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asciilifeform: at the very least, not a single one of the several dozen gpu-mining trojans i have collected from the wild actually works if installed as intended
BingoBoingo: My laptop can sustain 12 mh/s if I want to invite a fire hazard
asciilifeform: heterogeneity of gpu (plus the need to install chip-specific driver) means that gpu is not a practical target.
asciilifeform: this is a very loose upper bound.
mircea_popescu: same thing as if you're a "senior counsel" for the sec, or anything else.
kakobrekla: no idiot wrote to me in like a week :(
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Probably. This is probably going to turn into a lulzy kako screencap convo. I mean seriously though. Targeting the personal blog and not the mega news outlet for sponsored whatevers.
BingoBoingo: If this gambling site operator continues to court thedrinkingrecord for a sponsored post... At what point is accepting money for a labeled sponsored post worth it? 20 BTC?
asciilifeform: it's a bottomless pit of various things
asciilifeform: in ru world, a small-arms-themed derp is often told, 'file off yer sights'
danielpbarron slaps kushed around a bit with a large speaking-stick
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but code has a verifiable existence outside of its words. copywriting does not.
BingoBoingo: Amazonfirehd: YOu have yet to acquire a cloak
asciilifeform has a memory
BingoBoingo: Broke 3 Zamac turds, moved to a beauty in 440 stainless steel
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i confess that i don't have a clear picture of who was working on it
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> i own two halves of a broken corkscrew (owned. used to show people.) << I imagine my current corkscrew will outlive me
mircea_popescu: i broke a quarter inch thick garlic press into shards etc
asciilifeform: i own two halves of a broken corkscrew (owned. used to show people.)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: degradation of metal goods proceeded by a similar, if not entirely identical way as organics - not impurities as such (modern alloys are chemically superior to those of the past) but through using tech that ought not be used
BingoBoingo: Qntra shares really aren't a problem so long as they remain countably infinite
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Still, for a full power rifle cartridge of new manufacter not bad at all
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: which is precisely what one might expect for a foreign museum piece
mircea_popescu: such a humanitarian.
asciilifeform: 'That same year, columnist Drew Pearson reported that Representative Francis E. Walter (D-Penn.) had presented President Franklin D. Roosevelt with a letter opener made from the forearm of a Japanese soldier. ‘This is the sort of gift I like to get’, Pearson quotes FDR saying.” '
ben_vulpes: make a synthetic diamond crown of carbonized benjamins
mircea_popescu: speciofically, a captured turkish cannon.
asciilifeform: i don't have any nitpick at a 'group trilema' - but not sure why it needed to be nyooz-flavoured.
mircea_popescu: a right :p
asciilifeform: thing about botnets, this is a whole planet, largely undocumented in open literature
mircea_popescu: how much are ~5k zombie ips worth ? what's the current market value of a wordpress list like whatever, 100k or i didn't bother counting the new one yet ?
asciilifeform: worth his time << chumpnet is like a truck - most of the cost of ownership, assuming you own it, is a fixed cost
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> over a ludicrously expensive plasma tv, the owner of the firm gravely proclaimed that the robot (nominally a sapperbot) shall be fitted with a rifle. << Wait employees hadn't machines so armed already?
mircea_popescu: there, that's a value of qntra approach.
mircea_popescu: jurov: FTFY: build enough audience and capital to buy ukraine <<< here's a simple calculation : someone somewhere judges it worth his time to try to attack qntra for like what, a day ?
asciilifeform: over a ludicrously expensive plasma tv, the owner of the firm gravely proclaimed that the robot (nominally a sapperbot) shall be fitted with a rifle.
asciilifeform: one day we were called in for a meeting
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: re: your reply to 'instazap' - as a young man, i had the 'fortune' to work in one of those small scamatronics firms scattered around wash.dc. they made (well, collected money from usg to make, supposedly) small robots.
mircea_popescu: and now i got you in the corner. either you argue with the libtards that c. maxwell is not a novel result, tho his work is
mircea_popescu: no, he wiggled a cock and dropped semen on uterus.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if you mean he wiggled a pen and dropped ink on paper, sure.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: i wasn't intending to (with what, ha.) just ringing the bell to possibly wake up folks who think they can achieve a new result by doing the same thing as was done for 100 years. <<< you know, the clerk maxwell guy, arguably a novel result, WAS in fact achieved by doing the exact same thing men have been doing to women for a hundred years.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: ATM this inspires me to wonder about... the classic railgun. If the projectile is already a strong magnet...
mircea_popescu: devthedev: Bitcointalk: "Due to a recently-discovered flaw in the TLS and SSL protocols, you may want to change your password, especially if you accessed the forum using Tor." <<< what, tor isn't safe ? incredibru.
