asciilifeform: so, 142km between shooter and victim.

asciilifeform: say, 160km.

asciilifeform: let's also assume that the sat was in leo.

asciilifeform: decimation: let's assume that the thing was flying at the ceiling

asciilifeform: decimation: service ceiling of the j20 is, according strictly to rumour, 18km.

asciilifeform: decimation: let's play with the satellite thing

asciilifeform: and ^

asciilifeform: ^ no proper rng in any of the machines discussed here

asciilifeform: laptop, palmtop (can get ms-dos!) etc

asciilifeform: why even interested in the subject then

asciilifeform: herbijudlestoids: if 'software-based' is what you want, i don't get it, you already own a computer ?

asciilifeform: burn, new

asciilifeform: ^

asciilifeform: herbijudlestoids: what if you want to patch your hypothalamus ?

asciilifeform wishes he had a bitcent for every 'here's how you can make a quick cardano' letter

asciilifeform: !up herbijudlestoids

asciilifeform: decimation: vernam (otp, xor) is trivial - mechanically or otherwise

asciilifeform: decimation: also considered the nearly equally impractical ttl logic variant.

asciilifeform: decimation: laugh, but i actually considered this.

asciilifeform head-desks

asciilifeform: why even.

asciilifeform: how about a vax and a vt100.

asciilifeform: we already had herbijudlestoids's idea, see.

asciilifeform: dirty if you drag it on the ground first

asciilifeform: very quick

asciilifeform: a brick on a rope.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: imho time spent on 0.9.x other than mining for zoological data (mutilations, fixes) is wasted

asciilifeform: herbijudlestoids: the basic idea, if i dare suggest that there is one, is a pedigreed 0.5.3 and a sequence of man-readable patches, signed by folks known to one another.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu inb4

asciilifeform: aha

asciilifeform: herbijudlestoids: there is also a phoundation pushing crock'o'shit

asciilifeform: herbijudlestoids: this is the actual foundation

asciilifeform: decimation: could not change.

asciilifeform: decimation: hence you can infer - real owner has not changed.

asciilifeform: decimation: the orbital nukes - do.

asciilifeform: decimation: difference is that those ^ don't actually need to work

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: who pays for launching the lead ?

asciilifeform: but this is a hatephact

asciilifeform: phun phact: radhard ic is quite arguably obsolete - similar effect can be had using tandems

asciilifeform: decimation: you can probably guess that they didn't do it because 'smart', but because eternal contracts signed, likely, five or six presidents ago

asciilifeform: decimation: their competitors are now whining, 'we want too!111!!!11'

asciilifeform: decimation: there was a scandal that broke not long ago, where it came out that usg is single-handedly keeping a number of fabs (mostly rad-hard stuff) in business

asciilifeform: decimation: calculate what each unit would have to cost, approximately, for the vendor to stand any chance of breaking even

asciilifeform: decimation: they can claim whatever they like

asciilifeform: decimation: it's inventory liquidation

asciilifeform: decimation: 7000 sold/yr is not 'continued production' on the planet i live in

asciilifeform: aha timesharing

asciilifeform: ?

asciilifeform: what does herbijudlestoids sell, again?

asciilifeform: or stillborn ones

asciilifeform: thought this was about annihilated scientific fields

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: sad thing is, idiots denied apa/ietf/international association of bloodletting & phlogiston - will reinvent them..

asciilifeform: just astonishing that 2011 never ends

asciilifeform: should we even ask.

asciilifeform: '...featured a proof of reserve page which reassured members...' << how does a www page 'prove reserve' ?

asciilifeform: or wait, they had btc too ?

asciilifeform: 'The altcoin exchange Excoin has announced that it will soon shut down after alleging that an attacker was able to withdraw all the bitcoins from the exchange. With a trading engine written in Go, Excoin launched what was predominantly a Blackcoin exchange...' << in other news, some animal stole the heap of shit a fox deposited in my yard.

asciilifeform will show the next attempt at a proper fix reasonably soon.

asciilifeform is not at all interested in running infinitely-memcancerous bitcoind nor can recommend it to others. but also cannot recommend the experimental patch.

asciilifeform: thestringpuller: http://therealbitcoin.org/ml/btc-dev/2015-January/000038.html

asciilifeform: classical or orphanage-burning ?

asciilifeform: which 'this'

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: ugh what is that

asciilifeform: but doesn't tell whether can run. only that isn't out of the race yet.

asciilifeform: or one that's been shot

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: yes, you can eliminate horse with missing leg

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: how to tell if horse can-run-quickly without seeing it run ?

asciilifeform: iirc

asciilifeform: this is not an interesting story per se except in the form of advice to young folks like BingoBoingo - don't do it!

asciilifeform thus had many strange plans, as a young man, for how to narrow the set

asciilifeform suffers from a peculiarly obscene perversion: has a hard time taking an interest in gurlz detectably stupider than him

asciilifeform did not actually carry out this experiment! but was setting up for a variation on the theme, and this got out in his social circle

asciilifeform: SHOW IT TO THE WOMAN << lol, mircea_popescu must have spoken with asciilifeform's $pet re: how they met

asciilifeform: not for $user at least

asciilifeform: walk into $targetrichenvironment and discover soon - no targets

asciilifeform: actually i suspect that the fun would stop very soon after strapping on (presumably it would have to be worn at waist level! disguised as a fly button?!)

asciilifeform: lol

asciilifeform: 'if man was meant to fly... given wings' - ?

asciilifeform: but some folks might find a use.

asciilifeform: now, mircea_popescu does not need this instrument, eagle does not need a glider

asciilifeform: rather than absolute value

asciilifeform: always warm << one would presumably be looking for the deltas.

asciilifeform: ^ took surprisingly long to dredge up

asciilifeform: http://www.blogadilla.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/hypercolor-products.jpg

asciilifeform: nope, precisely the fact that -did- work..

asciilifeform: (and it had nothing to do with infections)

asciilifeform: but were phased out, guess why

asciilifeform: even pants

asciilifeform: for a short time in 1980s, liquid crystal thermo-indicator shirts were fashionable in usa

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: actually - precedent

asciilifeform: (except ebola scanner)

asciilifeform: nobody needs that

asciilifeform: not of whole body!

asciilifeform: at short (sword) range

asciilifeform: this'd be more of a prosthetic version of some folks' ability to 'read body signs' of arousal/lack thereof

asciilifeform: presumably would be used for selection narrowing in target-rich environment

asciilifeform is out of his depth, does not know if wunderwaffen based on arousal monitoring via far ir thermovisor is a plausible thing

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=22-04-2014#634660 << related ☝︎

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: target selector ?

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: it lets in various 'fun' like letting everything running on machine send arbitrary commands to virtually any gtk app (e.g., 'xchat')