asciilifeform: wtf is the appeal of this

asciilifeform: 'In 2006, then-Savvis Inc. Chief Executive Robert McCormick earned the nickname “lap dunce” from the New York Daily News after being accused of charging a $241,000 topless-club bill to his corporate credit card.' << i seriously dun get it

asciilifeform: just by virtue of building their 'green zone' in the middle of the jungle/desert

asciilifeform: thing is, americans helpfully 'surround' themselves whenever they land in orcland

asciilifeform: (who wouldn't pay to watch this)

asciilifeform: or let the pencilnecks try to explain to him why the rocket ought not be fired

asciilifeform: only with radio

asciilifeform: decimation: clever man uses sixteen of'em in a circle around the american general, let him shoot himself with own rocket

asciilifeform: ^ mega-l0l

asciilifeform: 'Berrett also used his company credit card to spend $131.08 with Interactive Life Forms, parent company of sex-toy maker Fleshlight, and listed the purchase as exam test prep questions, the indictment says. Berrett paid $226.50 for a wine shipment from the Gold Medal Wine Club, listing the purchase as a “Bribe for the UNIX guys.”'

asciilifeform: re: vans >> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-06-2014#712476 << see also. ☝︎

asciilifeform: how many people even own an am tuner

asciilifeform: coderwill: ~100 yrs ago.

asciilifeform: same choice as everyone else.

asciilifeform: also 'pirate' must answer the question to himself, of what his purpose is.

asciilifeform: bring a 'rtl-sdr' into the city, and see

asciilifeform: there sure are

asciilifeform: which is plainly idiotic

asciilifeform: only if broadcasting on occupied band

asciilifeform: etc.

asciilifeform: or a mircea_popescu

asciilifeform: moscow pays

asciilifeform: ~pirate~

asciilifeform: no reason why 'pirate radio' can't be matchbox-sized, solar-powered, and dropped from quadcopter in 100 places within an hour. ☟︎

asciilifeform: phf: http://www.bigheadpress.com/tpbtgn?page=18 << see also

asciilifeform: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/07/27/tragedy-of-golden-daughters-murder-plot-against-parents-resonates-with-asian-immigrant-children/?tid=hybrid_collaborative_1_na << other l0l from same fishwrap

asciilifeform: no 'blank spot.'

asciilifeform: http://www.rtlsdr.com << them

asciilifeform: $20 or so.

asciilifeform: buy an rtl-sdr and listen to more or less whatever

asciilifeform: coderwill: land lines died

asciilifeform: and occasionally 'return codes' - 'have prisoner for transport,' 'send corpse squad', etc

asciilifeform: radio is normally used for dispatching.

asciilifeform: it isn't as if police can't use their mouths, talk like normal humans in person

asciilifeform: coderwill: the way it works is 'don't use radio'

asciilifeform: ^ usg mandate

asciilifeform: (consumer scanners, however, will not even attempt aes decrypt)

asciilifeform: key is, i'm told, null, more often than not.

asciilifeform: coderwill: can still pick'em up with modern computerized scanner (p25)

asciilifeform: decimation: i did for a while, bored myself to tears

asciilifeform: they have 'human' phones, paid with own salary, typically.

asciilifeform: not here.

asciilifeform: coderwill: iirc they carry normal 'human' phones

asciilifeform: pretty sure the ~only~ radio in the tunnels proper is verizon's leaky-feeder-coax

asciilifeform: one policeman speaks to another at opposite end of train, or on the station

asciilifeform: working perfectly well

asciilifeform: however it is done, i see these on dc metro trains

asciilifeform: on account of a great many folks carrying just such

asciilifeform: iirc all american units are set up to interoperate with old-fashioned analog radio

asciilifeform: and what, have no untrunked mode ?

asciilifeform: aboard a moving train

asciilifeform: e.g., in a train tunnel

asciilifeform: radios work when any two+ can hear one another.

asciilifeform: other thing is,

asciilifeform: what cell net has millisecond call set-up/teardown ?

asciilifeform: a feature still absent from standard cells

asciilifeform: and partly 'push to talk'

asciilifeform: tradition, partly

asciilifeform: what was the other silliness

asciilifeform: who cares about $1/min if the nukes are falling

asciilifeform: for comparison, an infantryman's basic rifle is ~$2k.

asciilifeform: $1k or so, to a human

asciilifeform: (to him)

asciilifeform: $0

asciilifeform: what usg functionary of any significance walks around without a satellite phone ?

asciilifeform: whoever thought this idiocy up, must have watched the payphone scene in 'dr strangelove'

asciilifeform: l0l was just reading this.

asciilifeform: sure.

asciilifeform: if you really want to transmit packets as hitler's pocket phone, and you can get a capture of its output - you can.

asciilifeform: it is no 'gossipd'

asciilifeform: of course, whole thing's a crock of shit because no consumer handset signs its output

asciilifeform: decimation: iirc this is traditionally handled by having a switch somewhere that essentially cancels everybody's subscription but for a few mandarins

asciilifeform: but it is structured in such a way that the band can be used only for voice XOR data

asciilifeform: there is 1

asciilifeform: why have two modems ?

asciilifeform: (yes, they don't transmit voice as ip packets! believe!)

asciilifeform: plus there are still retarded carriers ('verizon') where data modem is shut down if voice call is going, until it hangs up

asciilifeform: not iirc

asciilifeform: lacks, what phone folks call 'hand-off'

asciilifeform: and then you walk off your yard and wifi cuts, and lose call.

asciilifeform: hence worthless

asciilifeform: never, afaik, default

asciilifeform: if wifi, and if both sides select it

asciilifeform: for entirely elementary reason

asciilifeform: all modern cell phones have abominable sound quality

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=28-07-2015#1214473 << um what ☝︎

asciilifeform: all the hardware is helpfully included.

asciilifeform: from, e.g., verizon's 'femtocell'

asciilifeform: build yourself

asciilifeform: and then parallel construct, 'never happened', 'anonymous stoolie told us where the cocain was buried'

asciilifeform: my current understanding is that 'imsi catcher' is an artifact specifically of the bureaucratic side of usg. intercept at the tower, where the bits hit a land line, is trivial and no one has to leave his chair - but the paperwork is annoying. hence squaddie and 'catcher' ☟︎

asciilifeform: openly mandated by nsa, no less

asciilifeform: aha

asciilifeform: and why does anyone give a fuck re: gsm encryption? it uses a toy 1980s algo

asciilifeform: what's to keep the enemy from simply walking around with a proper commercial tower business end

asciilifeform: i don't get why they would necessarily have to exhibit anomalous behaviour

asciilifeform: (or - more likely - are 'catchers' laughably poor stand-ins for traditional tower?)

asciilifeform: or, one that is too 'loud' ? or in motion ?

asciilifeform: mats: how's that work? detects any tower seen at ground level?

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=27-07-2015#1214249 << astonishing hipster idiocy. just like, e.g., 'hemingwriter'. ('let's make laptop shaped like typewriter! that'll bring western civilization back!') idiot cargocultists. 'let's omit all, even the few useful features like 'who called' from cell phone! that'll bring the 1950s and american industry back!' ☝︎☟︎