pete_dushenski wonders if stan is more of a Vyuacheslav Savitskiy (cossack general turned silver screen star) or Aleksandr Voloshin (white army officer turned silver screen star)

pete_dushenski: "As in the great days of the Studio System, NSA's star male lead spent a lot of time loaned out to other studios this Spring. The critically panned "RSA In The Soup!" trilogy was just packaged recently, while filming for the Thermonuked Chicken Saga continues." << haha priceless

pete_dushenski: resulting in a very congenial, even convivial environs with which to get exactly nothing done

pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: that's a strong argument for axetime

pete_dushenski: and a photographer with a proper camera for a portrait shot

pete_dushenski: and a non-tumblr website.

pete_dushenski: cripes you'd think that 600k coins or whatever he embezzled would buy him a tutor.

pete_dushenski: "let's decentralise the parts of a human body so that it can be more efficient"

pete_dushenski: "One entity would be specialized in handling of coins. It would focus mostly on security, and could also offer processing for other things than exchanges (I’m thinking about Lightning, for example). Existing wallet services are probably in a good position to start working on this kind of solutions." << what a fucking retard. no spellcheck, no braincheck...

pete_dushenski: but if, say, biometric data is a pre-condition for coverage, that doesn't mean that the insurance company should be paying you to use it

pete_dushenski: it's not like your fatass heartrate is a monet

pete_dushenski: value being a very subjective thing when there's no scarcity or fungibility

pete_dushenski: ya, the dreads are a bit rasta eh

pete_dushenski: i've been doing some reading on this jaron lanier fellow, looking for an angle to roast him on for a blog post but i have to admit i'm at a loss

pete_dushenski: so if security is a matter of making attacks expensive, a dumbphone still trumps a smartphone

pete_dushenski: nubbins`: determining the position of a sim card.

pete_dushenski: "I would respond that if he has a SIM card in his phone, then the phone emits roaming signals which allow its position to be determined with surprisingly good accuracy by using multilateralization—measuring its relative signal strength at several of the surrounding cell phone towers." << doesn't this require 'stingray' ?

pete_dushenski: "So, for instance, if it turned out that Obama were indeed a space lizard (how embarrassing!) the administrator would simlply click on “conspiracy theories,” click on the checkbox next to “Obama is a space lizard,” and click “uninstall.”"

pete_dushenski: a neato

pete_dushenski: i'm in the market for a new modem. don't want to swallow whatever cisco garbage shaw cable provides

pete_dushenski: fuck, al-queda should've been a walk in the park by comparison.

pete_dushenski: isis is no more capable of being destroyed by the usa's excuse for a military than al-queda was

pete_dushenski: ements, because territorial authority is a requirement: take away its command of territory, and all those oaths of allegiance are no longer binding. Former pledges could of course continue to attack the West and behead their enemies, as freelancers. But the propaganda value of the caliphate would disappear, and with it the supposed religious duty to immigrate and serve it.

pete_dushenski: "One way to un-cast the Islamic State’s spell over its adherents would be to overpower it militarily and occupy the parts of Syria and Iraq now under caliphate rule. Al‑Qaeda is ineradicable because it can survive, cockroach-like, by going underground. The Islamic State cannot. If it loses its grip on its territory in Syria and Iraq, it will cease to be a caliphate. Caliphates cannot exist as underground mov

pete_dushenski: if another one of them has a wedding at the same time as $conference....

pete_dushenski: plus, when i was in romania, i was in sinaia, brasov, timisoara, and a few other places, not just danube :)