ideas aren't necessarily that formed, it may be that we say to you, 'Look, at the moment we don't see any concern, come back to us at a further stage'." ☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: 'Also the JPEG2000 parsing is done within a try-catch that catches all exception. This would allow an attacker to bruteforce his/her way to successful exploitation as the vprintproxy.exe would stay alive even through access violations.' << ahahahahaha.
asciilifeform: 'When extracting a TrueType font from the EMFSPOOL file, TPView.dll will verify the checksum of the font prior to further processing. To do so, it will walk the tables, zero out the padding at the end of a table and checksum the table. In doing so, it will trust the ‘offset’ field of the table record and add it to a pointer to the font buffer. While there is a check to make sure that we don’t go past the end of the font,
asciilifeform: 'The program performs unsafe 32-bit arithmetic, leading to an invalid size check prior to a memcpy() operation, leading to a heap overflow.' << can we plz haz shitgnomes playing 'underhanded c contest' prior to employment? these old idiocies are getting - well - old.
asciilifeform: mats: and 'formally proven' properties of generic c - what a lol
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