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asciilifeform: 'How to Run Turing Machines on Encrypted Data.' Shafi Goldwasser & bunch other schmucks. << apparently impossibility proofs don't apply to some people !!
asciilifeform: can't wait for the first conviction
asciilifeform: aha, the genetic arm of the 'you will give all of your bits to usg not because hanging upside down over pirannha pit but because you are stupid and gullible' brigade.
asciilifeform: i personally can't be arsed to follow every single circus
asciilifeform: phf: any idea what concession they made ?
asciilifeform: it was some last-ditch 'any pr is good pr' gambit on the part of the sc4mz0rz ( (ex?) wife of sergey brin and co.)
asciilifeform: what was this
asciilifeform: iirc it did.
asciilifeform: and didn't the scam go bust since...?
asciilifeform: ancient lol
asciilifeform: (and i can't find any reason to disagree with this position)
asciilifeform: adlai: my guess would be that mircea_popescu regards machine-signing, even with a key kept around solely for that purpose, as a gravely sinful thing. but you might want to actually ask ~him~ when he wakes up
asciilifeform: adlai: remember the reactor rods?
asciilifeform: y'know, the one with menstrual cookies
asciilifeform: worthy addition to the pheminist cookbook
asciilifeform: (wu was a chick, incidentally)
asciilifeform: any serious business re: chirality begins with wu et al
asciilifeform: that was where schwarz began, iirc.
asciilifeform: ah yes.
asciilifeform: first such proof afaik.
asciilifeform: aha
asciilifeform: how's that
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=08-01-2015#970256 << see old threadz. ☝︎
asciilifeform: iirc he was once at sea for three whole days
asciilifeform: the first, biggest, best, third world!
asciilifeform: ugh
asciilifeform: but air must rise through it
asciilifeform: just 'hedgehog'
asciilifeform: no fan in these
asciilifeform: aha!
asciilifeform: eventually the rectifier melts.
asciilifeform: which is typically not available in a dome
asciilifeform: the heat sink, likewise, needs airflow
asciilifeform: punkman: the one downer is that none of the high-brightness (equiv. to 100+ W edison bulb) led lamps fit in a traditional glass dome designed for classic lamp
asciilifeform: or LED lamp, which doesn't explode, but just expensively dies
asciilifeform: fizziks doesn't lie!
asciilifeform: and look for the spectral lines.
asciilifeform: anyway whoever wants to know whether there is hg in his lamp, can buy... a toy prism
asciilifeform: iirc it's something like a cockcroft-walton 'ladder' in there
asciilifeform: neither, actually. they tend to be solid-state monstrosities
asciilifeform: the one with the coiled tube, chinese transformer, and cock that screws into standard edison socket
asciilifeform: look for hg in the traditional fluorescent lamp, incl. the 'craplamp' mircea_popescu was probably thinking of earlier
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what would hg be doing in a halogen lamp ?
asciilifeform: typically the cover is only a half-cylinder and frags get around it
asciilifeform: 'hot spot' effect ☟︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: halogen lamps routinely pop, for same reason as the fact that you can cut a glass bottle with a rope, some petrol, and a match
asciilifeform: and a tungsten filament, same as in normal light bulb.
asciilifeform: there is I and Br
asciilifeform: the long, narrow, yellow light thing that explodes
asciilifeform: oh for fucks sake there is no hg in a halogen tube !
asciilifeform: http://geoblog.rgo.ru/uploads/images/00/00/92/2012/03/07/df5d24.jpg << prisoner names scribbled in plank. all women. with birthdays
asciilifeform: http://geoblog.rgo.ru/uploads/images/00/00/92/2012/03/06/fe2885.jpg << 'these bootz are made for walkin'
asciilifeform: http://geoblog.rgo.ru/uploads/images/00/00/92/2012/01/26/d7e9b2.jpg << dafuq
asciilifeform: 3rg0n0m1c
asciilifeform: http://geoblog.rgo.ru/uploads/images/00/00/92/2012/01/08/869acc.jpg << rather
asciilifeform: http://geoblog.rgo.ru/blog/502.html << rails circa 1879.
asciilifeform: author notes 'also often found in chambers for smoking meat and fish.'
asciilifeform: wires with hooks for hanging meat, fish.
asciilifeform: larder.
asciilifeform: where
asciilifeform: http://geoblog.rgo.ru/uploads/images/00/00/92/2012/01/07/65afa2.jpg << locomotive brake cover. german, 1941.
asciilifeform: and yes.
asciilifeform: looking for, and sometimes finding, reasonably intact barracks, construction equip, various odds'n'ends of life
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: diggers
asciilifeform: engl.-speaking folks can enjoy 'i am the only literate for radius of ten thousand li'
asciilifeform: http://geoblog.rgo.ru/blog/502.html << have a bit of relaxing gulagiana.
asciilifeform: dafuq
asciilifeform: ah
asciilifeform: 2y is a long time for a pig, no ?
asciilifeform: because no thumbs
asciilifeform: rodents typically gotta use both paws to hold the food
asciilifeform: chipmunk has thumbs ?
asciilifeform: these creatures, it is said, can open doors.
asciilifeform: nein
asciilifeform: http://www.hemingwayhome.com/cats
asciilifeform: they still exist today, somewhere.
asciilifeform: mr h's most notable achievement was, iirc, having bred a breed of cat with opposable fingers
asciilifeform: the culinary folk have notions of art, no ?
asciilifeform: (most people know how digestion ends)
asciilifeform: as is dinner
asciilifeform: fucking is also fairly predictable..
asciilifeform saw derpitudes that nobody would believe if told.
asciilifeform awake for far too long
asciilifeform: you did, didntcha
asciilifeform: ah hm
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: most of the vt links are 'android' turds, vs winblowz
asciilifeform: if anybody here has a current vt subscription, i'd like the samples, thx
asciilifeform knows far more than any sane person would wish to re: vt, having sat on a $100K/y all-you-can-eat subscription for the latter
asciilifeform: and hit that addr
asciilifeform: eh vt will list anybody who walked the lan
asciilifeform: but who knows, somewhere, it awaits
asciilifeform: haven't seen it on a box in almost 20yrs
asciilifeform: turns out that game where you crushed billgates heads with penguin fist was not enough...
asciilifeform: turns out, exists! thx to poettering et al
asciilifeform: or >> https://github.com/kikinovak/matebuntu/blob/master/12.04/cleanmenu/desktop/sol.desktop << 'solitaire'
asciilifeform: i'd have loaded. this sorta nugget is worth having to douse a box in petrol
asciilifeform: ah, didn't actually load. ok
asciilifeform: the 498 bt
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: care to post the payload ?
asciilifeform: (and, if your lan is actually 192.168.* - possibly other box owned)