asciilifeform: mircea_popescu does not do half-measures!
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what'd you do with a time machine << lol, obviously, hop in
asciilifeform: no tumbling at close range. shockwave - yes.
asciilifeform can't help but remember ancient, trashy soviet film about an inventor kid, who builds a magic time-machine thingie from a phone booth, and retrieves, inevitably - grandpa lenin - who smiles and approves of his life
asciilifeform: the signed patches should provide watertight alibis for the innocent, and unquestionable smoking guns for the guilty - but a sufficiently 'pants and suspenders' approach should send a message to enemy against even trying.
asciilifeform: at any rate, it seems like we're on the path to a 'patch-chain' - so no chance of authorship being permanently obscured, unless everyone somehow manages to lose his backup
asciilifeform: as per kakobrekla's stern warning some weeks ago, a full-bore approach (complete with future gallows) for shitgnomes has the flipside of needing to ensure against ending up swinging there by mistake.
asciilifeform somehow thought that original spec called for precisely this
asciilifeform: i think BingoBoingo linked to one vendor recently.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: laugh, but in usa there are folks who mod that rifle to take belt.
asciilifeform: there are even tricks to turn some extant models into a usable 'microscope.'
asciilifeform: modern optical mouse is actually a b&w camera with some dsp magic glued on.
asciilifeform: the mats (originally solid aluminum?) had reflective strips, a la road paint
asciilifeform: i own such a mouse, came with a prehistoric 'sun pizza box.' they have very little in common with modern optical mice - simply a pair of photodiodes and matching emitters
asciilifeform: i'll guess that he started with a clean satoshi-era snapshot - brought up to compatibility with extant network
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: as it is, i venture to guess that it's been done, so far, only by folks who live and die by the result, and aren't terribly eager to share live 'weaponized' code (people such as mircea)
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: if it were trivial, it would've been done by a dilettante and result posted publicly.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: you think we're the first to try ripping the graffiti off ?
asciilifeform: punkman: all rubber membrane keyboards (virtually anything you'll find in a store today) are washable.
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: recall the 'buried treasure' discussion?
asciilifeform: tell-tale smell of 'planetary allocation chit' - market worth of $item in usd (or whatever sane alternative, barrels of cement) never goes down.
asciilifeform: jurov: afaik, that junk is only ever sold if owner died or 'needs the money'
asciilifeform: i dare to hypothesise an inevitable, 'zoological' enmity between folks who own, e.g., picasso canvas, (and understand why they own it!) - and bitcoin.
asciilifeform: threadbare flock, butterball priests, as often is the case
asciilifeform: if theyre krugmanites, they have no wealth to speak of << don't conflate the priests and their flock
asciilifeform: undata: 'clitler' is the next annointed fuhrer. afaik this has been settled.
asciilifeform: i did specify that the pedigreed canvases and pcbs signed by steve jobs are analogous to bitcoin, rather than, say, gold - because, on account of gold being to some degree accessible to plebes, elaborate measures are taken to depress its price - no such equivalent for the picassos.
asciilifeform: these folks have, like any elite, vast personal wealth (also an ocean of bezzle, yes)
asciilifeform: that's for the plebes, bred to be eaten
asciilifeform: TheNewDeal: how many of them keep their wealth in plain usd ?
asciilifeform: i just love how the krugman shitgnomes prattle on about the need for physical 'use-value' in currencies and then go on to bid on apple-1 pcbs and jackson pollack paintings
asciilifeform: who was it who had the essay re: how rich folks use auctionable rarities as a kind of 'bitcoin' but with higher overhead costs ?
asciilifeform: jurov: perhaps i should not have said 'mining' specifically. idea here is that once the buggers give up trying to destroy bitcoin, they will transition to employing any and all tools at their disposal - for robbery.
asciilifeform is not equipped with the evidence needed to agree (or not) with 'it's mostly ok'
asciilifeform: or, at the very least, prevent the 'wrong people' from building.
asciilifeform: it is far cheaper and easier to steal existing capacity.
