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asciilifeform: i guess there's the elementary fact that a 70 y.o. head of a firm cannot turn into a 20. y.o. apprentice again
undata: jurov: I would say maybe leaving behind business contacts has a cost, but the internet solves that.
undata: don't buy a bunch of garbage if you're headed out.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> mod6: me too, that threw me off. but maybe i did something silly with the install by creating a root account? i'm not super clued on deb... but it asked me to make a root account first, then a user account. so that was kinda bizzare to me. << no that's how debian did it for what, 10, 15 years ? << I thought it was just Ubuntu that only made a user account they'd turn into a super sudoer
mircea_popescu: i think the bar for thai citizenship is having sex with a trannie
undata: canada will readmit children of a canadian citizen
asciilifeform: at any rate, even if herr putin mailed me a ru passport as perverse birthday present, fat lot of good that would do. need a lot more than a passport to leave the 'big zone.'
asciilifeform: it was still swamped, against rules, and the people who did the swamping accounted for a large fraction of the bums which appeared during collapse
mircea_popescu: mod6: me too, that threw me off. but maybe i did something silly with the install by creating a root account? i'm not super clued on deb... but it asked me to make a root account first, then a user account. so that was kinda bizzare to me. << no that's how debian did it for what, 10, 15 years ?
pete_dushenski: i'm off to watch grown ass men with skates chase a black disk around a frozen pond. enjoy your eve b-a!
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu "either you renounce ALL your laws or we burn you to the ground." << now here's a radical concept. probably the same one that was invoked at parliament hill today
mircea_popescu: othernubs`: i thought medium was the sort of site where literally anyone can publish? <<< medium is, essentially, the sort of venue created to give the impression of a #b-a to the 99% idiots who can't tell the difference.
mircea_popescu: undata the same obnoxious farts that create this "passport" that means no rights are also wondering why even a teenager if she has any sense wants to bomb them off the planet.
undata: you can void life without due process; what's a passport?
mircea_popescu: bounce: I don't care if maladjusted angry youths want to run away and make trouble in a war zone. I do care if they come back, recruit some more kids (to do the same), cause trouble, shoot some jews, what have you. << how else do you expect the shithole to be fixed ?
BingoBoingo: After that we just need a few super mutants and then New Reno
BingoBoingo: "Data Center that can't be disconnected" from a safe range
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo a yes, the $900k coin!
BingoBoingo: Paying one's own ransom as a protocol probably won't be perfected though until assbot's level 1 consists entirely of nuclear powers.
mircea_popescu couldn't give less of a shit about whatever "star" the ustardians have produced this week.
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: Sort of thing you might use on a netbook with just enough BTC to pay your own ransom
BingoBoingo: It's more private than using electrum on a public server, but far from using an actual client
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: It's a java turd. I holds keys with decreasing amounts of funds and handles a few adresses funds might still come to.
mircea_popescu: leveldb in and of itself is whatever, maybe not the first choice for a db. leveldb as implemented by hearn was an attack on bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: leveldb / poorly understood / not tested new code caused a fork
jurov: iirc bdb caused a fork, no?
BingoBoingo: nubbins`: The idea I floated last week was purple and orange, but cazalla reminded me colorblindness is a thing.
mircea_popescu: jurov the major code reorg that caused a fork. factual.
BingoBoingo: Superstitious in itself is not ideal, but... Hearn did trigger a hardfork...
jurov: seems rather superstitious to me... but yes, starting at 0.5 and adding new stuff only after review is a plan
mircea_popescu: qntra needs a bikshed.
jurov: nubbins` just a clone of github
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo that b-a is behind them?
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: It's Just a Q and an n
mircea_popescu: what is it, like a coil of rope ?
mircea_popescu: the substitute head seems a good idea.
nubbins`: "what's your password?" "P-A-S-S-Q.." "WRONG"
mircea_popescu: "The HTTPAuthorized function in bitcoinrpc.cpp in bitcoind 0.8.1 provides information about authentication failure upon detecting the first incorrect byte of a password, which makes it easier for remote attackers to determine passwords via a timing side-channel attack."
BingoBoingo: Was a $1000 a year discount on tuition
BingoBoingo: I'd more prefer a solution offered by a conveniece store chain I despise.
nubbins`: incidentally, this: http://imgur.com/a/8f0ge is the man who killed the armed gunman at the canadian parliament today
mike_c: yeah, i ran into it a couple years ago. seems to have lost steam with falling gas prices (shocking).
nubbins`: <+mircea_popescu> <asciilifeform> my mental concept of freedom is more or less synonymous with never setting an alarm clock again. << ha! not even for say, a comet ? <<< i'm down to one alarm a week
asciilifeform: came to see a sonic << if only. brought as a boy and ended up with no other citizenship just like parents (no automagic su->ru citizenship for folks who packed up prior to '94, if i recall)
mircea_popescu: now that's a good one
asciilifeform: i'll feel sorry for herr b when he has to live in a rented hovel and wake to an alarm bell. and follow orders.
mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> asciilifeform came to see a sonic youth show and never left << lol too funnay.
mircea_popescu: well in the same sense brent is 100 bux a barrel
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> my mental concept of freedom is more or less synonymous with never setting an alarm clock again. << ha! not even for say, a comet ?
nubbins`: asciilifeform came to see a sonic youth show and never left
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nubbins`: it's more a function of what you consume than what your income is
mircea_popescu: "why am i so hot ? a wait, that was a third desert wasn't it. plus alcohol."
mircea_popescu: anyway, there is some merit to this entire "sucks to be me" approach to obesity. while i have been catching on a little weight as an adult male, it's still mostly a case of, if i overeat my body just turns it to heat, usually on the spot.
mircea_popescu: one of the things in family folklore re my childhood is this one time when they got a large jar of homemade jam from up in the pantry where it was kept (why ?) and while discussing if to make it crepes or what
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: that only works if you're caesar - or at least, a free man.
mircea_popescu: basically it's a "hey, homeostatic systems have finite recourse"
mircea_popescu: a coupla k's it was
bounce: what's the cost of getting a driver signed and added to the store by redmond?
