asciilifeform: shinohai: 'i heard that ivan won a car in the lotto.' 'yes! but not ivan but piotr, not a car but an overcoat, not in lotto but at cards, and not won but lost'☟︎☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: afaik no one has ever artificially caused a flood to claim flood insurance
asciilifeform: aha which is why 'flood insurance' is the domain of usg
asciilifeform: afaik, offering a guarantee against ddosing is cost-prohibitive. and insuring against ddos is 'moral hazard' as one can ddos self without leaving evidence.
asciilifeform: if my house got routinely 'ddosed' (e.g. the classic dump-gravel-in-his-road trick) again and again, may very well be reduced to living in a car.
asciilifeform: if indeed this is a problem that merely needs 'will' to solve, and no technical improvements, i might simply be lacking the necessary lsd to grasp it.
asciilifeform: i get it, 'stfu about the line of german pillboxes already, you're demoralizing the men'
asciilifeform: the mega-special love for the motherland ?
asciilifeform: what i was asking is, what is to distinguish this new, magical and heroic hoster from the 1,000,001 existing ones?
asciilifeform: hosting market is full of folks who didn't 'stupidly wait for x before y' and 'just did it.' but it seems like their offerings are not cutting it ?
asciilifeform: so the client list would be: mircea_popescu
asciilifeform: it would have to cost an order of magnitude more than conventional hoster
asciilifeform: i mean i get it, mircea_popescu is stalin and не шагу назад and human wave attacks do have merit and occasionally do the job. but the kind of thing proposed here is inherently not a 'mass' product.
asciilifeform: whatever happened to the old-fashioned 'bulletproof spam hosting' types ?
asciilifeform: kakobrekla, mircea_popescu: right now it looks rather like a 'die for the motherland!' sorta investment. hence no takerz.
asciilifeform: hence the octopus. but without some physical discouragement, they will simply take the legs of the octopus one by one.
asciilifeform: even the knife, i think, has a place in this. i.e. a dc where an actual wot member lives, with a rifle, would be an improvement over the present-day state of the art
asciilifeform: the answer is gossipd. or, in the short term, an 'octopus' topology with server(s) behind ciphered lines connected to a constellation of private exit proxies, similar to (iirc) what was used in mpex.
asciilifeform: 'boojum' is not a devil to be worshipped, but an engineering problem, like, e.g., resistive loss in power line
asciilifeform: 'Yasuomi Hirai, 28, allegedly hid in a drain under a Kobe, Japan sidewalk grate to peep up the skirts of women as they stepped over. "His hair got caught at the edge of the grate, which drew the attention of some pedestrians," a Hyogo prefectural police officer told AFP. Hirai has been arrested previously for the same offense. According to police, Hirai told them that he wants to be reincarnated as "part of pavement in the nex
asciilifeform does not know what happens in the head of the moo, can only conjecture
asciilifeform: well, my guess re: the propaganda is that it was meant to counter the moo notion that 'oh i'm doomed to get it anyway from mosquito, may as well share heroin syringe'
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=18-11-2015#1326110 << if 'mosquito bites, swimming, sneezing, saliva or sweat' has any measurable ability to move the virus, southeast usa would look like pripyat. with wash,.d.c. and baltimore resembling the reactor zone. and known sufferers would be imprisoned in designated leprosoria.☝︎
asciilifeform: i'd say 'cheap' but it isn't even cheap.
asciilifeform: i've thought about leasing a colo personally, simply out of frustration, but i live in pretty much the worst spot for it.
asciilifeform: if the observation is mistaken, say how
asciilifeform: i.e. a geographic concentration suitable for enemy to pincer and destroy
asciilifeform: but the basic boojum is described in one of mircea_popescu's own articles: a datacenter is 'a fortress'
asciilifeform: well yes, 'building' in the sense that stalin built
asciilifeform: waitasec, i thought mircea_popescu was building the 'useful host' thing
asciilifeform: ch, so you did. You were not told to grieve for the Russians, and so you didn't. Don't feel bad; you are just following orders. The reasoning behind these orders is transparent: the French, along with the rest of the EU, are Washington's willing puppets; therefore, they are innocent, and when they get killed, it's a tragedy. But the Russians are not Washington's willing puppet, and are not innocent, and so when they get killed
asciilifeform: 'Note that after the Russian jet crashed in the Sinai there weren't all that many Facebook avatars with the Russian flag pasted over them, and hardly any candlelight vigils or piles of wreaths and flowers in various Western capitals. I even detected a whiff of smug satisfaction that the Russians got their comeuppance for stepping out of line in Syria. Why the difference in reaction? Simple: you were told to grieve for the Fren
asciilifeform goes back to the pressurized bathyscaph where this doesn't exist
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu where did you unearth this zoo ?
asciilifeform: 'Rioting. does it actually effect change? / Male Privilege and Female Stigma / Is the Justice System Failing? / Obligation to shave legs and one's choice of hoisery. / Trigger Warnings - Courtesy or Avoidance? / "Owning" E-books / Gender and Sexuality Shaming at its Worst'
