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asciilifeform: they would much like to magic away the past. year zero.
asciilifeform: the shitmongers are not interested in competing with their grandfathers.
asciilifeform: same reason hollywood famously let old movies rot in vaults
asciilifeform: incidentally, the apple emulator ban is an instance of a much larger and more interesting phenomenon.
asciilifeform: speaking of apple -- http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/10/09/apples_kills_super_mario_and_zelda_and_sonic_bastards
asciilifeform: somebody really doesn't like the schneier piece? or was it the crown jewels catalogue circa '03?
asciilifeform: in other news, 'cryptome' appears to be under heavy ddos.
asciilifeform: apple was kept alive to play 'good cop' to microshit in the '90s, yes.
asciilifeform: apple could not manufacture its current x86 product line without access to at least a good subset of intel's 'real dirt', no.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: amd hired away most of the original dec alpha team. but not all.
asciilifeform: how else.
asciilifeform: how did << in precisely this way, yes
asciilifeform: in which otherwise functional humans can end up seo experts, also.
asciilifeform: where we are now is just as easily explained by crowded world.
asciilifeform: (valid. but not necessary)
asciilifeform: actually, the dogfood mechanism being selective for born seo experts is not a necessary hypothesis
asciilifeform: and probably could not even imagine synthetic food, etc.
asciilifeform: in what company, think.
asciilifeform: not 'just as well.' immeasurably better
asciilifeform: jurov: nah, i think the y2k crap has all been snipped out by now
asciilifeform: this is why the machine guns will eventually be taken away from the monkeys.
asciilifeform: because, well, didn't.
asciilifeform: i'm not particularly interested in the chances of having died while 5
asciilifeform: in fact, life expectancy as scalar is retarded.
asciilifeform: if you never lived, you're not part of the equation.
asciilifeform: ussr did not calculate life expectancy using the retard formula
asciilifeform: one car wreck, disease, bad gamble of whatever kind, etc
asciilifeform: and the ones not underwater - are one wave away from being under
asciilifeform: majority, i think
asciilifeform: both, either.
asciilifeform: aye
asciilifeform: in fact, i know many folks with less than 9 bits of usd at any given moment.
asciilifeform: or even $65535.
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: definitely behind.
asciilifeform: from bank of mars, yes
asciilifeform: ;;google binding arbitration
asciilifeform: and these have held up in court, too
asciilifeform: the particular contract i saw specifically waived the right to sue anybody for anything.
asciilifeform: why would they need to 'lose' paperwork.
asciilifeform: so the paperwork will state, box sat in good order until such-a-date when god disintegrated it with death ray
asciilifeform: (5 figures)
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: it's a temple.
asciilifeform: the chumpers line up to get boxes, etc. not out of legally-enforceable promise of correct function, but - from faith.
asciilifeform: the fiat bank, as at this point even a child knows, is what we in usaschwitz call a 'faith-based institution'
asciilifeform: and further down, a few 100 lines.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=30-08-2014#816372 ☝︎
asciilifeform: nubbins`: read the treasure thread
asciilifeform: 'tenser, said the tensor, tenser, said the tensor. tension, apprehension, and dissension have begun.'
asciilifeform: Bruce Schneier Censored by Snowden Censors << wat. backwards headline. s is one of the central snowden censors, afaik.
asciilifeform to bed.
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: http://i.imgur.com/B9Wf0L2.jpg << mikroskope and lens both here at last. seen with common household objects for size reference.
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: lol pingback crud
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: why are you convinced that it was a 'wordpress'-based ddos ?
asciilifeform: what shall we teach next? arithmetic?
asciilifeform: http://xkcd.com/221
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: nothing new under the sky.
asciilifeform: !s sram rng
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: !s mycelium
asciilifeform: inferior to hardware
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 unable to parse this sentence
asciilifeform: pop it, and post photo if it's been so long that your nose will not lead you to the culprit.
asciilifeform: find which, replace.
asciilifeform: routine on vintage gear.
asciilifeform: if not sure from what, probably had electrolytic cap burst
asciilifeform: magic smoke out of what ?
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: that one: http://www.loper-os.org/vintage/parallelsid/parasid.html
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: incidentally, commodore-64 (and 128) had hardware noise. (in the 6581 sound chip.)
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: from whence did you imagine it would come?
asciilifeform: i think he's asking for hardware.
asciilifeform: !up PinkPosixPXE
asciilifeform: (re: ddos tale)
asciilifeform: down side - only eats usd, and doesn't give actual machine (not even vm.) so no persistent processes.
asciilifeform: interestingly, my favourite hosting co. is virtually ddos-proof and costs almost nothing.
asciilifeform: bounce: if not eight.
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.