asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i don't know of any reason to think that esr regrets turning; he probably regrets not taking sufficiently many 'pieces of silver'
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: mit dead tree press has been a sad circus, with 'privilege' on every catalogue page, and 'climate' in every other title, for many years.
asciilifeform: they stand ready to 'rescue' folks with hot lead.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the lulziest part is that this is OFFICIAL usg newspeak. e.g., police 'swat' tanks in my town have big fat RESCUE stencilled on the side
asciilifeform: learn basic 'mnemonism' if you have not already learned.
asciilifeform: also works. it is an intensely personal matter
asciilifeform: as for memorable passwords, i cannot possibly give any useful advice other than 'know more than one and preferably more than two languages'
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: if non-memorable, then just take favourite rng and encode output in such a way that it can be re-entered via a keyboard
asciilifeform: (i.e. does it need to be human-memorable?)
asciilifeform: at one point there was a notion of selling insurance per-mile☟︎
asciilifeform: and i live in the world scam capital.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i have yet to see this kind of thing alive.
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski, BingoBoingo: my understanding is that the tracking box is meant as a 'penal' thing for folks who had their rates go through the roof from chronically getting into wrecks - to try to get something like a sane price again
asciilifeform: there is a good case to be made that a pro hitman like mr horiuchi is a considerably less-loathesome creature than a gavin who lies for money
asciilifeform: btw, for the benefit of non-u.s. folk, i will explain that the missing piece in the 'why no public outrage then' puzzle is that most 'thinking' u.s. people reacted with 'if only the feds would burn EVERY fundamentalist loony church'
asciilifeform: 'The FBI’s theatrical professions of regret over Vicki’s death belied the fact that the battalion of combat-outfitted law enforcement personnel on the scene at Ruby Ridge celebrated the killing as a noble victory: With full knowledge that Mrs. Weaver was dead, they named their staging area “Camp Vicki,” and used a public address system to taunt Randy and his by pretending to speak on behalf of his dead wife.'
asciilifeform: 'Horiuchi’s comrades offered the same defense of the FBI sniper’s murderous actions at Ruby Ridge. By killing Vicki, he acted “to save lives,” insisted fellow FBI sniper Dale Monroe. Like the unnamed Iraqi woman, Vicki must be regarded as a hateful, irrational, marginally human creature who simply didn’t understand that when the Empire makes a proprietary claim on you and your family, it is not only a crime but a sin
asciilifeform: and prolly collecting a fat pension at this point
asciilifeform: lon horiuchi, for example, is a free man.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: at the moment the shoot-for-sport thing is entirely in the other direction.
asciilifeform: usa is, approximately, a safari preserve. yes, most of the inmates of the zoo will never be shot at, not directly. but every so often the keepers drive the jeep through the safari lands, shoot the most uppity beasts, sometimes invite friends for a sport hunt
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i recall that you were an aficionado
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i also learned that 'ti-92' is being sold by the bucketful on 'ebay', evidently it has fallen out of favour somewhere institutional
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: there are gigantic farms of folks toiling, reversing microshit's patches
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: microshit was never especially talkative re: exactly what was in the patches.
asciilifeform: i just finished the piece, it is a gem.
asciilifeform: http://www.sigsam.org/bulletin/articles/178/stoutemyer.pdf << again, for anyone who missed this, and is interested in 'derive' or 'mulisp'. this article was co-written by the authors of mulisp and derive! chock-full of implementation details and interesting lore. and yes, it is in pdf. and no, it cannot be represented in ascii. fuckyou buy a printer.
asciilifeform: KB3075249 Update that adds telemetry points to consent.exe in Windows 8.1 and Windows 7 << win
