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mircea_popescu: decimation it means, "try and leech as much as you can off the young and impressionable females before a determined and disinterested young male gores you."
mircea_popescu: "promotion = much more responsibility, not much more money" etc.
mircea_popescu: soon the same old jokes from the 70s are going to begin to circulate once more.
mircea_popescu: and so a position "of power" was a terrible curse no one wanted.
mircea_popescu: not exactly. more important in practice - the need to cut the grass.
mircea_popescu: feudalism empowers he with most knights, the rest - he wight less concern.
mircea_popescu: decimation the problem with a "democracy", aka representative democracy aka people's soviet is that the victory is always to the fearless.
mircea_popescu: Guest64542 since you use the web platform andso prolly don't have a local log.
mircea_popescu: god fucking help you if i stand up in the "political meeting" and ask you about X.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform remember the power of the "people's denouncing" in there ? that's the equivalent.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform anyway, i guess this makes me the first of that evil species of barristish sticklers that you all love to hate that you ever met.
mircea_popescu: i like a challenge as much as the next fellow, i guess.
mircea_popescu: Guest64542 as far as i'm concerned, there's a crowd of silly people somewhere on the web that tricked a dc into bankruptcy. yes.
mircea_popescu: gotta absolutely have /10001 so the next one is /10002 ?
mircea_popescu: but seriously, you're all tech savvy people. who the fuck claims to have, you know, "built the site with security in mind" then makes the db trivially iterable because couldn't be bothered to hash the anything ? would something like user/F2xWjk been so very hard ?
mircea_popescu: but seriously, they're total fucking idiots. i even had a lengthy comment explaining to the derp in charge how to salt and hash
mircea_popescu: turned into a service for folks too poor to afford a lawyer.
mircea_popescu: what started as a service for folks too simple to understand why they do not wish to be /user/1004555
mircea_popescu: im not about to put anyone in prison. this is about money Chillum .
mircea_popescu: "uh... we just ... didn't wanna do it anymore your honor." "shut up. sit down. "
mircea_popescu: misusing it in this manner is a misdemeanor, and more importantly, a path to civil liability.
mircea_popescu: the dmca does not provide for an avenue to enforce anything you wish.
mircea_popescu: decimation the dc could claim absolutely anything they wish. the standard still is preponderence of evidence.
mircea_popescu: generally these end in settlements, to avoid the ever balooning costs.
mircea_popescu: there is such a thing as joint and several liability. let the dc sue them.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i don't intend to pursue some dubious "start-up" in canada on the strength of the declarations of some otherwise proven liar / confused internet person.
mircea_popescu: anyway, it's a sad state of affairs for actual providers. they're stuck in the middle. can't really pay good lawyers, can't really exactly judge when customer is going to turn around and bitchslap them with a ten ton hammer...
mircea_popescu: if you have any experience with contemporary us law, this should be a familiar pattern
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform dmca is EXACTLY and specifically drawn so large players can squash annoyances, but also minor players trying to do the same get totally raped.
mircea_popescu: oh, i'm not suing some bankruipt derps in canada, who cares about them.
mircea_popescu: wait until you read into the statutory damages for dmca fraud.
mircea_popescu: internet brigading is a great way to deal with nobodies, but you run the risk of stepping on the tail of someone who is actually powerful, on occasion, at which point the whole thing backfires.
mircea_popescu: as a warning for later muppets on the score of "fuck with people you don't know"
mircea_popescu: and so ima sue them for all they got and move the blog.
mircea_popescu: today the dc nulled that ip, which brings them into liability over the matter, as the complaint is clearly spurious,
mircea_popescu: waited ten days, reinstated the content, forgot all about it.
mircea_popescu: some dude claiming to be "from fetlife" made a proper dmca notification, which i counter-notified
mircea_popescu: i pointed out to the dc that if it abuses dmca notice process in this way it'll end up liable, and linked them to caselaw.
mircea_popescu: aite. so basically, i saw something, said something. fetlife misjudged itself, and sent a spurious "trademark infringement" claim to the dc.
mircea_popescu: Guest64542 so you're entirely foreign to the bitcoin space, then ?
mircea_popescu: im not trying to accomplish anything. hm... what exactly is your interest in this thing ?
mircea_popescu: Guest64542 i ended up making a profile at some point. read some "build from the ground up with security in mind" verbiage from the baku character, sounded exactly like the bitcoin scammer broken record.
mircea_popescu: i honestly believe ed is actually a better wiki than wikipedia.
mircea_popescu: Guest64542 actually, they are picking a fight with me. i generally end fights.