asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu i was reading a circa-1958 issue of american magazine 'popular science', and guess what was in it - http://imgur.com/mZnf775☟︎
asciilifeform: i'm going to confess now that i implemented this...
asciilifeform: a 4096-bit rsa signature and key fp fit handily in a udp minimal packet.☟︎
asciilifeform: all comms answered in priority of wot rank.
asciilifeform: back to syn packets, signed breath-of-life neatly licks ddos.
asciilifeform: this is not high science, it was the original intent of the lowly gnu autoconf, even.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this is why, in my unofficial wonderland, you can't even open a socket without transmitting an rsa-signed a 'this is me, and my wot' breath of life packet.☟︎
asciilifeform: this may be the source of the reference in question. iirc, 'power rangers' was one such film.
asciilifeform: by same convention, they will only do so at the last minute, when about to be crushed one by one by the forces of evil (tm)
asciilifeform: mats_cd03: there is a film convention, found usually in 'superhero' yarns, where a gang of derps each of whom amounts to exactly nothing, 'combine their powers' and form an invincible killing machine of one kind or another
asciilifeform: take your pick of a sufficiently 'heavy' problem (not necessarily deeply-mathematical, however) and, carry it on long enough, will realize - that we don't really 'have computers.'
asciilifeform: much like the early concept of 'space station' was born from the fact of 'a military satellite's expensive, someone gotta change the vacuum tubes when they burn' -
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: scratch that, it was 'getting started in electronics' (mims)
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: these are my personal favourites from these categories
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: for n00bz, 'basic electronics' (forrest m. mims). for adults, 'art of electronics', horowitz & hill.
asciilifeform: because it had to make sense to author.
asciilifeform: even today, the (rare) malware written in asm, once you get past the obfuscations, is easier to make sense of than conventional (compiled) turds
asciilifeform: at least, in the period when mostly written by hand
asciilifeform: actually it was surprisingly readable
asciilifeform: (where one can have multiple tasks, and each has illusion of owning the machine, swapping from disk on access to physically-nonexisting page, etc. the whole shebang.)
asciilifeform: though 'protected' also added page table and thereby virtual addressing
asciilifeform: real mode, for folks who grew up on mars, far away from msdos: 64k segments (16 bits of address space). and segment selector.
asciilifeform: (various games, and winblows 3.x which used 'protected mode extender' excepted - but when you switch on prot. mode, you're no longer using msdos as such)
