asciilifeform: lol!

asciilifeform: when they don't grow little legs at customs office

asciilifeform: typically.

asciilifeform eats considerably more food than gizmo

asciilifeform: i'd still rather eat actual food and have to import gizmos, than vice-versa

asciilifeform: we can always do a build for whatever nas-gizmotron -is- available down there.

asciilifeform: i'll be sure to bring a few.

asciilifeform: can it be had in the land of the colocolo and ocelot ?

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: have one yet ?

asciilifeform: 170700.

asciilifeform: without tw3nty y34rz m4nh0urz

asciilifeform: because, apparently, no man alive can derive them again

asciilifeform: according to that pile of shit on cryptome, the 'bugs' were mainly omissions of component values in an analogue circuit.

asciilifeform: aha.

asciilifeform: again, reminder for readers, these are -not- orphan blocks in the sense of 'orphaned transactions' and dead tree branches

asciilifeform: d3st4b1l1z1ng our m4rk3tz!

asciilifeform: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/01/27/this-alleged-russian-spy-ring-was-interested-in-some-very-dangerous-things/?tid=hybrid_alt1_strip_2 << in other news, 'oh noez, wreckerz!'

asciilifeform: http://cryptome.org/2015/01/sterling-exhibits-105-108-nyt-15-0117.pdf http://cryptome.org/2015/01/sterling-cia-exhibits.pdf ^ for those interested. (mostly scans of primary docs)

asciilifeform: m the chapter at issue and had a motive to discuss his clandestine work. They argued that the book — which suggested that the secret operation might actually have helped further Iran’s nuclear research — was somewhat inaccurate and that it cast Sterling as a hero and the CIA as hapless.'

asciilifeform: 'The case against Sterling was largely circumstantial — there were no recorded phone conversations or captured e-mail exchanges that show that he leaked classified information to Risen — and that required prosecutors’ to delve deeply into Sterling’s work and the details of Risen’s book. By prosecutors’ account, Sterling was the only potential source who had a relationship with Risen, knew all of the information fro

asciilifeform: the farce was made public some time around '06, iirc.

asciilifeform: (they're on 'cryptome')

asciilifeform: in order to convict him

asciilifeform: usg ended up grudgingly trotting out all of the original documents proving that every word was true

asciilifeform: this was leaked by the fella in that picture

asciilifeform: like, in minutes.

asciilifeform: he did not know the bugs were deliberate... promptly fixed.

asciilifeform: the latter decided it was fit for disinfo use, and sent ru chump to iran to sell it

asciilifeform: (cia told them nothing)

asciilifeform: monkeys puttered around for an entire quarter and fixed one of the half dozen or so deliberate mistakes

asciilifeform: plans were doctored (subtly embugged) and given to sandia (iirc) labs to test

asciilifeform: the 'later' came when another ru nuke jockey defected

asciilifeform: but they shelved it, for later

asciilifeform: it was of no use to usa because, well, had own

asciilifeform: ru nuke man defected with drawings for detonator electronics

asciilifeform: mod6: not yet

asciilifeform: basic summary:

asciilifeform: and involved a hilarious usg idiocy

asciilifeform: this case dragged on for years

asciilifeform: ^ mega-lol

asciilifeform: http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/jurors-tell-judge-they-cant-agree-in-cia-leak-trial-of-jeffrey-sterling/2015/01/26/db819f78-a57c-11e4-a7c2-03d37af98440_story.html?tid=hybrid_alt1_strip_1 ☟︎

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: barrel resource ~= 1000 rounds.

asciilifeform: ^ no, not a nazi crematorium. home furnace.

asciilifeform: https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4096/4859575833_98a4daecd2_z.jpg

asciilifeform: http://inspectapedia.com/heat/octopus1df.jpg << here we go!

asciilifeform: with the one habitable 10 sq. m. or so, converted into a toilet and gigantic bathtub

asciilifeform: (converted attic)

asciilifeform: and a 'second floor' that was about 1m tall

asciilifeform: sinking into the earth

asciilifeform: also had what was apparently an extension, with entirely different inclination

asciilifeform: as in, put a marble on the floor and it will roll.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: there was also a memorable house that wasn't level.

asciilifeform: but it did

asciilifeform: not sure why that thing made such an impression on me

asciilifeform: or rather, there was a space between floor 0 and 1

asciilifeform: but no ducts

asciilifeform: there was propeller

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: found it! turns out, these were called 'floor furnace'.

asciilifeform: but still there, on account of no one having paid to have it cut with torches and removed

asciilifeform: was nominally retired in favour of forced-air system clumsily retrofitted (fat hose in each room, shedding insulation)

asciilifeform: enormous propeller inside, and diesel oil tank on other end of room.

asciilifeform: that thing - was actually a cylindrical beast, 3 or so metres tall, ~2 wide

asciilifeform: i have one here.

asciilifeform: for ducts

asciilifeform: these are normal forced air furnaces

asciilifeform: eh no

asciilifeform thought it was unique to that one dump

asciilifeform wants to see photos of it

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: on rereading log - that jet engine heater - exists elsewhere ?!

asciilifeform: 169763

asciilifeform: mike_c: unless you were very careful, node may have problems receiving newly born blocks.

asciilifeform: tsssh-ssss.

asciilifeform: just picture the sizzling iron, 'S' for sp4mz0r, ...

asciilifeform: as a pill against 'it won't affect my business'

asciilifeform: as in, hot iron. ☟︎

asciilifeform: but branding.

asciilifeform: not the idiot american marketing term

asciilifeform: if there's one thing ancient wots had over ours, it was branding.

asciilifeform: and (at least presently) the white kidz can't be placed just anywhere

asciilifeform: because you gotta put all those warm bodies somewhere

asciilifeform: but in practice there are 'grandfathered exceptions' etc

asciilifeform: yes. every major population centre.

asciilifeform: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorpromazine#mediaviewer/File:Thorazine_advert.jpg << lol!

asciilifeform: chlorpromazine ?

asciilifeform: (what kind of dope is a direct opposite of 'speed' ?)

asciilifeform: more like retardation

asciilifeform: who conceived of this, and on what drug

asciilifeform: why the fuck does it even fetch block n when n-1 is not present ?

asciilifeform: aside from the twirly-knobs

asciilifeform: decimation: with the disappearance of forced use of tape to push the requisite bit heaps, no longer any reason for dedicated 'video computer'

asciilifeform: as well as moving, well, sequences, around.

asciilifeform: (a sequencer typically has provisions for playback, and entry from external device)

asciilifeform: decimation: typesetting - not sequencing

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: just about everyone knows an 'arts type' with his photoshit

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: wat ?

asciilifeform: (i'd love to know why)

asciilifeform: nothing like it was built again

asciilifeform: who remembers the finnish ftp search engine?

asciilifeform: the bright things - vanished

asciilifeform: the evil things of that time - all are still there, in some zombie form (aol, yahoo, microshit)