asciilifeform: two men in an entirely dark room, with nagants, take turns calling out 'cuckoo'
asciilifeform: another game, invented by the same folks who brought us 'russian roulette' (imperial-era cavalry officers, bored out of their skulls) was called 'cuckoo'
asciilifeform: i tell this story because english speakers invariably speak of 'russian roulette' without knowing this tidbit.
asciilifeform: the 'correct' (honest) way to play was to pull trigger while spinning.
asciilifeform: so folks would play (on a bet, naturally) with opponent who did not know this.
asciilifeform: the way it was built, the ratchet was not engaged when drum was spinning. a single round would settle to the bottom (opposite of barrel line.)
asciilifeform: TheNewDeal: they're reasonably common in usa. the revelation: one could cheat.
asciilifeform: TheNewDeal: ever see 'nagant' revolver? the item 'russian roulette' was originally played with.
asciilifeform: well - the spittoon is here. shiny, new, brass. spit away, gentlemen.
asciilifeform wonders if this escapade will progress much faster than one could reasonably expect, on account of people like jurov, mircea_popescu, ben_vulpes - who actually use bitcoin 'in anger' - succumbing to the temptation to release some of their secret mods.
asciilifeform: but the canonical copy (to the extent this term makes sense here) should probably be distributed via jurov's turdatron.
asciilifeform would like to turn this into an unofficial 'gentoo' overlay at some point
asciilifeform: layer of protection could be very useful for a lot of people in the future, the way things are going in most of the world. We do have the stripper for the S-64 that strips the hidden data from a StegoSaur file, but it really should go both ways."'
asciilifeform: '...since there're SO many Sega 64s floating around in the States and indeed, the world, there's probably many people alive today who wouldn't be if their governments could crack their secure messages. I'm told that at least two democratic revolutions were made possible, in part, due to PGP S-64. Right now, myself and several others are attempting to create a version of StegoSaur for the S-64. That one extra
asciilifeform: wasn't it illegal to have a game machine with rng << reminds me of...
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: at any rate, this is doubly funny to me, given that i grew up associating apple hardware with 'decadent rich'
asciilifeform: anybody else here built the test turd?
asciilifeform: utility connections count as 'credit' in usa
asciilifeform: over here, they give'em to folks who've gone bankrupt and lowered into pederasty on account of it
asciilifeform: safest places i;'ve ever been in are convinced hteir problem is "security" << gedankenexperiment. who is likely to see a free-range lion as an irritant? inhabitant of savannah, or of new york where one escaped from zoo?
asciilifeform: stun gun is that it gets used on me << in some u.s. cities, policemen are required to take a zap gun shot before they are licensed.
asciilifeform: well, there are various folks living with 'pet' tigers, lions. famous joker with 7 tigers, was it, in brazil? i sorta assumed mircea_popescu's pets were similarly tame.
