asciilifeform: well normally the 'problems' generator is used very sparingly, because most folks lack $maxint
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: one can theoretically try this in usa, but it will cost $maxint. and at the end of the day can end up 'having problems.'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: these are SOP today, for things as mundane as telephone service.
asciilifeform: bounce: feel free to try this. the flunkie will show you the door.
asciilifeform: 'arbitration' in usa is a term where the folks who fuck you over with the contract specify that you agreed to use tame judges, of their choosing (who are not in fact judges of the crown) in any dispute.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: according to the box contract in all extant u.s. banks, they can simply 'lose' the contents, and max liability is a joke number
asciilifeform: the weakest link in the system is the automatically the value of x in 'x access-controlled.'
asciilifeform: nubbins`: that's called - vault with rectothermal (or, hammer drill...) access control.
asciilifeform: and time/pressure dispensers drool (literally.) and suckback hose does not help - if set to a backpressure that actually has any effect, the contents of the syringe end up slowly sliding up, and eventually into the vacuum pump. schlurp.
asciilifeform: decimation: my apparatus is only manual in the sense that i lack the time/equipment to produce autofeeders, so the lifter must be guided over pre-popped tape manually.
asciilifeform: decimation: manual pick&place << not the least bit like what i'm doing. that's just a frame where you move the carriage with hands. can't move to coordinates of known points.
asciilifeform: (i've misplaced the 3 of clubs in a moving crate somewhere, i think)
asciilifeform: though for certain arbitrary legal criteria (barrel too long, too short, too thick, something or other, IANAL) you have to fill out a form of some sort
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: where i live there are gigantic markets where such hardware is bought and sold with cash
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: nothing about btc on vendor's site... ?
asciilifeform: that is, if you process the output of noise apparatus as prescribed, you get the expected result; if you forget to, and call 'return(3)' as in the comic - not.
asciilifeform: that'd be 'it works better if you plug it in.'
asciilifeform: ('inferior' is perhaps poor choice of word here. for cryptographic purposes. for, say, homework, where the run must be replicable - one must use prng.)
asciilifeform: not hardware driven << a schoolboy can write his own 'mersenne twister', get the same inferior result, for no effort really.
asciilifeform: PinkPosixPXE: in the sense of 'it works better if you plug it in' ?
asciilifeform: PinkPosixPXE: this tool does precisely nothing without a hardware rng.
asciilifeform: PinkPosixPXE: tools that help increase entropy << what've we come to. as if the heat death of universe weren't arriving quickly enough...
asciilifeform: bounce: we'd be talking seven figures in tax and enviro-bureaucracy fees alone.
asciilifeform: jurov: recall my gravity well analogy. one gram of rocket fuel gets you nowhere nearer to escaping, e.g., earth or moon. a hundred tonnes - does. the gram brings you nearer to blowing out from the well only in the sense that it's one gram less that you must collect.
asciilifeform: jurov: great question. if critical mass of btc, i can escape to a friendly country and build small plant using modern tech.
asciilifeform: jurov: no paypal. no fiat sales. btc only.