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mircea_popescu: btw re the entire satoshi thing : anyone ever considered it's maybe a homage to Satoshi Kanazawa ?
danielpbarron: "Charles, i feel your answer to be a rather virtiolic flame."
fluffypony: what can I say, I'm a juddist
asciilifeform: they, of course, would say 'we busted a sc4mz0r'
mircea_popescu: what's next, someone brings you half a hambuger and you pay half the price forone ?
mircea_popescu: wait, someone actually pays a college that doesn't complete the program ?
mircea_popescu: "The closure of a college often leaves students in limbo. Without being able to finish a degree, students must scramble to transfer and to figure out how to deal with the debt they have racked up."
ben_vulpes: last few lines of that article suggest there was a parole violation involved.
mircea_popescu: "hurting people's feelings", a "section 4a public order offence"
mircea_popescu: "Thew, of Radcliffe, Greater Manchester, admitted a Section 4A Public Order Offence (displaying writing or other visible representation with intention of causing harassment, alarm or distress) and was sentenced at Minshull Street Crown Court today."
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes saying they're behaving like a forumite scammer is being generous.
ben_vulpes: dude argentina has a negative willingness to pay?
ben_vulpes: ooh here's a fancy
mircea_popescu: anyway, srsly, it's a reaosnable attempt, go for it.
asciilifeform: mike_c: the other half of that thread was that i had serious doubts re: whether the service offered by mf inc. was actually economically possible as described, and ergo i might be a chump
asciilifeform: mike_c: the tale with the board house was simply a case of 'wunderwaffen' that did not fire to spec
mircea_popescu: yeah, you are a very very bad man.
asciilifeform: mike_c: understand, i cannot blame this particular vendor for the overall pace of the work - only self. (in particular, i am not clever enough to escape from having a fairly intense day job)
mike_c: this still seems promising to me. so new little shop had a bug in their order form. doesn't make them useless.
mircea_popescu: i know a little girl who is a princess.
asciilifeform: or ask around, futile, whether a hosting co. or manufacturing house somewhere might agree to take a little btc business
asciilifeform: this is why i always say that victory is far, that 'we' are small and 'they' are - stupid, yes - but gigantic. the entire s.nsa ipo would not have bought a proper pick'n'placer, not even talking about real estate to house it in a place which i could economically get to, etc.
mircea_popescu: also throws a monkey wrench in our guesswork.
mircea_popescu: but you don't need that. you merely need to be deemed by a major capital allocator worthy of the allocation.
mircea_popescu: it's not a simple matter of money, as money's not invariant over the cases we discuss.
asciilifeform: see, if i were the kind of fella who has money, would not have been having any of the problem described in this tale. would have either seen the boards made within a week (actual business relationship with factory, sleep ad libitum and fly in to supervise in person with own eyes) or would have a legit conveyor with requisite machinery in-house, and same
mircea_popescu: if you're in the 1% that did then as it does now, the fact that there's a further aspirational 19% added to the pot does not help you
mircea_popescu: "it takes us a second to do things that took a lifetime before - and they come with the guarantee of being something else entirely!"
mircea_popescu: as a result... a month later alf does not have his peas.
mircea_popescu: if the world was working as it did before computers, ascii would have been one of the few people with pen and paper, and wrote a description to one of the few people who made what he needed, and by virtue of that fewness they'd have actually been friends. the letter took a week to get there, the work took a week to be done, and so a month later alf has his peas or w/e he's needing for alchemy.
BingoBoingo: So, once you finalize a thing in their webapp you gotta sit on the page for a couple hours just to make sure the cache is sync'd or...
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i switched through a number of offered substitute parts, one of which may well have been this inductor-capacitor combo (erroneously offered as circuit-equivalent)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform is this factually true, that you had the wrong part in there for a while, then switched it out to the right part and ordered immediately ?
mircea_popescu: nobody trades anything with people without a wot.
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asciilifeform: i did notice weird side terminals on the caps, thought it was a manufacturing artifact.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the scope traces show a working rng, even.
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mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> because the morons think they can magic their own spew away when it turns embarrassing. << b-a logs will become the most interesting resource in not many years.
coinking: we can't just have a private convo on here?
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asciilifeform searches #b-a log for the discussion of this, for some reason cannot find
mats: so you can e.g. abuse auto-elevation behavior in COM (win7, 8) and use a save file dialog in paint as an elevated iexplore
mats: additionally, MS has indicated several times that 'UAC' is not actually a security boundary
asciilifeform: zeroing a file anywhere you don't have direct access to the blocks may leave the contents on the disk
mats: fun fact: zeroing a file in windows may actually leave the contents on the disk intact.
coinking: siness as a whole
coinking: I have a lot of good contact within crypto and have current and past clients as references. It's about perspective, the leads I bring as crypto enthusiasts yet building your social pages is never a bad move. It just depends on how much you think it's worth. It think long term it is something important in a business and has a direct impact on the bu
kakobrekla: well here is the thing, i am not paying a flat fee to someone to derp around on btc-poor social sites to gather 'likes', 'digs', 'twits' and 'impressions' which do not bring in bettors. but if you actually can bring in people with btc, use affiliate program to collect your reward.
coinking: oh maybe I was looking at a different one
nubbins`: bitbet has a twitter page?
coinking: ok cool, sure. I wanted to inquire about Content Management for BitBet - and if there was a want for Social Media Marketing & Management
asciilifeform: or even if you're writing something as mundane as a disassembler.
