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mircea_popescu: "Trusted Platform Module From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Redirected from Fritz-chip) Trusted Platform Module (TPM) is an international standard for a secure cryptoprocessor,"
mircea_popescu: in a sense they always are : they verify at the minimum that math is homogenous in the universe.
mircea_popescu: so : those could as well be the remote part of a fritz chip
mircea_popescu: not sure how to best convey this as the guy's terminology is a sort of pigdin latin numerals.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field incidentally, it's funny to consider the relations between "remote attestation" and hock or w/e the thing was called
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> boils down to the hardness of the fritz chip << the reason they don't call it that is because they are trying to avoid the literature documenting the costs of making it hard and the limitation its softness imposes.
mircea_popescu: it can readily be shown riguroulsy that this is impossible iun the general case
mircea_popescu: sort-of like the interesting problem of "detecting emulator"
mircea_popescu: ascii_field it's still an interesting problem, even if not necessarily of practical consequence.
mircea_popescu: <mats> i'm rapidly tiring of being a relay << why's the guy not come over anyway ? well... i guess the answer's actually obvious huh. nm.
mircea_popescu: not even necessary in the case at hand, but as a general rule.
mircea_popescu: <mats> wasn't telling a lie, merely made a mistake <<< it's a very interesting point as to how do you establish this ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "Fourthly, the tea should be strong. For a pot holding a quart, if you are going to fill it nearly to the brim, six heaped teaspoons would be about right."
mircea_popescu: anyway, icesomething or the other is making a pretty penny out of obfuscating and bytecoding php
mircea_popescu: so it can directly be dismissed if one's inclined to dismiss on such grounds.
mircea_popescu: but yes, you're broadly correct in suspecting that past this general, "managerial" intuition i lack any actual idea of how it'd work out in practice.
mircea_popescu: in your mind this means "i won't be able to tell if nsa is running X on my computer". in my mind, this means "nsa won't be able to tell if i'm running trilema off obama's computer".
mircea_popescu: so i can run trilema off of them and there's nothing they can do about it.
mircea_popescu: let the good people of jwz nation run "secure" "homowhatever" computers.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field you don't imagine the stuff won't be hacked, right ?
mircea_popescu is kind of sick paying "datacenters" for hosting, i'd much rather pay "criminals".
mircea_popescu: ascii_field looky, there's some value into getting better control of the "owners" of zombie computers.
mircea_popescu: ty months of bloom" << epic. in the same article he complains about someone complaining about roses being bourgeois.
mircea_popescu: "I think it is worth recording what some of them cost, just to show what you can do with a few shillings if you invest them in something that grows.I think it is worth recording what some of them cost, just to show what you can do with a few shillings if you invest them in something that grows. [...] Between them, in nine years, those seven rose bushes will have given what would add up to a hundred or a hundred and fif
mircea_popescu: so : yes, great, for outside. not the chief point of computing in any sense.
mircea_popescu: that munroe character makes the same point with schoolchildren, schoolmasters and condoms, but i have no taste for it.
mircea_popescu: my perception of "secured computing", for what it's worth (perhaps not much) is that it's very much akin to clothing. sure, it "protects the body". yet one generally wishes for the sort of house that allows, and that's populated by the sort of women that don't particularly need that protection.
mircea_popescu: scale wars at the cost of prolonging indefinitely a 'peace that is no peace'.
mircea_popescu: Had the atomic bomb turned out to be something as cheap and easily manufactured as a bicycle or an alarm clock, it might well have plunged us back into barbarism, but it might, on the other hand, have meant the end of national sovereignty and of the highly-centralised police state. If, as seems to be the case, it is a rare and costly object as difficult to produce as a battleship, it is likelier to put an end to large-
mircea_popescu: 1. the consensus of the people ; 2. the internet ; 3. the consensus of people on the internet.
mircea_popescu: i don't think orwell is properly credited with the invention of this term ?
mircea_popescu: James Burnham's theory has been much discussed, but few people have yet considered its ideological implications–that is, the kind of world-view, the kind of beliefs, and the social structure that would probably prevail in a state which was at once UNCONQUERABLE and in a permanent state of 'cold war' with its neighbors.
mircea_popescu: the only places plankton can colonize are the uk, france, etc.
mircea_popescu: better'd be to see who hanged for the fact that prefab production wasn't transitioned to "sandwiched prefab with styofoam". in like, 1992.
mircea_popescu: but let's not talk of "20 years later". not on the internet, of all places.
mircea_popescu: of course... once they age they'll be the best cockroach house any cockroach could dream for.
mircea_popescu: jurov if "gotta trade with somebody" is your premise, go to new york, and be a jew.
mircea_popescu: HERE IS THE RECENT TRICK THAT B-A REALLY HATES. HOW AN UNEMPLOYED TWERP MADE IMPOSSIBLE TO SOFTWARE.
mircea_popescu: how about you go live in china, then, if your plan is to put your life on a foundation of trade with china ?
mircea_popescu: siberia is to be approached sanely, which is to say, dressed in furs you tanned yourself, with trained dogs and women that are provedly able to live like this.
mircea_popescu: see phf, men are deeply afraid of women. especially the men that never killed anyone for the simple aesthetic pleasure of taking a life.
mircea_popescu: "But a boxing audience is always disgusting, and the behaviour of the women, in particular, is such that the army, I believe, does not allow them to attend its contests." lmao orlov and his middle class sentimentalities.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: mats there's certainly a difference between brainfuck and c++ programs that's driven by difference between actual brainfuck and c++. what exactly it is, tho...
mircea_popescu: and omfg the x of y enough already god damned pigdinheads
mircea_popescu: now my question to you, mats, becomes : what's this to you ? does the apparent novelty catch your eye ? or wut ?
mircea_popescu: heck, given the shape they're in, one in a billion may be excessive.
mircea_popescu: atens "bitcoin improvement" prgrammes is way too much.
mircea_popescu: current computer science favours the speed of light over other speeds "much more important to "us"". it is a serious fucking problem for usg/nsa/alphabetsoup that there still exist people who even vaguely understand what this shit even is, because even one in a million that can make actual decisions based on actual facts when that asshole asciilifeform publishes things about pgp keys or that asshole mircea_popescu thre
mircea_popescu: ng, not the emulation gap between modern CPUs and a theoretical Turing machine."
mircea_popescu: "The divergence between the theoretical Turing machines and the machines designed to emulate has grown significantly; most of the "work" modern computers (including mobile devices, etc.) perform is not computation oriented as it was with a Turing machine. Today networking, graphics/audio and interaction with the physical world (SCADA, wearables, etc.) have become the key features that the industry is working on improvi
mircea_popescu: my chair has spent a great deal of time pondering my ass.