210100+ entries in 1.579s
Vexual: im sure theres
a better name
Vexual: well that first link defines
a resounding yes, didn't hurt em none
Vexual: didnt the afr print some front page fuckup wthat was on sale in perth for
a few hours recently?
Vexual: the
a in announced isn't hyperlinky either
cazalla: mircea_popescu, BingoBoingo posted the article, he might have
a reason for dropping the y but i've changed it and will ask
assbot: In light of the Gentoo Linux Bitcoin client kerfluffle, I just created
a Docker container to quickly & easily build the latest version of bitcoind from source. : Bitcoin
ben_vulpes: today one of the contractors gave *me*
a joint
thickasthieves: sometimes these things come back to life as
a body part of something decent
mircea_popescu: thickasthieves kinda what irks me. so obviously wasted effort, and
a lot of it. i don't think the people in question are actually nefariously motivated, but you'd think old timers'd have more sense. anyway.
assbot: Mozilla Persona:
A Better Way to Sign In
mircea_popescu: anyway. i wonder if the long term effect will be to help idiots get familiar with the wot (positive) or to get idiots to think they;re part of the wot on
a facebook login based bootstrap website (negative)
mircea_popescu: basically prima facie the scammers made themselves
a bootstrap fake wot.
mircea_popescu: so it's either an attack or
a degenerate reimplementation. one or the other.
thickasthieves:
a future of wots would need to chain wots together right?
thickasthieves: "Identifi is an address book application that stores its data in
a distributed fashion on the computers of its users. The stored information is not owned or centrally administered by anyone."
gribble: Error: I am not seeing this user on IRC. If you want information about
a registered gpg user, try the 'gpg info' command instead.
mircea_popescu: xiando i just fixed that above. there's
a delay, bout an hour or so, cause multiple cache layers.
xiando: it keeps telling me I need
a better WOT rating
mircea_popescu: not
a bad idea, considering they probably want exposure. dubious if it's worth the hassle.
mike_c: depends how important quality is i guess. but
a rough text is painful to read to me.
mike_c: siri doesn't have to produce
a readable text though, just understand the gist.
mike_c: yes, but machines do
a crappy job of voice/pdf -> text. maybe the turks are the ones who clean it up.
gribble: Error: "getratings" is not
a valid command.
gribble: You rated user mthreat on Sat Jun 21 05:42:17 2014, with
a rating of 2, and supplied these additional notes: Awesome search ; coffee.
gribble: You rated user cazalla on Wed Apr 16 22:29:03 2014, with
a rating of 1, and supplied these additional notes: New blood..
cazalla: better to link to
a txt than include it in post than imo
mircea_popescu: cazalla the point being that it's easier to format/spellcheck
a predeturdified turd than to write from scratch
cazalla: i don't see the value in just copying to
a post without making it readable
mircea_popescu: you'd think everyone's got
a college degree means they are god damned good at exactly that. but...
mircea_popescu: and if you get it to where you have to fix
a letter per ten words you're way way ahead of someone who has to press pause every five seconds
mircea_popescu: being able to take
a turd and turn it into readable content within an hour or
a day, and being able to so process gigabytes of crud
a month is, by itself, more barrier to entry than all the collective "press" has
mircea_popescu: you seriously should spend
a week or w/e it takes trying out ocrs and voice recognition tools and whatnot, because going forward this will remain an issue
BingoBoingo: Oh, I found
a pdf textualizer, but I dunno if it handles pdfs that are just photographs of text yet
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu> and prolly best to make it
a page rather than
a txt file. people want what they want when they click. << Updated this one now to have both
mircea_popescu: and prolly best to make it
a page rather than
a txt file. people want what they want when they click.
BingoBoingo: 38 pages so I'll txt it
a bit different. .txt file to download
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo you going to make that court document scan
a text btw ?
mircea_popescu: the very definition of
a rogue state is "one which construes itself more powerful than the private citizen"
mircea_popescu: “The government posits two standards of behavior: one for private citizens, who must adhere to
a strict standard of conduct construed by the government,” read
a final filing Tuesday. “The other for the government, which, with its elastic ability to effect electronic intrusion, can deliberately, cavalierly, and unrepentantly transgress those same standards.”