asciilifeform: and it is entirely non-negotiable if you're dealing with a hardware register where the bits have to fall -just so-
asciilifeform: on of the 1,001 ways in which 'c' specification is a sad joke.
asciilifeform: 'On Tuesday, March 10, 2015, the University of Maryland became aware of an email dated January 2014, 15 months ago. The vulgar language in the email expresses views that are reprehensible to our campus community. We immediately met with the individual involved and a University investigation is currently underway, led by the Office of Civil Rights and Sexual Misconduct. We are in contact with the University chapter of Kappa Sig
asciilifeform: the mechanism in question actually -needs- exercise once in a while, or rusts. hence the increasingly lulzy faux mega-outrages and their regularity
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asciilifeform: iirc it ended with something like a confession from whoever saw it that 'noose' was no noose at all, but a piece of garbage the wind carried
asciilifeform: (5 or so yrs ago, there was 'mass indignation', hastily-cooked mea culpas from virtually all organizations in any way connected with the campus, demonstrations 'of support' for 'the victims' - after a shred of rope was allegedly found hanging on a tree branch.)
mircea_popescu: it was quickly limited to a "first offense only" thing
mircea_popescu: and as a side note, that's how probation came to be : originally clerics (ie, university students y compris) could claim eclesiastic jurisdiction before they lay court, and be taken before their rector to be judged there.
mircea_popescu: "hey, that's exactly what should NOT be a value of yours, core or no core"
asciilifeform: there was perhaps a few shredded flaps of still-chromosomally-passable tissue when i was a student there, a decade ago.
mircea_popescu: the university of maryland is a fraud. those can't be the core values of an university.
asciilifeform: and yes, ultimate kbd ought to be something you can use with your hands in a sack (of conductive cloth naturally.)
asciilifeform: the 'tin hat' was always especially funny to folks who actually know a little physics, because parabolic antenna focused on brain.
mircea_popescu: just goes down a quarter inch or w/e,. into the air.
mircea_popescu: hence passive. it is still a radiator in my theoretical view of things, because it COULD
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: faraday cage is not (if correctly constructed) a radiating element at all
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform let's forget optical fibres for a second and consider this : on a standard keyboard, making a spoke portrude from each key so that from a width-long perspective each spoke is separated by any other is trivial mechanically. lighting one width and sticking a camera on the other width then resolves the problem,
chetty: ouch, worse than having a fan run while you sleep
mircea_popescu: make a sort of cyclotron in your living room, all electrons end up on the plate.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i was thinking btw, faraday cage is essentially a passive radiator element. what if made active ?
asciilifeform: shielding even a screen is nontrivial.
asciilifeform: (mice are easy - just pipe picture from the business end of standard optical mouse, hollowed out, into a remote cabinet to which its guts have been moved)
asciilifeform: (and it is also interesting to think about what actually happens on the mechanical contacts. 'key bounce' is not only an annoyance for engineers, but a gift to radiodiddlers, as each spring - and rubber domes not excepted - has characteristic wear)
chetty: so wrap you kbd in a faraday cage?
mircea_popescu: i was simply thinking a 2nd kbd with a rng tied to it closing circuits.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if about hypothetical purpose-built jammer - keyboard scan matrix in particular is a moving target, as the frequency of the telltale signal will vary considerably depending on which key(s) are pressed
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if asking about the 'second kbd controller as jammer' - the small physical differences (esp. in the quartz oscillator) add up to a distinguishable 'fingerprint' which lets enemy pull a particular kbd signal out of a room full of'em
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu: nor is a conventional jammer practical, because pressing keys results in shift of frequency of harmonics. this appears to be one of those cases where not shitting on the floor is considerably easier than mopping it up...
danielpbarron: Contrary to popular opinion within the false Christian world (2 Timothy 3:1-5 & 4:3), God is a Man, as Exodus 15:3 plainly declares. Not corruptible (Romans 1:23; 1 Corinthians 15:50), not created (Psalm 90:2), not a man who progressed and "achieved his exalted rank" as Mormons teach (see the report on Mormonism). But nonetheless, the Lord is a Man. He is a Man of war.
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danielpbarron: the author created fictional naratives between a person "evoltion" and an astonished inquisitor
nubbins`: yet another way to jack yourself off with self-importance: refer to "god" as a person
funkenstein_: perhaps a good day to link this blog http://wtfevolution.tumblr.com/
nubbins`: Stuart Duke, defending, said Thew had been an in-patient at a mental health unit and was still in prescription of anti-psychotic medicine, but Judge Lakin said his mental health was 'not a contributing factor'.
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thestringpuller: head DBA at first job was a huge 90's metal guy
Vexual: they also make up a larege part of your interface with your environment
thestringpuller: funkenstein_: a little. my nick is reference to the godfather. a terribly good movie.
Adlai: similarly to how gut bacteria play a larger role influencing personality than, say, the skin cells on the bottom of the foot - despite only the latter being 'human'
funkenstein_: morning string puller. you sound like a musician too :)
thestringpuller: you must like funk music with a name like that
funkenstein_: the small one is also visible with the naked eye but you need a darker place for viewing
Vexual: thats what im thinking, it's more of a philospohy of effects not described my empirical shit
Vexual: is there a fruitfly experiment or anything?
scoopbot: New post on Qntra.net by thestringpuller: http://qntra.net/2015/03/security-as-a-coffin/
mircea_popescu: (conversely, it's usually the case that you do require a trisomy or other polysomy to get the actual worst performance available - kids with such genetic defects are almost universally retarded and sterile)