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decimation: apparently nobody in usg gives a shit
decimation: "Generals and others have been known to become so frustrated with the existing devices that they switch to personal cellphones to conduct classified conversations, according to a former U.S. official."
asciilifeform: who wants to be the first to buy a certified pre-owned (tm) ru nuke sub as mr buffett ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: usg does not care (or even encourages, see earlier 'house-buying' postdoc story) about a plebe impersonating another plebe.
asciilifeform: not even a secret of any kind
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: it is a traditional algorithm for crafting fake people for official uses
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i think this is the best proof possible that current usg does not expect to survive more than a few years into the future anyway.
asciilifeform: and for all of fiddybucks, a name, mailing addr., work history, political party, to go with it.
mircea_popescu: this sounds a lot like getting used skin to live in.
mircea_popescu: so basically, by pulling a ssn out of my arse i have just about 1:2 odds of hitting someone
gribble: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pillow+pants | pillow pants. Pussy Troll. The parents place it in their daughter pussy. If a penis trys entering the pussy before the age of 21 then the Pussy Troll will bite it off.
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: for keymaker - a smashingly great concept.
decimation: ah, yes, the author of gpg is a ham http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dd9jn
decimation: or similarly, it is unthinkable that a non-usg-approved-bank would issue credit or bank
assbot: Loper OS » A Country of Which Nothing is Known but the Name. ... ( http://bit.ly/1DEFVkM )
asciilifeform: but the notion that commercial identity can exist outside of a key - is a work of the beast.
asciilifeform: just the notion that 'you are a key'
decimation: asciilifeform: the reason given against crypto is that the masses would reject a 'universal id' card
asciilifeform: it is a deliberate and planned act
asciilifeform: the fiat world's refusal to use modern crypto exclusively is not a mistake, not an accident, not sloth
decimation: mircea_popescu: it's a lulzy recycling program - in the past, us ssn's were assigned by geographical region
asciilifeform: a cheapo soldering station, etc.
mircea_popescu: "What is Social Security Number (SSN) Randomization? The project is a forward looking initiative of the Social Security Administration (SSA) to help protect the integrity of the SSN by establishing a new randomized assignment methodology. SSN Randomization will also extend the longevity of the nine-digit SSN nationwide." ☟︎
asciilifeform: a number of common household tools in the photo
decimation: asciilifeform: look in the corner of his computer room - looks like a radio transmitter above his o-scope
asciilifeform: (in most u.s. states, paying even a penny - glues it to you permanently)
decimation: asciilifeform: right, the banks don't give a shit because 1.) they generally don't get stuck with the bill and 2.) when they do, usg prints them up some bezzlars
asciilifeform: they caught the woman, eventually, and there was some penalty (a light one, iirc) but it did not send the creditors back to the holes they crawled out of
asciilifeform once worked with a nearly-penniless foreign postdoc whose departure from usa was hastened by some bureaucrat (who handled his papers) deciding to... buy a house in his name ☟︎
asciilifeform: checking << known to everyone you ever write a cheque to...
asciilifeform: a... 24 bit? secret
asciilifeform: usg sees this as a civil service!
asciilifeform: and, depending on your credit rating, buy a 'boeing' with no questions asked.
decimation: the bigger issue is the fact that you have to keep your social security number a 'secret'
decimation: they said they would send a special email later when they "figure out" if I am affected or not
danielpbarron: idk if it'll work yet but i have a bitcoind
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mircea_popescu: !rate lobbes 1 Well... he did teach himself how to view a directory...
danielpbarron: i will soon be testing a non-bastard one that i compiled myself
ben_vulpes: danielpbarron: do you have a wedged portatron?
mircea_popescu: "dear sheep. we lost your mother. we paid off the government agent for a fix. the fix is in. fuck you."
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: 'process man' << 'Well a process man am I and I'm tellin' you no lie / I work and breathe among the fumes that tread across the sky...'
mircea_popescu: well i've not got a wedged one
mod6: maybe it's not a diddled 168,000 block
mircea_popescu: a diddled 168`001 block, not even nearly so much.
mircea_popescu: mod6 yes but see, a 168`000 diddled block is a huge issue, because checkpoint.
ben_vulpes: what was the story with a certain version of ssl breaking some kinds of btc signatures?
mircea_popescu: mod6 a remote possibility was that your problem somehow came from a bad block, tho i have/had no idea wtf that'd be
mod6: take a look at this other test i ran today with /just/ v0.5.3 basecode: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=9U2VHnRx
mircea_popescu: because they had to spend their time instead discussing how young men should wear a tie.
mircea_popescu: see, they had 30 years locked up, and AS A CONDITION OF THIS LOCK UP they couldn't market it.
mircea_popescu: trinque: you want to build your visa? build it on bitcoin, but don't systemd the thing and decide it must have a visa built in << that's not a bnad angle.
