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mircea_popescu: but forget about me for
a second. drudge beheaded clinton, the libtards' most beloved president (mostly because he destroyed banks and everyone's savings to put 100k black bums in houses they can't afford and meanwhile destroeyd)
mircea_popescu: looking forward to more of the "oh mp is such
a conspiracy nut" stuff.
mircea_popescu: but if you just bought it, you just bought howevermany needed. 100 or 0.1, same thing to you, just
a token
BingoBoingo: We'll know Ethereum is dead when Vitalik puts of Vastly more money for
a New Years day bowl.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> still
a horrible use of dollars. apple got to be apple by paying about 2-5% of that, over
a decade. << It's
a fake money problem really. Too many VC dollars that can't actually buy things so they go marketing pissing matches.
thestringpuller: you're on
a modem? I fall asleep for 2 hours and the world is back int he dark ages?
mircea_popescu: still
a horrible use of dollars. apple got to be apple by paying about 2-5% of that, over
a decade.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> how is it
a win lol. << If USG accepts it can't have nice things it can try to still be kind of the dump
ascii_modem: ephialtes doesnt care abou straightening own back - knows it's
a fantasy - but happy to turn everyone else into hunchback.
ascii_modem: the silent, tedious corrosion of everything even vaguely computerized, on account of winblows - that's
a modern usg win.
ascii_modem: see the siberian pipeline incident. << i am not convinced by this sole flower. <<<< an attributable wreck is
a failed mission, really
BingoBoingo: <gribble> #21874 || darsie || BUY 1.0 1 kg uranium @ 100 EUR || e.g. counterweight, projectile, radiation shield. I'm not sure if that's
a reasonable price since an aircraft company had trouble finding
a dump where they could get rid of some counterweights. I'm open for other amounts or some thorium metal/compounds, highly radioactive stuff like mushrooms from Chernobyl and
a ~1 kg piece of tungsten at/near theoretical density.
ben_vulpes: kakobrekla: got my hopes up for
a second there
mircea_popescu: keep nipping from the sides until eventually, have
a complete, us-independent computing stack. start open war on the patent idiots, put everyone ever involved in jail, starve them slowly, publish pictures in
a specially created memorial etc etc.
mircea_popescu: Adlai: so what's the roadmap for liberating honest silicon's ability to self-reproduce from the monkeys that are trying to choke it down?
a) make cardano ; b) make next product ; c) keep doing this.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: the freedom of the semiconductor belongs - not! to the fellow with the factory - but the one who controlls the entire process stack << so much bull. and i suppose the freedom of the press belongs to conde nast, because mp can't write
a blong and it can't be more widely read than mashable because wikipedia won't admit to it and that matters. o.O and okay...
mircea_popescu: you might as well claim
a tb patient is god, because he can kill people. sort-of.
mircea_popescu: in that sea of diverse failure, that malware was involved in like... one in
a decade fails to even register
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> [02:37:56] kakobrekla: he is just caught in
a local pain minimum. <<< kako is like our blind slovenly prophet. he knows teh truths! << blind somalian i thot ;)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: xilinx ships
a set of identially-functioning turdlibraries for both languages. << one wonders how they actually achieved this.
assbot: Logged on 24-12-2014 03:30:09; asciilifeform: all that resulted was
a leak, of facts which anglo media will never print - so it's almost as good, from their point of view, as 'never happened'
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: wake me up when
a 'minuteman' is pwned and sent off on an unsanctioned joyride. << that may require fixing them.
mircea_popescu: by the way ascii_modem! teh world eagerly awaits
a letter from you. seeing how we missed the previous opportunity
mircea_popescu: decimation: one gets the picture that usg 'leaders' think of themselves as being above such trivialities as secure communications << this is not as unlikely as itmay seem. at
a time when caesar came up with the pgp of that time, most of the senate
a) loled at the nonsense ; b) wondered which gods caesar was praying to to be that successful.
ascii_modem: lol which 'yourself' ? and how to know it wasn't
a hangout design
ascii_modem: how come the fbi is this impotent ? << because it is slated for replacement with
a new gendarmerie. i thought we went over this
ascii_modem: but invariably this happens only when the chip can no longer be met with even in
a scrapyard.
mircea_popescu: i can use my bitcoin to pay for
a hit on obama. one can't even use his dollars in lumps larger than 10k, we don't even get to discuss the content because the form already trips us up.
mircea_popescu: so in this sense, thinking of bitcoin as even having
a dollar value other than infinity is nonsense.
