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ben_vulpes: i have
a spike of
a pgptron comment engine but it's nothing serviceable for use
mircea_popescu: the only winning plan would be to make it mandatory for any woman that ever wrote or aspired to writing for any "social justice" outlet to spend the time she's got left until 30 as
a harem slave in the arab world.
mircea_popescu: how does he plan to win
a war of the omlette against the fork for the side of the omlette ?
trinque: mircea_popescu: rand is "not an isolationist" in his words, supports
a war against ISIS
mircea_popescu: <mats> last time they had
a real program was with the F-18 in the late 70s iirc << word.
pete_dushenski: ;;later tell mircea_popescu i agree on the header. i felt like
a change but it was kinda
a weird/unflattering choice. new one is up, fresh from zurich !
mats: "Indeed, the problem with all of this is that the F-35 is not bringing much to the picture which could not have been installed via upgrades in the older platforms, and thus the very length of generational separation from pilot access to these 'downloadable apps' equivalents to
a civilian iPad is distorting pilot perception of improvement when we -could- have
mats: once USG loses
a carrier or two the whole show will cascade, followed with binning of most of the sub fleet
mats: now they're being forced into working on the F-35 and JSF and its obv becoming
a boondoggle because they simply don't have the expertise for it
mats: last time they had
a real program was with the F-18 in the late 70s iirc
mats: we discussed the future of airframes in USN and he validated my suspicion that they'll be obsolete inside of
a decade (if not right now)
mats: i had an interesting discussion with
a project manager from general atomics
funkenstein_: ;;later tell pete_dushenski stop by lambada bar on langstrasse for me if you get
a chance
mircea_popescu: mats eh, this is just
a dog and pony show for young rand etc. what'll happen is the wh backe,d house vetted solution where the nsa doesn't keep the records, phone companies do, nsa just asks for what it needs.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: but no, what i want is dual rsa-cs for b-
a's dream-reimplementaton of pgp
mircea_popescu: is rsa 4096 bit
a guarantee you will have an n 4096 bits long (i think) or is it actually you will have two primes 2048 bits long each, with high bit set each.
Apocalyptic: and this is from
a very quick look at the gen_prime function,
a more thorough analysis may reveal something else
Apocalyptic: "there's no guarantee p and q have the same bitsize is there ?" // I think there is,
a couple of lines above it generates them both with nbits/2 bits, so I would say yes, unless there is
a bug in "generate_secret_prime", because this function specifically sets the two high bits to 1
☟︎ ascii_modem: mats: my current understanding is that the turd in gpg2 is
a malloc and doesn't leak phi. crashable bug though, & deserves closer look
gabriel_laddel: MP has asked that I 'get
a blog', and it is probably the proper format for detailing the sales / marketing strategy. If I decide to follow up on this thread I'll do so there.
gabriel_laddel: and you can sell computers preloaded without needig big investment, if you find
a niche where you can considerably improve their process << this is true.
gabriel_laddel: jurov: masamune is
a WIP source-only linux distro with
a sane set of defaults and 'scaffolding' for conducting research, business.
jurov: and you can sell computers preloaded without needig big investment, if you find
a niche where you can considerably improve their process
gabriel_laddel: Finishing that thought: supporting everything for everyone is simply too much work. Abandoning this seriously reduces the workload on one's organization. Of course, it remains to be seen the degree to which this is
a competitive advantage.
gabriel_laddel: with it. As such, their product ends up as
a label change from Windows/OSX to "phree1!" software. Impotence is boring, nobody cares.
gabriel_laddel:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=22-05-2015#1143981 << It seems to me that the question is, "why have people selling computers preloaded with their software failed (Apple does this, but their computers are braindamaged,
a failure by 'design')?" Interpretation: all companies in this space occupy
a position in "uncanny valley". If you look at e.g
☝︎ Apocalyptic: mircea, nah it breaks
a couple of things if you count it among primes, besides not satisfying the usual definition
Apocalyptic: mircea_popescu, re your last trilema article 1 is not
a prime number
mircea_popescu: yet they don't think 100 bucks / month is too low, or that apartments should go for > 10k
a pop.
gabriel_laddel: amazing - they have
a port city and two nuclear reactors
mircea_popescu: let income shave
a zero and real estate shave two, we can talk.
mircea_popescu: atm they're living in this lala-land where they're like,
a country.
mircea_popescu: and my next through was... and in order to get in,
a dude has to be in wot.
mircea_popescu: so i was all like man, ima buy
a garage and make
a fucking disco. own this town.
gabriel_laddel: if you end up in
a war for any reason, well... idk, tough
mircea_popescu: seems the sort of meta-prograsmming task for which lisp was invented anyway. keep your code as
a s-expr of the code you deliver.
