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asciilifeform: ^ ignore the sensational cover, it's a pretty good schoolbook
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: How do I get a stack trace?
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: there was talk a few yrs ago (russian) regarding a mesh net built on modern radio hardware in mexican mountains. supposedly destroyed (via agenture methods, no fancy tech)
asciilifeform: 'But maybe "computer" is the wrong word. It's actually an iron box with a padlock. Also known as a computer whose security model is simple enough to understand and whose operating system is known completely enough to trust.'
mircea_popescu: trilema serves 5gb a day on average. maybe you're just becoming famous ?
BingoBoingo: That is a beautiful situation you fell into
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Never had access to the civilopedia... Civ II was the only Civ at walmart and I was running a 486 at the time
mircea_popescu: were you born in a less dumb culture it'd have been more pleasant.
mircea_popescu: problem is civ was written from a broken (french revolutionary) pov.
BingoBoingo: Ghandi was just a Brown Edward Teller
BingoBoingo: mike_c: GPS sats only get so strong. Most "GPS" relies on indigenous signals to achieve a finer resolution
asciilifeform: (how do we pick it up? open a textbook, pll...)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: re: tale: take with requisite grain of whatever salt, it was told by a russian
asciilifeform: buy 'wifi' locator keychain and a box of old routers.
mike_c: and a HARM
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> a tale was once told to me by one fellow 'in the know': russia sold gps jammers (serious ones, not the chinese pocket gizmos off ebay) to iraq, shortly prior to '03 american invasion. but iraq didn't pay the full invoice. so, the vendor neglected to remind the buyer that they must be arranged in a ring pattern and operated in unison << i heard the same story passed off as successful intel mission, stole
BingoBoingo: Ah, the if Oracle was a Defense Contractor strategy............ =====
asciilifeform: a tale was once told to me by one fellow 'in the know': russia sold gps jammers (serious ones, not the chinese pocket gizmos off ebay) to iraq, shortly prior to '03 american invasion. but iraq didn't pay the full invoice. so, the vendor neglected to remind the buyer that they must be arranged in a ring pattern and operated in unison ☟︎
BingoBoingo: Yeah, US has been using it against any afghan with a Sat phone.
assbot: Hidden Deep Inside the Oregon Woods Is a Boeing 727 and It Wasnt Parked There by Accident | Video | TheBlaze.com
benkay: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/06/09/hidden-deep-inside-the-oregon-woods-is-a-boeing-727-and-it-wasnt-parked-there-by-accident/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=story&utm_campaign=ShareButtons
BingoBoingo: Bunkers and chemsuits would be a bit much here. It's not that close and the wind tend to be favorable... I'm more concerned about the windstorms, but if I'm protecting against that unlike the neighbors buying new windows might as well find a solution that offers utility in a few more situations.
asciilifeform: a fine example, actually, of solving wrong engineering problem
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: notice that the folks who are forced to live 'in a target' on account of their profession, have rather different nukefest preparations than the crap traditionally suggested to commoners
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Well, wind storms are a thing here and... should a hot war start with a nuclear power... I live all to close to Air Mobility command atm to count on these plastic window blinds to save me from radiation poisoning while I wait out the initial fallout's decay.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> that's when i realized that talking about anything worthwhile under a 'tight' alias is arduous to the degree that it's probably not worth it <<
asciilifeform: 'At some point during this period, however, I realized that the entire problem was a complete and utter pseudo-problem. ... So I am very confident that neither of these techniques, neither mine nor Sacco and Vanzetti's, has ever been used in practice. There is no need for them, there has never been any need for them, and there will never be any need for them. And this was quite obvious in 1993.' ☟︎
asciilifeform: 'Sacco and Vanzetti came up with an entirely different solution to the slow-MMU problem, one which if I do say so myself was less imaginative than mine, but both more general and more practical. They published theirs in a real conference, received much acclaim for it, and I believe patented it, started a so-called company and eventually sold it to Microsoft.' ☟︎
asciilifeform: not worth it unless you're paid for the sweat (or perhaps half a step ahead of the gasenwagen...)
asciilifeform: folks who do this for a living (e.g. spying) come with 'cover' biographies and essentially live the life of an actor
asciilifeform: that's when i realized that talking about anything worthwhile under a 'tight' alias is arduous to the degree that it's probably not worth it
BingoBoingo: Interesting that web archeology is a big enough project that there can now be subject specialists.
asciilifeform: ^ yarvin as a kid, when he was more fun
BingoBoingo wonders if Yarvin will revise the Urbit metaphor again when Bitcoin becomes a Naval power...
asciilifeform: one could make a tedious list
mircea_popescu: it's a complex problem
assbot: am i really a good person?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: re: battleship where they piss on patents: there is a smart and a foolish way to do this. the latter - e.g. ussr, where my father and countless other folks copied consumer gizmos from the west. smart way: develop tech that was entombed in patent hell in the west and never really hatched
asciilifeform: a little retro
mircea_popescu: (it's not done yet, but should be in a coupla hours)
mircea_popescu: ok so i ended up picking a link from someone in here and writing a fucking important and grandiose piece.
BingoBoingo: Ah, Texas has some weird laws... I don't think it is legal for a Texan to make eye contact with a Steer and not offer it a handjob.