assbot: Logged on 05-02-2015 23:51:15; mircea_popescu: "The one great example is IBM, which faced disruption and existential threat from PCs in the early 1990s and emerged stronger and is still a thriving company. "
mircea_popescu: " My face is in my hands and I wonder how anyone could be asked to raise a girl in such a world? Recently a female cardiologist with a "difficult" 10 year old daughter who had been well trained to want things but not control things asked me if I had read "the study in the New York Times"-- !?!?!?!?!?-- that said that people with the same surname, over generations, continued to achieve the same level of wealth, showing
ben_vulpes: i also kicked around a design for a nifty reciprocal engine where the piston was really just a magnet-bearing shuttle zipping back and forth through coils for insta-ac
decimation: mircea_popescu: lol he goes on: "It's probably unnecessary to point out that this increase in lifestyle is built on the increased work product of whoever will do it for 30 cents an hour, and anyway it is a red herring. The real attraction for us isn't just the lifestyle, but that it systematizes-- it makes normal-- not ever wondering: how come we have more lifestyle when we didn't do more work? "
mircea_popescu: i never was that cool as a boy.
kanzure: asciilifeform: also.. we should run a (human) selective breeding program for cryoresuscitation-compatibility.
ben_vulpes: a reheater
ben_vulpes: a fucking waste oil furnace
ben_vulpes: impossible's more a function of available time/energy anyways. not an absolute thing.
ben_vulpes: assuming he's not a plant, that is
kanzure: microelectronics vlsi doesn't require millions (well.. i mean.. not to make a single chip)
asciilifeform: kanzure: one could come to a worse fate than 'millions of pages of documentation'
asciilifeform: kanzure: assuming you just want linear motion of fluids - you should be able to get what you want from a sheet of glass. etch with co2 laser or hf.
mircea_popescu: kanzure alf spent i dunno, a year or os ? trying to build essentially a pick n place / fab lab for cardano
kanzure: asciilifeform: i have various parts laying around for homefab of microelectronics (on the order of a few hundred microns but whatever)
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: otr/'forward secrecy' is simply the practice of generating an ephemeral key for a particular conversation, which is to be discarded later
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: "because the joo's a lazy reader." << pardon?
cazalla: mircea_popescu, i dunno, i guess i'll look into it more and see who he is, really only had a laff and moved on
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo can the otr folks get pointed to the fact that a) openbsd got 20k and b) they'd better get their ass in here and start working up a track record ?
asciilifeform: kanzure: this is a question i've put a great deal of thought in. what do you dislike re: existing actuators for cnc ?
mircea_popescu: First question: which work? Not the job you have, it's real, and it's boring. It is a future "career", the fantasy environment seen on TV dramas where all of life takes place.
kanzure: or car... but it wont really ever be used in a car i hope..
kanzure: let's say powering a conventional cnc machine maybe
kanzure: yeah but nobody is selling me a multi-kilowatt surface mount laser
mircea_popescu: what's a good working fluid ? (high absorbtion / high expansion with temp) ?
kanzure: someone made a laser-pumped microfluidic device which was cute
asciilifeform: or, alternatively, a liquid-pistol stirling engine using two sheets of glass and a garden-variety co2 laser engraver
asciilifeform: kanzure: you should be able to fabricate a linear mhd actuator using ordinary etched copper pcb.
kanzure: having a flat/planar/single-pass-manufactured engine or actuator would be very useful for many reasons
mircea_popescu: kanzure seriously, if efficiency is not a concern (and i take it not to be since you never mentioned it yet), a succession of bottles is your best bet.
asciilifeform: (where? on #b-a, naturally.)
asciilifeform: a decade in the lab saves you a minute...
kanzure: a minute on youtube saves a decade in my lab
asciilifeform: kanzure: i think you just linked to a perpetuum mobile.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform granted. just one of those mental automatisms that never had a chance to run into a door before.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: inchworm drive is not necessarily implemented with piezos (though usually), nor is a piezo actuator necessarily built on inchworm principle.
kanzure: hm i have a magnetohydrodynamics person in hplusroadmap. i will pester him.
kanzure: a comb drive is approximately what i want
asciilifeform: kanzure: if you merely wish to drive a linear actuator, use an inchworm motor. if you need extraordinary force, use terfenol-d for the piezo stacks.
mircea_popescu: "Every time you hear the word globalism, you should hear three things: 1. wealth uncoupled from work product. 2. Lifestyle as a reflection of your personal self-worth. 3. You give up control of the capital, and by capital I mean you. "Do I still get paid?" Sure, but you have to promise to spend more than what we pay. "How will that work?" Don't worry, Visa will explain it all to you."
asciilifeform: does the engine need to produce linear motion? turn a shaft? cycle more than once? more than a trillion times ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i moved on to that after building a generic jammer, in my childhood :D
mircea_popescu: well inasmuch you can print a bottle and fill it with a gas, you can make a rocket that'll produce 10 newtons or more.
kanzure: asciilifeform: at minimum i need a few tens of newtons of force... in general.
mircea_popescu: basically, the notion that all manufacturing processes can be divided into an arbitrary number of passes at a gain of productivity is the tenet of that business for a century now.
mircea_popescu: kanzure this nomenclature you use is very confusing for (admittedly,. old) people with actual manufacutring management experience. it sounds a lot like the earlier discussed lighbulb sql.
kanzure: it means "don't spend 100 hours assembling tiny parts into a bigger device"
mircea_popescu: d their lives. If you don't believe me, believe Lori Gottlieb. This logic recommended to her to drop out of Stanford medical school to join Kibu.com, and now she's a relationship expert.