☟︎ ben_vulpes: anyways, this is sort of
a 'club' for code. it'd never stop
a smart or determined attacker, but it renders the cost of the heist somewhat higher than i warrant many would pay.
mircea_popescu: then as
a licensee you DONT know what you need to transform to wipe the watermark, so you have to transform... "everything". which results in
a turd, which as he says, who the fuck will want that.
ben_vulpes: sure, if it's worth your time to resell the thing after writing
a transform for it...
mircea_popescu: and then just make
a hash and interpret it as bitflips over that list
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes he would maintain
a list of places where he can change things
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes he would just build
a list of things to change and change them all.
ben_vulpes: i may be insane but i think
a large fraction of the value in delivered code is that others can read and mod it.
gabriel_laddel: if some bastardized version of our shared bits shows up
a torrents site I can maintain your account with me accordingly
ben_vulpes: it verges on obfuscation, and at that point one may as well deliver
a binary for all the "fits in head"ness it'll have.
mircea_popescu: this is
a drastically degraded version ofthe code tho, i readily grant
mircea_popescu: but code being by its nature code, i have
a firm guarantee that i can wipe your watermark out.
mircea_popescu: before i leak it i just hash all entity names with
a "fuck gabby" salt
mircea_popescu: which may be more work than they're willing to put into it, but still, would kill your drm like it kills that stupid "sound security" thing we discussed
a coupla weeksa ago
mircea_popescu: of course you could use
a "32 char hash" convention for all your entities
mircea_popescu: name
a class HerpyClass in one version and Herpy_Class in another
mircea_popescu: the problem you have, however, is one of externalities. say
A, B and C are your customers, and yes for them giving your stuff away is -ev if you know about it.
mircea_popescu: this is also
a point. amusingly enough, trilema makes more money than the mean of web properties, notwithstanding the fact that it's enforced very laxily.
gabriel_laddel: The problem with the DRM crowd is that nothing they have is valuable enough for someone to give
a damn about maintaining the relationship.
gabriel_laddel: I don't know how to get
a hard guarantee, so don't. It becomes
a "state secret" sort of situation at that point.
gabriel_laddel: ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> ben_vulpes in particular it's unclear to me how wise the "licenses" angle is for
a serenissima derivative. while i declined to anull IP when diametric asked earlier, i am very very far from any sort of belief that the current model of that stack of stupidity has any sort of hope for survival. << i figured (perhaps stupi
☟︎ gabriel_laddel: trinque: what I'd do is try to land
a client that gives no shits about masamune, but needs something it can do << I plan on approaching both. But yes, to restrict oneself to those who Lisp is braindamaged - people who know nothing about computer programming notice when software works well and will happily pay for something that doesn't break, get h
gabriel_laddel: trinque: but come on, gimme
a sandboxed lisp-ish thing, let it grab text over sockets, draw pretty pictures on
a rectangle, done << hehe yep.
mircea_popescu: i think this is the best thing to do - get
a domain, have some lulz, let it drop, idiot "vultures" registe rit because WOW WAS USED!11 is VALUABLE!!1
cazalla: anyway speaking of domains.. if anyone wants bitcoinprivilege.com, it expires in
a few days and imma let it drop (had my fun)
trinque checks logs for
a netsplit or something
mircea_popescu: cazalla so tl;dr : ver scammed okcoin into paying for
a domain name, which is as we all know NEVER worth any money. okcoin got out of original depry phase after 3 months through eithry smarting up or running out of cash.
mircea_popescu: <mats> how is it possible this has escaped audit all this time << welcome to the wunderbar world of FOSS, aka
a chunk of raw meat in the sun, festering with
a million grub eyes
mats: 16:20:27 <+mircea_popescu> how goes mats ? << i'm taking
a two week vacation so it'll be on hold for
a bit
ben_vulpes: i'm like "
a long weekend! i can get some /work/ done!"
ben_vulpes:
a movie and
a beer is
a nice way to put my brain into idle for 3 hours but after that i don't really want to waste any more cycles on the pulp
ben_vulpes: have been derping at
a bit about mad max but i don't know if i'll ever poop it out
assbot: Logged on 20-05-2015 15:03:07; assbot: Logged on 20-05-2015 00:29:41; mod6: take
a look at this:
http://dpaste.com/0SQPBKC.txt Is there any reason when allocating the space for p & q to do Eulers totient they would initialize the space with 'p' and 'p', instead of 'p' & 'q'?
cazalla: no need for
a gpg contract either so now who knows if okcoin doctored up
a new contract or not
trinque: "The contract was signed between Mr. Ver and “OKCoin”, failing to detail the legal entity with which Mr. Ver entered into
a contractual agreement with." << hilarious
mircea_popescu: not every dislike is
a phobia. to say nothing of "insufficiently enthused tolerance"
trinque: I think in the best scenario, you've just got enough revenue to float an R&D department, and you stick
a few guys on it
jurov: it's
a bit complicated and i don't know how to make it better
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: same thing microsoft does. 'you have
a copy of my software, pay up'
ben_vulpes: it's
a fiat contract, not
a serenissima contract.
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> ben_vulpes in particular it's unclear to me how wise the "licenses" angle is for
a serenissima derivative. while i declined to anull IP when diametric asked earlier, i am very very far from any sort of belief that the current model of that stack of stupidity has any sort of hope for survival. << i figured (perhaps stupidly) that IP would take the form of gpg signatures on "i will not
funkenstein_: is there
a story to go with the triangle on the middle finger?
hanbot: looks like
a good heuristic of what factors to try first
mircea_popescu: let's try and count the types. first, there's two types with key 4.2. type T1.1 like 4.x and 10.x, which include
a central symmetry factor 2nd key ; type T1.2 like 6.x and 9.x which does not
trinque: right alongside
a bunch of competitors that are going to get brutalized by hackers
trinque: what I'd do is try to land
a client that gives no shits about masamune, but needs something it can do
trinque: "yeah I could see people buying this" is not
a sales strategy