BingoBoingo: reggiesells: Well it happens on a 30 minute timers. assbot rules over us all unequally
nubbins`: TheNewDeal and i'd say "yeah, guy sent me btc, i sent him a poster" and they would not have any new information upon which to judge your character
nubbins`: you want everyone to know you're a connoisseur, post some pics of your poster to the thread ;D
nubbins`: TheNewDeal, a man's gotta have criteria and you don't meet it, sorry
TheNewDeal: but I did purchase 2 posters from you. Want everyone to know I'm a bitcoin art connoisseur
nubbins`: TheNewDeal you know those are better ratings than i had for a long time :P
BingoBoingo: TheNewDeal: Care to do a tour in the newsmines?
asciilifeform: (how did i make this inference? simply from the fact of the actual die not being a copy. which would have been the obvious explanation.
asciilifeform: http://zeptobars.ru/en/read/FTDI-FT232RL-real-vs-fake-supereal << entirely different silicon. from this we learn!! that a) they copied it because usb id is charged for by rent-seeking scumz0rs b) winblows includes ftdi driver already. relationship with microshit. so chinese were forced into this. ☟︎
TheNewDeal: hey nubbins` , good sir, can I get a rating for purchasing them posters :D?
assbot: Gitian: a secure software distribution method
bounce: until your neighbours call the cops to report a disturbance of the peace?
mircea_popescu: wait, this is a disease you don;t have but gets you welfare ?
assbot: Logged on 06-10-2014 21:06:55; gribble: Sent 7 minutes ago: <sgornick> Re: Qntra.net, I registered @Qntra on Twitter before some griefer /squatter did. Then put a Twitterfeed to push tweets from the RSS feed. When you want the twitter acct, let me know what e-mail to assign it to. It can't be an e-mail already used for any other twitter account.
bounce: they're apparently about to run out of numbers. so they tack on three digits for a net gain of one bit
mircea_popescu: it's about like a domain name, isbn
bounce: domain names have a slightly bigger available space
asciilifeform: like domain names would be were there zero downward pressure on prices, and a single registrar.
bounce: (there was a guy that did exactly that, expressly for hobbyist purposes, but he got shot down, I think)
bounce: well, yes, they probably should sell, say, fractional VIDs (VID+16 PIDs or so) for a nicely small fraction of the cost
asciilifeform: they fake it because even if you implement a standard device class (e.g. HID) you have to fake someone's. or you fork over ~4k usd to parasite scum for a 'legit' id.
mike_c: also requires a "soft-fork" of bitcoin, but don't worry, that's not as bad as a hard fork.
bounce: this that old thing again or did someone do a similar thing anew?
mircea_popescu: if someone makes a powerpoint they may be worth a fuck, but if someone makes a pdf its not worth your time.
bounce: ``The licence only allows use of the Software with, and the Software will only work with Genuine FTDI Components (as defined in the Licence Terms). Use of the Software as a driver for a component that is not a Genuine FTDI Component MAY IRRETRIEVABLY DAMAGE THAT COMPONENT.'' -- well, they did do and went covered their arse.
bounce: you're saying legal eagles are a bunch of sloppy cunts?
bounce: anyhow, I get where they're coming from but it's still a dodgy move.
bounce: not sure if it'd make sense to even put the defense on first sale, but worth a shot.
mircea_popescu: be like, "yeah, it's a fake, but you can't do jack because this guy paid that guy ten bux for it."
cazalla: bounce: ;;seen mistere <<< after #b-a went +m, he said he was leaving
mircea_popescu: you may recall a deffective automobile even if the owner is the owner not you
bounce: and, hm, if the device proclaims to be vendor x / product y, then does the vendor have a right to say "but I didn't make this, this is fake. not my product" and set product id to 0?
asciilifeform: yes reprogrammable, it's intended as a prototype aid. but why inband?!?!
mircea_popescu: sounds like a distinct possiblity bounce
bounce: actually bricking? oh dear. that is maybe a little too enthousiastic. but the poor chinese copies claiming to be ftdi then only implementing half the stuff and causing trouble that reflects badly on ftdi would tire me out, honestly.
mircea_popescu: in the sense that if i donate to the bitcoin foundation a btc and consider maybe donating another 100 in time
los_pantalones: was a single call
mircea_popescu: i see the "3 year's experience" thing got a ++ ?
mircea_popescu: "Jorge Timón Co-Founder Jorge Timón is a software engineer with 4 years of experience at Indra, working on big international projects including software for several insurance companies."
mircea_popescu: los_pantalones o no fucking way, they got like a dozen and they're all co founders and supposedly equally so ?!
asciilifeform: i like the 'kelvin' variant, but this is a matter of taste.