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Dimsler: that are easy to convince into a wearing a tin foil hat
xanthyos: russell brand used to have a radio show 10 years ago full of revolutionary antistatist ideas. then he started getting work for cbs and disney and got quiet
asciilifeform: PeterL: normally they use 'child porn' to create a 'lettre de cachet' rather than gun.
asciilifeform: you: 'i wanted a belousov–zhabotinsky reaction.' judge: 'you want chemisty - go to a store.' you: 'can't buy in a store' judge:
asciilifeform: just seems like you're at the total mercy of the crown, if you're a legal (registered) small-arms whatever-business.
The20YearIRCloud: where they forced a gun store to sell guns to a known cartel member, or otherwise they'd throw all the people in jail. Then said cartel guy kills quite a few with said gun.
The20YearIRCloud: becuase that's what happened. A ATF agent got a guy to cut a inch off a shotgun in exchange for $200, then started a whole ordeal over it
asciilifeform: inspector: 'libelling a loyal servant of the crown. extra jail points!'
Duffer1: welding a muzzle device counts too
The20YearIRCloud: SIG very recently put out a few hundred thousand items that the ATF decided they didn't like, and they were essentially impossible to recall, so ATF sued them, and SIG won the lawsuit
The20YearIRCloud: If it's 17" , the law says you can just weld a piece of scrap metal to it that's 1" long and make it get to the minimum length
asciilifeform: but how to prove that you didn't make a particular non-compliant item
The20YearIRCloud: If it's a prototype, and you have a commercial manufacture license, you can fix that
The20YearIRCloud: Well, most firearm firms that have a worry about the legality might send a copy or a blueprint to the ATF to get certification
nubbins`: punkman any major action required a SMS verification code
asciilifeform: let's say you manufacture, e.g., shotguns. then inspector walks in, with a piece inscribed with your logo, 17" long.
The20YearIRCloud: Because if they would allow it, it would bring on a severe wave of 'i improperly used your product to hurt someone, so i'm gonna sue' which happend a ton in the early 90s
The20YearIRCloud: The uS passed a law a while ago that made it quite hard to sue a gun maker
The20YearIRCloud: It's a limited group asciilifeform : No barrels under 16" , gun must be 26" or longer, no fully auto/burst. No shotguns under 18" barrel.
The20YearIRCloud: So with an AK/AR it's the reciever, on something like a glock it's the frame/grip.
punkman: this circle thing works, just grabbed a cheap coin
thickasthieves: asicminer did technically IPO before they had a thing
asciilifeform: (americans simply replaced one or two shells' powder with tetryl, resealed container, and left it for enemy to find as a trophy)
assbot: dpaste: 1ACV2MC: You Have a New Comment, by tat
nubbins`: should be a lower-case lock key IMO.
mircea_popescu: it's really not a very good gun
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: believe or not, they used to sell them - here! a few hundred usd.
mircea_popescu: "România, membră a Tratatului de la Varșovia, a decis trecerea la noul calibru la începutul anilor 1980. În loc să fabrice direct o copie a automatului AK-74, conducerea de la București a decis dezvoltarea unei arme independent de cea sovietică. Rezultatul, Pușca Automată Model 1986, deși similară familiei AK-74, avea unele elemente constructive proprii. "
asciilifeform: another fellow who pulls out a visually-similar apparatus - what can you say about his.
mircea_popescu: coupla guys showed up at state tel;evsion building, dumped a sack of machine guns on floor
asciilifeform: why not a barrel full of rifles, handed out before attack.
asciilifeform: that will broker transactions for him, be instantly recognizable as angelic on sight by a counterparty, etc.
asciilifeform: i believe thestringpuller is asking for a known impossibility - a mechanical angel.
Dimsler: honestly there still a certain level of trust
Dimsler: what a silly conversation
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: or that you have not replaced firmware with your own, that spits out a predestined set of keys cyclically ever time zap is thrown ?
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: how does your counterparty know that your cardano behaves as printed on the tin, and is not a substitute of identical appearance which you built in evil lab ?
Dimsler: seriously anytype of scenario where a private key has to be trusted leaves room for malice
thestringpuller: i apologize for the disarray of thoughts. a dpaste more flushed out maybe more beneficial in terms of relating the scenario
gribble: I Got 99 Problems But a Bitch Ain't One | Know Your Meme: <http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-got-99-problems-but-a-bitch-aint-one>; I swear to God I got 99 problems but a bitch ain't one /.. – All Me: <http://rap.genius.com/2053385/Drake-all-me/I-swear-to-god-i-got-99-problems-but-a-bitch-aint-one-i-got-99-problems-getting-rich-aint-one>; Spreadshirt Women's 99 Problems But My (1 more message)
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: could the cardano be used as a blackbox key generator? for instance someone once escrow keys that are one time use, the device can sign a message utilizing these generated keys, but they are inevitably destroyed, and no one has true record of the private keys used to sign said message
gribble: Error: "got" is not a valid command.
mircea_popescu: Dimsler what a stupid q lol. how would they enforce a limit ?
asciilifeform: i will be, for at least another ten minutes, then i go & take break from computer, cut a little aluminum
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: it relates to "intended use". I want to know if a certain scenario is in scope.
mircea_popescu: so basically... just as long as wasn't a big shit.
mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> kakobrekla as painless as taking a shit << ouch :D
nubbins`: gonna wait a few days to verify cc fees and do the same in reverse
nubbins`: kakobrekla as painless as taking a shit
nubbins`: imagine, buying btc with a credit card
nubbins`: o wow, just signed up for a circle account and used it for the first time
mircea_popescu: xanthyos got a problem down there ?