BingoBoingo: mircea_inglesa: I have a feeling the Argentines are going to start refering to Bitcoin as Money Inglesa before too long...
assbot: Lunea intunericoasa ca sa nu zicem de-a dreptu’ neagra ca-i urit si ne citesc inclusiv copii de tita. pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2012/lunea-intunericoasa-ca-sa-nu-zicem-de-a-dreptu-neagra-ca-i-urit-si-ne-citesc-inclusiv-copii-de-tita/
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: anyone who buys a berth on mp's 'we piss on patents' atomic battleship should give 'cyranose' a thought. << this is a good point actually.
mircea_popescu: "Based on a statistical analysis of the recovered passwords, Hýža constructed two character sets that stood the best chance of quickly cracking the remaining undeciphered passcodes. The shorter of the two contained just 28 characters: acdehiklmnorstu01234579!-.@_"
mircea_popescu: Namworld: Those coins would shatter easily and be kinda troublesome. << yeah the shatter factor is a problem. also, god help you if you're trying to carry say a 20 lb bag of them in the street.
mircea_popescu: ya right. and who even told eduardo decastro he can be a ceo anyway.
mircea_popescu: and on top of it, they get all butthurt when they're treated to a heapful of stfu and go read the logs for a year on the FIRST announcement.
mircea_popescu: mike_c: hashfast ceo one month ago: "I joined this company a month ago because the team is amazing and we are not scammers" | today: "we're bankrupt. I'm outta here" << fucking exactly.
mircea_popescu: anyway, he doesn't have an office, he worked as a sort of that-fat--and-gay-guy-in-high-fidelity
dub: one does not understand a usagi
fluffypony: "And yes, as I mentioned quite a number of times, not only do we have off-site backups I am mirroring daily backups to a Synology DS-4 I keep in my office."
mike_c: aapl is under $100 now! totally a good reason for the stock to shoot up 20%!
mircea_popescu: so maybe you sell them in a year then.
mike_c: gimme a year
mircea_popescu: not unless you're a sovereign yourself, ready able and willing to go to war with the sovereigns backing them
mircea_popescu: a rather close approximation of mpex, for that matter.
mircea_popescu: it's owned by the chinese govt, and a tool of its foreign policy.
mircea_popescu: so there. this is a definite.
mike_c: see? they added a zero.
mircea_popescu: thing has like half a million emplouyees all over theworld.
mircea_popescu: i still can't quite believe icbc is listed as a pink wtf bbq
mike_c: unless my math is borked, that is a hefty pe for a company that big.
mike_c: $380b at a fking 30 p/e
mike_c: pop quiz (no cheating). name a company with mkt cap > $200b and p/e > 20.
jurov: numismatist’s answer to diamond, for such a coin might last nearly forever.”
assbot: A Penetration Artist - Deep Shit (infinitebutthole) - KAFKA Franz - Works [Archive of Our Own]
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: a very special find: http://archiveofourown.org/works/1664801?view_adult=true
los_pantalones: take a discripined decision
asciilifeform: anyone who buys a berth on mp's 'we piss on patents' atomic battleship should give 'cyranose' a thought.
BingoBoingo: Even then, I'd expect it to report a lot of cornstarch, stearate and lipid esters
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: That's diginork's link. If such a kickstarter succeeded I wouldn't trust it to identify interesting things...
assbot: SCiO: Your Sixth Sense. A Pocket Molecular Sensor For All ! by Consumer Physics, Inc. — Kickstarter
dignork: asciilifeform: for the pills - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/903107259/scio-your-sixth-sense-a-pocket-molecular-sensor-fo
mike_c: hashfast ceo one month ago: "I joined this company a month ago because the team is amazing and we are not scammers"
asciilifeform: just squeeze it into a size/depth gauge and determine 'pull'
asciilifeform: testable as genuine with a dollar's worth of gear.
asciilifeform: a NdFeB or SmCo magnet would likewise make a very 'solid' coin, from that perspective
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Of course, in that way it is like silver, but with a more predictable extraction rate.
BingoBoingo: It might take what, 1, 2 kilograms to fill a small fountain? The gallium might need changed out every couple seasons due to impurities?
BingoBoingo: Yeah, and so many aesthetic uses, Like a liquid metal fountain out in the garden.
asciilifeform: it'd be a shame, though, GaAs is costly enough as it is.
mircea_popescu: from the life of a cryptolord :
punkman: i guess now that their vc money came in they can splurge a bit
punkman: they even have a conference http://www.dockercon.com/ derp
thestringpuller: or on a toaster
benkay: can be run inside a vps as well
FabianB: no, many run it inside a vps
FabianB: it's a tool to manage lxc containers for you, so kinda like a chroot with cgroups and snapshottable
benkay: i use it to nail down environments for a single process
benkay: a vps you rent from a virtualization provider, docker you install on some server you own to do your own virtualization?
Mats_cd03: and how is that different from a vps
mircea_popescu: it's actually a jool of functional functionality, kakobrekla just made it like this and it has needed very little fixing
fluffypony: mike_c: that's a good point
gribble: Error: "bc,diff" is not a valid command.
mircea_popescu: U.S. Magistrate Judge Dwane Tinsley set the arraignment for August 21, 2013 and released Thornsbury on a $10,000 unsecured bond.
mircea_popescu: "[Judge Thornsbury] engaged in criminal conspiracies to violate the constitutional rights of victim R.W. . .Judge Thornsbury conspired to plant illegal drugs on R.W.'s pickup truck; to have R.W. arrested for thefts he did not commit; to commandeer a state grand jury and use it to oppress R.W. and his family; and, after an incident in which R.W. was the victim of an assault, to arrange for R.W., rather than the perpetra
mircea_popescu: re bio challenge : no. but this wasn't a magistrate was he