asciilifeform: 'Minutes later, Trooper Vanderwiel arrived with the dog, which alerted on the back area of the car. That gave Simmons and Vanderwiel probable cause to search the vehicle without a warrant or the driver’s consent.' << lol re: the obvious implication, the beasts are trained to 'signal' on command rather than search
asciilifeform: (for folks reading this who have no idea - there was not a film called 'stierlitz', but it is the cover name of the hero in iconic ru multiparter '17 moments of spring.')
asciilifeform: most return comms from illegals were via 'dead drop'
asciilifeform: after the war, it was almost unheard of to have 2way traffic at all
asciilifeform: and reduce mistakes (professional 'morse man' and skilled 'illegal' is like asking to hire a pro racing driver who is also an expert cocksucker)
asciilifeform: it was mainly to shorten total 'on air' time, to make triangulation harder
asciilifeform: i have no idea what usa used, probably same.
asciilifeform: the ru version was a very simple stapler-shaped gizmo that punched holes in old 35mm film
asciilifeform: hand >> incidentally, this was part of the reason why shortly after the war, most intelligence orgs moved to mechanical (punched tape) operation
asciilifeform: 'hand' here is in the sense of 'handwriting'
asciilifeform: not to be confused with 'telegrapher's glass arm' disease
asciilifeform: morse 'hand' is a thing, ask anyone who still deals with it
asciilifeform: namely - if you're operating using some other, incompatible abstraction - the result will be demonstrable nonsense.
asciilifeform: it's not even a 'technology' in the sense semiconductor is - but more as arithmetic is.
asciilifeform: no one will even think to mention 'wot-based' gizmo in the future, just as when you buy a pc now - the crate does not bother to say 'semiconductor-based'
asciilifeform: (a rusty nail semiconducts, if you know where on it to stick a probe. this is how 'coherer' - first radio receiver - worked, though its inventor did not know this)
asciilifeform: imho it is an inevitable discovery, like semiconductor.
asciilifeform: interestingly, mr mold invented almost precisely the same scheme, afaik independently, neither of us lifted from the other
asciilifeform: decided that it would be a particularly apt name for the ideal 'crucifix' against the vampires in question.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: incidentally, i lifted 'kyristor' name not from the obvious place, but from a zoological exploration of a peculiarly malignant femiderp re: 'kyriarchy'
asciilifeform: which is, that to the victim's nose it distantly resembles the real thing - but has an ulterior motive baked in.
asciilifeform: in fact, 'reddit' gizmos can be seen as a specially broken case of wot - having the same relationship to wot as baited rat poison has to food
asciilifeform: in the sense that it is the only solution - yes.
asciilifeform: (an individual could be a 'node' on any number of orthogonal wots, such as film tastes, mathematics, etc)
asciilifeform: ^ my ancient failed attempt at 'wot.' was to be used with another (never happened) apparatus, 'sollipse,' for running a 'multiverse' of wots.☟︎
asciilifeform: undata: you need 'wot' baked in or you get idiots gaming the ratio system, the way they did on 1990s bbs.
asciilifeform: (it was all crud long-overdue for the recycling vats from the moment of printing, naturally)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: reminds me of a tale from the pet. she was once given a bag of 'books' by a 'friend' who vaguely recalled that she 'likes reading books.'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: another example. want w4r3z copy of 'winblows' ? easy as fart. want the leaked microshit source? (why!?!? but that's another question) - harder.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: none of the major 'libraries' have '% ratios' though
asciilifeform: and the language barrier mostly (not always!) keeps enemy at bay
asciilifeform: it also works by having some specificity - as in, 'only books that were actual books once'
asciilifeform: undata: 'obscure' here is almost by definition - that which is not found on 'pirate bay' and the like
asciilifeform: warez censor is not the only mouse in the warehouse. there's moth and dust, father time.
asciilifeform: it goes beyond 'where do i put l337 w4r3z'
asciilifeform: it's a serious problem, and folks who don't routinely discuss 20+ year old, moderately-obscure documents don't even know the beginning of it.
asciilifeform: in fact, many folks arrived at 'proof of work' and something akin to our current concept of 'blockchain' by attempting to answer the 'who gets to add bits' question.