BingoBoingo: The judge alledges he could have claimed ownership in
a way that wouldn't be
a confession, but which would have effectively made his taking the stand either have to end in
a confession or perjury
assbot: Judge Rejects Defense That FBI Illegally Hacked Silk RoadOn
a Technicality | WIRED
mircea_popescu: if and seems like were rowing in
a boat. if if weren't there, seems like seems like'd have drowned.
mircea_popescu: "SENATOR GERSTEIN (1:50:40) Mr. Antonopolous, your reputation preceded you prior to your arrival. You may recall that in my introductory remarks, I did not introduce you as
a Bitcoin guru, but as THE Bitcoin guru. I think that I could speak on behalf of all of the members of the committee in saying that you have more than lived up to that reputation. We greatly appreciate your presentation today. Thank you very much, t
bounce: though even if he'd shouted high and low it was something else entirely that just happened to carry the exact same unit value as
a us dollar they'd still hang him on the nearest tree of accusations. they're like that. any old excuse will do.
mircea_popescu: and it was pretty derpy/insane to boot. i mean literally, going by shops, telling random people that hey, this is as much
a dollar as that.
bounce: ``The founder of Liberty Reserve,
a virtual currency used by cybercriminals around the world to launder proceeds of their illegal activity, was extradited from Spain and arrived in the United States this afternoon.'' -- so, uhm, why aren't they even investigating the current owners and propagators of that much more widely currency used by criminals, "cyber" and otherwise, world-wide?
bounce: ah, of course it's extra-doubly-criminal if you are
a /former/ american doing all that outside of the US
bounce: "REST" is all the rage these days, and is obviously
a fine and good excuse to push off all the processing into the client (and thereby reinventing just about everything, badly), instead of, oh, having the server process all that or just serving up the content right away.
mircea_popescu: but there's
a bunch of them. the retarded crowd that does videos instead of articles tends to send links to them instead of plain text.
mircea_popescu: google has this "document" format that's basically just
a bunch of spurious javascript
mircea_popescu: now if only someone made
a site that wasn';t
a retarded ball of javascript
The20YearIRCloud: The property I just got is
a smoking deal. $30k purchase, about $2k in rehab if that, will bring in $1050/mo rented with about $300/mo in costs (Taxes, insurance, repairs)
kakobrekla: (im just thinking re your idea of being
a hedge)
The20YearIRCloud: Although that's gonna go down as we lever, but as of property #10, our costs are
a little under 30% of revenues
bounce: those wily belgians trying to make
a name for themselves in time-honoured fashion: "sound scary? read on!"
chetty: <thestringpuller> in the future we will have nanomachines that prevent us from physically disclosing our handler. that will be
a scary time.//pls tell me at least
a day ahead of this
thestringpuller: in the future we will have nanomachines that prevent us from physically disclosing our handler. that will be
a scary time.
mircea_popescu: there's not that many handlers, they drive cars, they have wives, it's
a solved problem.
mircea_popescu: in cryptography, every constant's
a salt. you're well advised to change ALL constants
mircea_popescu: so no, i'd trust anything nist/ieee/etc certified
a lot less than i'd trust random shit.
thestringpuller: remember that point you brought up about someone reading
a newspaper article about
a field they are well versed in. That person says, "Wow holes everywhere" etc. Then he moves to article from field he is less familiar with and just agrees with it?
bounce: it's been ages but an exponent of one isn't
a great idea, no. they shipped with that? oops. (could see it as another reason why you don't implement crypto yourself; you use
a well-vetted library, as in written by cryptographers and then read by other cryptographers)
mircea_popescu: o which reminds me, did the doom zerohedge announced as
a given manifest in the fx markets yet ?
bounce: oh it's not really
a surprise, but his is supposedly
a PR club, not
a policing club. not smart to get mired in that swamp.
mircea_popescu: however, because bitcoin will be hoarded in general and transacted rarely, it is quite possible for there to appear
a new macroeconomics equation :
mircea_popescu: superficially, if one thinks btc is
a drop-in replacement for fiat (which it isn't, just like car isn't exactly
a drop in replacement for tricycle) one'd expect the same to hold
mircea_popescu: it doesn't have
a good answer. on one hand, fiat currency can never meet the total asset value, for very well understood reasons.
mircea_popescu: mike_c well i guess it got deleted meanwhile. it just said "owned like
a pony" or something
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> so it turns out deedbot got haxed. << deets? << someone put
a random deed up there, i linked it above the comment.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: (put
a bullet through
a long-overdue zombie) << zombie being what, people running gentoo through an emulator on windows ?
bounce: feeding random bits to that vaikan thingy makes me lose 2:1. seems that giving the thing
a pass option gives it an unfair advantage.
mircea_popescu: it's one thing doing news pieces because that's the news. but people writing blogs aren't doing newspieces, they're doing editorial, and the news burnout is
a century old, well known and documented mode of failure for editors.
mircea_popescu: the problem with drinking the coolaid and starting to perceive yourself as "of
a field" is that you end up with this obligatory slag.
assbot: Logged on 25-03-2014 20:41:17; asciilifeform: Officially, all Soviet representatives regard these parasites with touching feelings of friendship, but privately they call them 'shit-eaters' ('govnoed'). It is difficult to say where this expression originated, but it is truly the only name they deserve. The use of this word has become so firmly entrenched in Soviet embassies that it is impossible to imagine any other name for these people.
A conver