asciilifeform: nubbins`: probably somewhere below that of 'plan 9'
asciilifeform: i used to have a passing interest, long ago. but for all i know you have to sacrifice a son to the crocodile god to get blessing from cupertino to distribute 'app' now.
asciilifeform: 'Apple does not support statically linked binaries on Mac OS X. A statically linked binary assumes binary compatibility at the kernel system call interface, and we do not make any guarantees on that front. Rather, we strive to ensure binary compatibility in each dynamically linked system library and framework.'
asciilifeform walks in and #b-a is about... assets! wonders if he fell into a time warp
asciilifeform: re: bios: every portable computer i've opened in the past decade or so had the system bios stored in an eight-legged spi eeprom. one of the legs is a write-enable. in principle, not so hard to desolder & ground it.
asciilifeform waits for mircea_popescu to recite the proverbial 'if it hurts, don't do that' doctoring.
asciilifeform: it's thug logic, and some of us live in thugschwitz
asciilifeform: this isn't, again, a jurist's 'reasonable doubt' standard
asciilifeform: the info on, e.g., 'bitbet' www, -could- be random garbage - but it -isn't-
asciilifeform: random thug is going to make randomly unsubstantiated claims << here lies the boojum. it isn't unsubstantiated. mr thug is looking for which arse to stuff the soldering iron in, rather than trying to prove something to a jury
asciilifeform: not interested in persuading thugs of anything through any method other than clubbing to death << what exterminator do i call. we're overrun.
asciilifeform: are you discussing rule of law or rule of thugs << thugs
asciilifeform: list tim draper's stash as the output? his coins will be ruined << no, they won't. because he's aryan.
asciilifeform: the "this is just text on a betting website" doesn't get the 'electric anthill' any further from your anus << aha. this was also my objection, if anyone recalls.
asciilifeform: (no modern recoillness cannon works this way)
asciilifeform: not one recoilless cannon was fired, afaik, by ussr in ww2.
asciilifeform: (built in vast numbers, apparently all maldesigned, head engineer goes from hero - at one point, monopolizer of virtually all cannon factories - to zero - shot in the head - within 7 years)
asciilifeform: incidentally, any serious amateur historian of political engineering skullduggery will enjoy an account of the life and death of the recoilless rifle in '30s ussr.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 1001 variations on that theme
asciilifeform: or anybody who ever jumped in the middle of x86 instruction
asciilifeform: mats: packet-in-packet attack (see also, described in that neato phrack thing you linked to, i spent all day leafing through it, you wrecker you) or even frame-shift-mutation in genetics, etc
asciilifeform: it's not just a perverse kind of engineering, where it's the plastic that matters
asciilifeform: nubbins`: once you understand how their religion works, it sorta clicks
asciilifeform: and i have not been able to figure out why it is there on certain times but not others
asciilifeform: 2) the rope is ill-maintained and often it is down or even in pieces
asciilifeform: the interesting thing, from where i stand is, 1) the rope 'counts' but the sidewalk it follows, or the line of trees - do not
asciilifeform: there is a little hassid enclave here where i live. they have the 'eruv' (ceremonial rope boundary) that establishes a zone where they can sorta do things on shabat
asciilifeform: (because, clearly, the latter was not put there by the hassid fella)
asciilifeform: nubbins`: notice that only the 'graded for effort' hypothesis explains why the cellophane 'counts' but not the plastic in the fuselage
asciilifeform: perhaps somebody whose soul is still attached will write this book..
asciilifeform: hell, in that situation, you'd want to be... an insect. mosquito can bite in milliseconds; us, with our heavy circuitry, cannot ever equal this - even if limbs were short enough
asciilifeform: of intelligence, or the inevitable cost ?
asciilifeform: (recall the genetic algorithm discussions, and basic theory of mutation overall)
asciilifeform: but it threatens to make some logical sense based on the tiny size of the 'phase space' of 'healthy/intelligent/strong' vs a world of possible organism, living and dead, which is none of these
asciilifeform: at any rate, it was a hypothesis, and i only know of any support for a restricted version of it
