asciilifeform: (an 'arm' cpu, fat ram, and... an emulator of the 1980s calcs)
asciilifeform: as i understand, they've introduced a few devices where this 'problem' is 'fixed'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: on account of the designs dating back to the mid '80s
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: surprisingly, the calculators use very well-understood, ancient components
asciilifeform: 1.5b for ibm's chip div. << state of maryland could have bought one and a half of these for the cost of road 200 (a recently built, money-losing toll road i frequent.)
asciilifeform: b) if set off, because receiver was built from shoebox, string and dead squirrel - this is meant to happen -before- the truck reaches the mine
asciilifeform: to avoid interference from neighbours' teledildoes
asciilifeform: wouldn't you set off << a) no, because, e.g., toy car or phone has a discriminator - required bitstring (a la 'MAC address') that must match
asciilifeform: what's actually inside? unsurprisingly, a catalogue of frequencies used by cellular, wireless housephones, toy cars, teledildoes...
asciilifeform: e.g., r. poisel's 'communications electronic warfare systems'
asciilifeform: the particular apparatus involved is discussed in reasonably clear terms in textbooks
asciilifeform: 'The Secret Service uses covert radio-frequency jammers inside a Chevrolet Suburban that travels with the president’s motorcade. These devices disable remotely triggered improvised bombs. But because they have to disable explosives set off by a potentially large number of frequencies, the jammers saturate a wide spectrum, occasionally interfering with cellphones nearby.' << this deserves an aside
asciilifeform: 'A Homeland Security sensor deployed to spot — but not interfere with — drones flying above the Major League Baseball All-Star Game in Minneapolis last July “cost several hundred thousand dollars to operate for just that night,” reported the New York Times.'
asciilifeform: 'state ipad', but one nitpick, this presumes that somewhere there lives a 'normal' one.
asciilifeform: 'of course we must assume that the adversary owns the network. this is why nukes must be expected to fly anywhere at all, .... ...'
asciilifeform: decimation: that article has the beginnings of a glorious 'onion piece'
asciilifeform: the 'obamaphone' (not the one handed out to paupers, the other obamaphone) is well-known at this point
asciilifeform: who wants to be the first to buy a certified pre-owned (tm) ru nuke sub as mr buffett ?
asciilifeform: when some hobo successfully impersonates obama, or buffett - then.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: usg does not care (or even encourages, see earlier 'house-buying' postdoc story) about a plebe impersonating another plebe.
asciilifeform: (openly discussed in agency-authorized historical texts)
asciilifeform: that was conclusively suppressed after u.s. civil war, iirc.
asciilifeform: (for n00bs: http://www.loper-os.org/?p=1323 << describes, among other things, the curious fact that within usg, only specially trained gnomes are permitted the privilege of generating keys, for use by all ranks from private to president)
asciilifeform: it would be unthinkable for anyone other than usg to wipe arses, if this were practical.
asciilifeform: a number of common household tools in the photo
asciilifeform: decimation: looks like that fella wins 'beggar of the year' ?
asciilifeform: system tends to inject bezzlars randomly throughout the 'real' economy << at this point, this is not unlike worrying about the health effects of the embalming solution undertakers inject into their 'patients'
asciilifeform: they also get best of both worlds if the victim is retarded, and saddles himself with the debt
asciilifeform: and, having the option to be rid of this mess, he took it
asciilifeform: they caught the woman, eventually, and there was some penalty (a light one, iirc) but it did not send the creditors back to the holes they crawled out of
asciilifeform: we all want to use mircea_popescu's bank of mars.
asciilifeform once worked with a nearly-penniless foreign postdoc whose departure from usa was hastened by some bureaucrat (who handled his papers) deciding to... buy a house in his name☟︎
asciilifeform: the biggest criminal, usg, makes most of it.
asciilifeform: checking << known to everyone you ever write a cheque to...
asciilifeform: which is known to ten thousand waiters.