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu i have a quick question about the cardano
mircea_popescu: "Die Antwoord (pronounced [di'ɑnt.ʋoːrt], translation: "The Answer") is a South African rap-rave group formed in Cape Town in 2008."
mircea_popescu: fluffypony sounds like a decent recipe for humor neh ?
nubbins`: chetty, there's a die antwoord song featuring a xhosa guy talking about circumcision
asciilifeform: good book, but you need to be a kid to appreciate imho
moldysnizz: Well, I have a shit-ton of reading now. Thanks for the info.
asciilifeform: or is this another 'basic stamp' where 'pr0gr4m w1th0ut pr0gr4mm1ng like a l33t ch1xx0r' affair ?
mircea_popescu: davout http://bitbet.us/bet/826/bitcoin-central-out-of-business-in-2014/#c4057 << you got a comment on this ?
asciilifeform: how hard is it to plant a micro in a breadboard or simple pcb ?
asciilifeform: moldysnizz: this particular item (trng) is a very simple but safety-critical (hence amount of effort spent on it) component of a larger apparatus.
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: they're 'atmel'-something-or-others with a bunch of convenient plugs, yeah?
kakobrekla has a few
mircea_popescu: moldysnizz a prototype, yes.
moldysnizz: Is this like a Arduino?
moldysnizz: mircea_popescu, did you ever get a decent prototype of that RNG device working?
moldysnizz: He has a wife you know
gribble: I think we're dead - YouTube: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvct5fgEH_U>; Police Officer steals Marijuana. - YouTube: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnZb5wi_jsU>; What 3 things did you learn while you were in a near-death - TED.com: <http://www.ted.com/conversations/2306/what_3_things_did_you_learn_wh.html>
kakobrekla: isnt that a bit fast
asciilifeform: 'time was flowing at a constant rate of one second per second!'
mircea_popescu: unfortunately, it is a skill i seem to have mysplaced myself ;/
jurov: dat my mind. just produced a thought "what if we measure trilema entropy? and what if it ends up being over-unity?"
TheNewDeal: It was mostly a joke, on the topic of rand() ya know
moldysnizz: It's pretty good so far. Slept in. No one around but a couple of dogs. Still breathing... Good shit right here.
mircea_popescu: do this : hire a chick wherever your studio is located. i'll pay for her tiome, give her an xchat terminal and she can read my replies.
mircea_popescu: what's a hangout ?
justusranvier: Maybe one of these days you could get on a Hangout with us for a Q&A.
justusranvier: Instead of just teaching classes to the people who show up in person it spreads the reach a bit
mircea_popescu: Michael Goldstein presentats a tutorial on GPG contracts and the #bitcoin-otc web of trust. < that ?
mircea_popescu: ;;rate PeterL 1 Guy fucked up his glbse assets 3 years ago. This is a fact. That fact may be explained as a smart guy failing in a soup of idiots, and the optimist in me is inclined towards it.
ThickAsThieves: being a loner is where it's at
chetty: been a few years since I did that sort of stuff but back then giving up and hiring a company was best move I made
ThickAsThieves: i learned by doing and it took a couple years to clean up the mess
ThickAsThieves: it does make it easy, but at the risk of not knowing wtf to do if you have a problem and no accounting support
ThickAsThieves: <+ben_vulpes> one guy says to hire a whole payroll company /// in my experience doing your own payroll via QBO is better than paying ADP or such, but only if your staff knows some amount of accounting and tax filing
mats_cd03: minecraft is a big deal and i think that's often understated in this channel
ben_vulpes: one guy says to hire a whole payroll company
ThickAsThieves: "Hi, I'm interested in developing integration apps with Quickbooks online. May I sign up for a one year developer account?" too late Intuit
ThickAsThieves: lol Intuit just responded to a 2yr-old service request from a developer that used to work for me
ThickAsThieves: "Create a password" "minimum 6 characters"
ThickAsThieves: "The machines being tested were collectively hashing at a rate of 12 terrahashes per second (TH/s). At that time, this comprised approximately 3 percent of the hash rate of the entire bitcoin network."
assbot: Logged on 27-09-2014 19:41:17; kakobrekla: (first day i had it, it flew about 3m vertically on a concrete floor)
assbot: Logged on 29-09-2014 03:06:03; decimation: before this one I actually had a nexus 4 (2013 model) for a month, dropped it from 18 inches and it cracked
mats_cd03: 03:06:03 decimation:before this one I actually had a nexus 4 (2013 model) for a month, dropped it from 18 inches and it cracked <<there's a 2013 model? whats the difference with 2012?
mircea_popescu: RagnarDanneskjol well how are you going to put the hash in a block retroactively ?
RagnarDanneskjol: are there any time-bending' methods for proving a doc [notarized electronically*] is not added[forged] to db AFTER some point in time? like a 'carbondated' irrefutable binary marker [or tensor more like]. for instance, unique single use keypair for each new calendar day thats signed by [or a hash of] some other newly generated 'time-dependent' keypair + 'something else'[ie classified new
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller no. girls aren't required to fuck anyone and yet they're well terrified of not doing a good job in bed.
ben_vulpes: if i see this day i will be a happy man.
ben_vulpes: in 20 years, a bitcoin implementation may be software people's "masterpiece" work - eg the piece of work that grants one the title of "master" in the field.