asciilifeform: they are partly so that local police precincts can join the party, partly to administer off-the-record rootkit installations, and partly for usg to circumvent own red tape ('parallel construct')
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-12-2015#1345740 << at this point even children in zimbabwe likely know that not only does usg record every phone call in nato reich, but has been doing so since hdd platter cost fell to where it was economically feasible. but the portable mitm gadgets are for something else☝︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this is mighty spiffy
asciilifeform: 'Han is sorrow caused by heavy suffering, injustice or persecution, a dull lingering ache in the soul. It is a blend of lifelong sorrow and resentment, neither more powerful than the other. Han is imbued with resignation, bitter acceptance and a grim determination to wait until vengeance can at last be achieved.'
asciilifeform: 'Han denotes a collective feeling of oppression and isolation in the face of insurmountable odds (the overcoming of which is beyond the nation's capabilities on its own). It connotes aspects of lament and unavenged injustice.'
asciilifeform: incidentally, do you know why nk survived the destruction of su ?
asciilifeform: as a zone of genuine absence of lizard hitler in all of his manifestations, it was proclaimed 'must die' long ago.
asciilifeform: nk was a successful exporter of heavy machinery prior to usg proclaiming it excommunicated and anyone trading with it likewise excommunicated from the mother church☟︎
asciilifeform: in the old dayz, nk was ~the~ industrial korea
asciilifeform: anyway the nk to go to is prolly the pre-1980 one. which is approx. when the 'internashinal komyoooooniti' blockade started turning it into what it is now.☟︎
asciilifeform: nubbins`: didja ever go to nk? or only to the nato muppet kr ?
asciilifeform: obligatory, 'i won't want to achieve immortality through my work; i want to achieve immortality through not dying' (woody allen)
asciilifeform: i see no particular diff b/w this and 'die for the motherland to build bright komyooonist fyootoor'
asciilifeform: starve.' << how does this differ from mircea_popescu's classical prescription 'go shoot a policeman' ?
asciilifeform: '...Just as long as the factories kept going up, it made no difference whatsoever they'd work for a different set of people than the set building them.... You know, "abstract principles" such as the notion that if you take half a million tons of grain's worth of labour out of some people to do something, that something they do at your behest will return them at the very least half a million tons of grain so they don't fucking
asciilifeform: they didn't do it, they just fell down and the cock went in
asciilifeform: 'Strictly the only difference between Argentina and Soviet Romania isn't that the Argentines "did it to themselves" while the Russkis did it to the poor Romanians (always there guarding the West from the barbarians so the French could build their cathedrals bla bla)' << l0l
asciilifeform: that comes with ALL mainstream linuxen
asciilifeform: actually the above is conventional wisdom but might well be false:
asciilifeform: but illustrative of the 'open sores' thing in general.
asciilifeform: not all that interesting to a literate person, considering how it involves the 'can walk away with the machine' sort of enemy
asciilifeform: 'A vulnerability in Grub2 has been found. Versions from 1.98 (December, 2009) to 2.02 (December, 2015) are affected. The vulnerability can be exploited under certain circumstances, allowing local attackers to bypass any kind of authentication (plain or hashed passwords). And so, the attacker may take control of the computer.'
