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mircea_popescu: davout they don;'t have much roquefort here, unfortunately.
mircea_popescu: assbot> [upon reading about it on trilema,] Navy Diversifies Ships' Cyber Systems to Foil Hackers - IEEE Spectrum << FTFT.
mircea_popescu recalls "specialty ink" was more expensive than "double the run"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform anyway, the "back then" comment is that i'd be much surprised you can find sanely priced layflat process anymore. because yes, mass production needs the mass.
mircea_popescu: mike_c he didn't know you can rate in pm, most likely.
mircea_popescu: back then it wasn't even fucking expensive, iirc it cost ~25 cents per
mircea_popescu: all that's pod and if you inspect the covers you'll see the difference between layflat process and pod covers.
mircea_popescu: it died with the death of the entire publishing industry (actual publishing, ie, putting ink to paper. not predend publishing, aka editing newspapers etc)
mircea_popescu: actually in the early 2000s there was some effort on the part of mfgs to support latex
mircea_popescu: but you know, machine shop ps. postscript-with-quirks.
mircea_popescu: it may not be the last web pressed fiction offering in the us, but it won't be far ahead of the last i dun think
mircea_popescu: a) the printer can't use latex ; b) self published generally means, PoD and a sharky editor that fleeces the hopeful. this was actually printed on web press, so in this sense everything else printed hence is a lot more "self published" than asylum.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform btw, did i ever tell you i did all the typesetting of that thing myself ?
mircea_popescu: they'll keep trying. what else is there to do ? compete with pete in pr ?
mircea_popescu: well so i got your email but apparently there;s still someting wrong because it's all garbled and what is this "-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----" stuff.
mircea_popescu: either that or they didn't actually change it until the 3rd.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the reason this went by unobserved for ~20 hours is that a) internal mail still worked, obviousyl, and b) enom decently adds its record with priority 10. there's a bugfeature apparently where some relayers/dns servers prefer higher priority records even if older.
mircea_popescu: mk we should be back in business. asciilifeform mind remailing me just to see this goes through ?
mircea_popescu: yes cuz within the 27 days. they only charged me 8.5 or so
mircea_popescu: they do however have a 27 day grace period on top of the 5 day grace period etc.
mircea_popescu: in other unrelated news, namecheap wants 200 bucks to renew your expired domain
mircea_popescu: if you imagine email has any sort of security you're nuts.
mircea_popescu: anyway, this is a psa/reminder that in point of fact there is ZERO security wrt email. i, or you, or anyone bored one evening can hijack a mx record, read all teh inbound mail etc.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that's kinda what was wtfing me, what, i don't paste enough of inbound spam in here or wtf is their problem.
mircea_popescu: no fucking wonder's been going on for yearsnobody wrote about it. they'd have to write "umm....lolz"
mircea_popescu: "After reviewing your chat transcripts, it appears in the first chat that the Junior Administrator stated specifically what the issue was, which is that the domain is expired as of 8/7/2011. There was also clarification provided that you'd need to contact the registrar directly for the renewal and to update the DNS back to our name-servers."
mircea_popescu: ct.gov, seriously ? obscure "antivirus" corp with no product ?
mircea_popescu: For security reason, we cannot have an internal link available to the Public. Please bookmark this link
https://ctmail.ct.gov so you can access the site directly.
mircea_popescu: "Hello, ctmail.com is a domain used by Internet security software and devices. For more information please contact info@support.ctmail.com."
mircea_popescu: anyone else see Preferred: 10p.nsm.ctmail.com38.113.116.194 216.163.188.57 216.163.176.42220 c9bh03.amadis.com ESMTP Postfix
mircea_popescu: so upon examination it turns out that polimedia mx dns record has been poisoned somehow, or what the fuck.
mircea_popescu has skipped atantic, wired, vice links. will continue to do so.
mircea_popescu: not everything that isn't specced but could be specced should be. that's how idiocy gets in.
mircea_popescu: but yes, the russian did it poorly. should have been America Today.
mircea_popescu: mostly because you work in sweatshop C rather than sweatshop A.
mircea_popescu: if you don't know me, i don't see why you have any right or any permission to use my ratings of someone else.
mircea_popescu: somehow i suspek it ain't getting published, but anyway.
mircea_popescu: Meanwhile, the only thing you will be remembered for is your noxious quality."
mircea_popescu: You were the only toxic thing in that entire story. Hopefully your failure informs other women, at a young age when they confront the choice of whether to be sarah-sharp-toxic or productive members of society, and they choose to not be sarah-sharp-toxic.
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