mircea_popescu: even if the coconut goes for ten trillion "dollars" on their island, and
a sloop never costs 1mn
mircea_popescu: what they couldn't ever do, no matter what nominal value each coconut theoretically reaches, is buy
a sloop.
mircea_popescu: in this sense, some guys stranded on
a deserted island COULD build
a coconut trading empire where they just keep selling and buying the same three dried old coconuts to the point where their imaginary "economy" far outstrips the whole combined world trade.
mircea_popescu: you could not get
a single dolphin to fly, nor
a single loafer to work, for an infinity in scrip. because it's not "in their nature"
mircea_popescu: decimation: imagine if the billions poured into 'cybersecurity' were spent on constructing an actual secure terminal from first principles << there's
a fundamental problem with soft, fiat, paper money, that it can't be used for arbitrary purposes, which is the very meaning of "soft" in their name.
mircea_popescu: so, look into the bank accounts of all those invovled, see who's made
a little bezzlebucks they had no perspective of making in 2005
mircea_popescu: to the typically corrupt latter soviet system where that hero is
a hero of the union.
mircea_popescu: all the asshole "lefties" for pay that helped the usg "react to" snowden have made money out of it. the old system where
a "random hero" was selected to be held up as
a fetish for the masses, "explaining" their poverty and justifying their pointless struggle is giving way, out of sheer exhaustion of resources,
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: and the whole greenwald/poitras/etc shitgnome gang <<< very little has been made of this, but here'd be
a great angle for investigative jouralism :
gribble: austeritysucks was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 1 week, 3 days, 17 hours, 6 minutes, and 26 seconds ago: <austeritysucks> ok have
a good one cazalla you too
mircea_popescu:
A spokesperson for Booking.com told Money Box the firm is working with police on how to prevent future phishing attacks. They declined to be interviewed.
mircea_popescu: "I want to know how this scamming company are finding out the reservation numbers, the dates, the contact details, there's
a lot of private information there," she said.
mircea_popescu: and this shouldn't be
a point of discussion in that trial because... they know they'll lose ?
thestringpuller: "Why don't we just shoot nuclear waste of our atmosphere and into the Sun?" "Because it's stupid expensive and it's stupid dangerous if
a rocket blows up on the launchpad. Please don't do this."
adlai: garzacoin shilling is getting quite intense, though. i've even met irl paycoin shills at
a local meetup, and it's sad how clueless they are of their role in the larger scam (or sad how they can't get
a decent stage acting gig, and have to do this shit instead)
mircea_popescu: basically, leading 0s / bad padding. not so much of
a practical issue
mircea_popescu: "Because OpenSSL gently handles leading zero bytes in
a private key, I'm quite sure that
a correction of the EC key encoding has no impact."
assbot: Logged on 22-12-2014 02:21:10; decimation: some bum who camps next to the George Washington bridge also has 300,000 'views' per day - that doesn't transform him into
a 'profitable business'
assbot: Logged on 21-12-2014 18:02:01; asciilifeform: which, it turns out, the systemd pushers reflexively defended as
a feature.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: 'Please could we stick to the technical aspects of this problem. Attempts to apportion responsibilty rarely lead anywhere.' << immediately shoot in the head anyone saying this. help make the world
a better place.
mircea_popescu: except the usg is not
a version of the world, it's merely
a version of graham & co's beliefs.
mircea_popescu: he succeeded as an easy money usg moocher, which is i suppose something he justifies to himself as "being an expert in
a later version of the world"
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes "To some extent, yes. I spent almost
a decade investing in early stage startups, and curiously enough protecting yourself against obsolete beliefs is exactly what you have to do to succeed as
a startup investor." << yes, you miss the part where he never succeeded as
a start-up investor.
mircea_popescu: decimation: asciilifeform: either from ore or paying the ransom required to get intel et. al. to completely open the design for
a chipset <<< or else simply sony-ing it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: afaik every word of the history of the two koreas available in the english language, since the first days leading up to the war, is
a cheap fabrication.<< in no way different from the same words available in juche language
mircea_popescu: decimation: asciilifeform: I doubt there will be
a 'day of reckoning' w.r.t. tor. it will just turn off and the derps will move on << pretty much exactly.
cazalla: well, i always wanted to be
a farmer!
mircea_popescu: how secure can one feel, as
a mid range us bureaucrat, given these revelations ? the usg can not protect you, yo.
mircea_popescu: note it took them HALF
A YEAR to figure out we actually do know where they live.