mircea_popescu: incidentally : if any reader feels like building a botnet / expanding his botnet, you can probably hit the earlier linked list of ips. if you're carefgul going in you can probably blame whatever mischief on the original derp, too.
mircea_popescu: Freen0deAdmin: why do some names have a color next to them? ThickAsThieves: because racism << ok i lolled. because colonialism.
empyex: mircea_popescu: Want a bash? http://bash.bitcoin-assets.com/?quote=197 Or use a valid MPSIC!
empyex: mircea_popescu: Want a bash? http://bash.bitcoin-assets.com/?quote=71 Or use a valid MPSIC!
asciilifeform: not that i am in love with this paradigm, but not sure that you can construct a genuinely viable net where beggar can talk to king directly.
mircea_popescu: sure, and at a bunch of unintentional other mishaps at that.
mircea_popescu: suppose you, unknown stranger of razi level, have a q. takes you three years and a dozen idiotic answers ?
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: guess more answers are in logs? (that's a dumb question sorry)
asciilifeform: if a n00b wants to learn, he can't ask razi
mircea_popescu: you're never going to escape the fact that a 3 person sitcom crew can fuck three different ways whereas a 4 person crew can fuck in 6 ways
asciilifeform: if random-derp wants a document from you, he should really be reduced to grabbing it (and, naturally, you signed it) from someone closer in wot-space to you
mircea_popescu: granted, this is not a problem that can actually be solved
mircea_popescu: but it's not a network in this sense.
asciilifeform: i described earlier a hypothetical network that silently refuses to rout ddos.
asciilifeform: ddos is a basic attribute of any system where strangers can impose a cost on you at little to no cost to themselves.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: but the fact of ddos still being a thing at all, reveals catastrophically broken design at large. << not really, it just reflects a major problem of the world at large (the quare-linear problem, specifically)
nubbins` offers a sugar cube
ThickAsThieves: as a reader
mike_c: you all act like it's a free for all. like cazalla will accept any 5,000 word piece of shit
ThickAsThieves: should be a rule: footnote words dont count
nubbins`: no infinite shares, just a share per word
nubbins`: i know i'd certainly buy shares in a website in order to read one of its articles
mike_c: WSJ makes a billion or two a year.
ThickAsThieves: there's a btc conference in Miami soon
asciilifeform: wasn't meant to be a specific hypothesis
mike_c: AOL dialup business has been producing diminishing returns for a decade and has been extremely valuable.
ThickAsThieves: qntra provides content of a certain portion of the spectrum
mike_c: yes, they will expect diminishing returns. i don't understand why this is a problem.
asciilifeform: no, the whole concept of a 'news' that is of interest to a gigantic mass of people without being pablum.
asciilifeform: i wasn't intending to (with what, ha.) just ringing the bell to possibly wake up folks who think they can achieve a new result by doing the same thing as was done for 100 years.
mike_c: somebody who believes a better source of bitcoin news is a good idea?
nubbins`: who *is* it a good fit for?
mike_c: um, then investing in qntra is not a good fit for you anyway
asciilifeform: as in, mass media as a concept.
BingoBoingo: <mike_c> or selling direct ala bitbet << From an ethics standpoint a Van-ads sort of arrangement is probably cleaner
asciilifeform: but qntra is meant to be a chopping block for them, not a cafe
mike_c: as mentioned, bitcointalk is now making 40 btc a week on ads.
asciilifeform: i'd still very much like even a speculative picture of where such revenue might come from.
ThickAsThieves: maaaybe you could estimate a value based on other mpex offerings
BingoBoingo: Well, the way I see it people bidding for s.qntra shares are going to be bidding for a percent of future revenue
mike_c: well it does show you a methodology. if you don't like the assumptions, change 'em.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> or pedal? << Pedal, as in the pedal tones on a brass instrument
devthedev: Bitcointalk: "Due to a recently-discovered flaw in the TLS and SSL protocols, you may want to change your password, especially if you accessed the forum using Tor."
ThickAsThieves: like a bicycle
ThickAsThieves: "Everyone's animal spirit is dead. This is a pretty dramatic move when everyone was expecting higher rates"
BingoBoingo: Maybe take a look at it
bounce: a dead russian?
asciilifeform: (the former, a very special trololol)
Freen0deAdmin: its a joke
Freen0deAdmin: why do some names have a color next to them?
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform> the point of a gambit such as drilled coin is to avoid being noticed. << Nah, you drill some coins to force a search for more of the same
asciilifeform: the point of a gambit such as drilled coin is to avoid being noticed.
asciilifeform: nah, they put them through a bank's coin sorter
BingoBoingo: Maybe have a few "hollow" nickles, pack with proper density grease, soon you demand hours of inspector's time as they pour over pounds of nickles looking for an interestign one.
asciilifeform: or a fall.
asciilifeform: there are a few interesting gibblets in there.