mircea_popescu: the fbi as it currently stands has not the werewithal to extract itself from
a paper bag. and i mean that literally, if i kidnapped them all and dropped them in rural kansas they'd prolly never make it back to headquarters.
mircea_popescu: i mean, seriously. what agency in the history of that business would ever, under any circumstances, make such
a ridiculous blunder ?
assbot: Logged on 20-12-2014 03:10:14; decimation:
http://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/update-on-sony-investigation << there is an air of desperation here: "Sony reported this incident within hours, which is what the FBI hopes all companies will do when facing
a cyber attack. Sony’s quick reporting facilitated the investigators’ ability to do their jobs, and ultimately to identify the source of these attacks."
mircea_popescu: "kakobrekla: On
a good note, Judge Rakoff called me
a brilliant visionary and that he admires my brainpower. #bitcoin" << shrem's retarded, basically.
mircea_popescu: so basically doge v2.0, because the fucktards must have
a "moon rocket".
mircea_popescu: "Hey friends, reddit cryptocurrency engineer here. The post is deliberately vague about technology and legal. For one, we're holding back on committing to
a particular technology just because the bitcoin world changes very fast, and we want to make sure we pick the right choice. However, almost certainly it will be either colored coins or sidechains."
mircea_popescu: they even have the unmitigated audacity to add that violation of the indian diplomat on his cv as if it were
a positive.
mircea_popescu: "This was
a single Windows executable with well over
a hundred man-years of blood, sweat and tears invested in it." idiot, srsly.
mircea_popescu: "They spent several months testing my code, comparing its performance with their old database, which was pretty primitive but known to be reliable." vs "If their application went down for even
a day, it would cost them hundreds of thousands of dollars. This was
a common occurrence, as their existing application was pretty buggy."
mircea_popescu: "hi, i had my tits done at your clinic two weeks ago but my husband left me for
a younger woman anyway so i'd like
a refund now because you didn't provide
a service".
mircea_popescu: i suppose providing
a service doesn't count as providing
a service except in those cases where the beneficiary is happy with the outcome or something ?
mircea_popescu: crybabi: but i won't be using bitbet again, charging
a fee when you don't provide
a service is no way to run
a business << o.O
mircea_popescu: decimation mats : the situation with freenode is that it's basically
a sinking ship / abandoned tech. the few hanger ons do not actually have the werewithal to do anything other than push the levers, which they sort-of understand how to do, but various rooms are constantly being sealed off because "it's too much". it's indubitable that freenode will eventually sink, and it won't take it decades, for this very reason.
mircea_popescu: "asciilifeform: no actual human transmits $maxint whatevers from
a single ip per second/hour/etc" except
a) yes they do and b) 4kb should be enough for everyone.
mircea_popescu: occasionally there's some sec "senior attorney" gofer. the vast majority is X dude who doesn't like the fact that trilema maintains
a copy of whatever stupid evil shit he did
a few years ago and figures "hey,
a few years ago means it never happened"
mircea_popescu: cazalla i get between
a few and
a dozen poorly cobbled together "legal threats" each week.
mircea_popescu: nanotube: it is being worked on. but have
a lot of other stuff on my plate. once everything is signed, there will not even be
a need for something like "auth". <<< this is
a good point. having identity implemented as
a stateful thing is mindboggling anyway. stuff like cloaks and so on pale in comparison.
mircea_popescu: security is not reducible to "build
a really thick steel plate"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: (i'd love to hear
a rationale for it) << people other than nanotube are keeping track of the various scammers trying to use gribble.
mircea_popescu: there's
a lot of benefit for any 7yo in having
a close friend that lost some appendages to heavy machinery.
mircea_popescu: mike_c: that sucks << there's
a lot more depth to this point than meets the eye. us children are inept these days first and foremost because they have been removed from the workplace in the 50s and 60s, under the guise of "safety" and the general nonsense where "Everything must be separated" that also yielded zoning laws etc.
Apocalyptic: and probably not that qualified as well, i'm no programmer in any sense, much less
a C++ guru
mod6: no sweat. we're not quite at that point anyway. as I was eluding to in the Address & ToDo, I'll update #b-
a at some point during the month after we get this other leak sorted.
mod6: let him know that he's about to send
a 40 BTC tx fee. there are improvments that can be made perhaps
mod6: so, well, i dunno, i guess "works as designed" or something, but
a least do the guy
a favor of
a reach-around
mod6: yeah, but i just read too that if you don't set your change outputs, you'll end up sending like
a huge tx fee.