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mircea_popescu: i was nonplussed that i can't make blocksized txn in 2012, i still am nonplussed.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes and also, on my personal wishlist : could block generation finally be fucking fixed ?
mircea_popescu: ascii_field i was talking more in terms of how it's supposed to go. i'm aware the current pos is a pos.
mircea_popescu waits patiently for the vc funded, world changing "start-up" predicated on having read the above lines in the log.
mircea_popescu: problem solves itself. whether they duplicate or not is a byproduct : competition, economical.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes the only reasonable way to go about it is, pretend the other nodes are your employees. measure the txn bytes/minute you receive from them, give points.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field and the "introduce scoring for peers, shitlist least performing for x interval" idea from earlier, same thread.
mircea_popescu: " So let's take a closer look at the program - it's a .NET 2.0 executable and can be completely decompiled with dotPeek into a set of Visual Studio solutions."
mircea_popescu: While investigating this rather innocuous looking program I discovered that it accepts commands by listening for HTTP requests on localhost:8884 and that the security restrictions Dell put in place are easily bypassed, meaning an attacker could trigger the program to download and install any arbitrary executable from a remote location with no user interaction at all.
mircea_popescu: she's gonna grow up to believe socialism is best because artists.
mircea_popescu: louis c k is givving the snotty brat way too much control over her environment.
mircea_popescu: that also. but i just mean know, not necessarily act, to give them a chance.
mircea_popescu: at any rate, i think by now we know more about scams than ny's da office, collectively.
mircea_popescu: and if neobee/primeasic/whatever is bitcoin news, so is the exactly identially executed, designed and manned "mars project"
mircea_popescu: in the words of the great jukov, "the fact that the americans won that battle by sheer accident doesn't mean we shouldn't win the same way deliberately"
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo yeah, well... that's a good point. in honesty so is gawker, but anyway. the distinction between one model and the other blurs.
mircea_popescu: check it out, trinquette kicked undata out, now he's a bum
mircea_popescu: the only thing missing'd have been, kid frowning and in very bussins voice
mircea_popescu: she knows, for instance, that one of the first things kids babblingly ask is why is the sky blue ?
mircea_popescu: speaking of which, funny story. friend with small baby, intelligent woman, actual engineer, the works.
mircea_popescu: so basically we could say "another copacetic union ruined by trilema" ?
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i know that part, i'm not arguing roundly for its merits.
mircea_popescu: this was the soviet argument in the 20s. their "artistry" fizzled, and really, 10 years out of 70 ?
mircea_popescu: trinque btw, the "artists of socialism" nonsense is just so much bunk, and thorouighly debunked.
mircea_popescu: but, the fact that chick can get him that worked up over nothing bodes well for teh twu wuv factor involved :D
mircea_popescu: mats : "Comment by Massimiliano Torromeo (mtorromeo) - Friday, 05 April 2013, 12:07 GMT This package is not a dependency of any other package. It also needs to be explicitly installed AND started/enabled so after installation the system is not any less secure."
mircea_popescu: And as far as the delays are concerned, he says, “is it really a failure if we land our first crew two, four, six, or even eight years late?”
mircea_popescu: the projects will multiply, as time goes by, for the obvious economic reasons. the lulz will increase. lulz must be mined!
mircea_popescu: cazalla just for the record, on my wishlist-of-things-way-far-out-of-reach, stuff which like hooft says, i'll be happy to get in a 100 years : i'd totally love it if qntra did what medium does, and is correct in doing : chase these social justice idiocies, get insiders to spill the beans.
mircea_popescu: dude wtf... srsly, 6bn ? like, three derps got together and went, "hey, this IDEA is totally worth one hundred thousand new cars" ?
mircea_popescu: There are other bad signs for Mars One. The organization’s contract with production company Endemol is no longer in place; Mars One was hoping to generate $6 billion from a reality show.
mircea_popescu: when you're a scammer you gotta be very careful with your time. keeping above water quite the challenge.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field in those venues where idiots congregate, this is heard, because it actually is +ev.
mircea_popescu: ) to how leading contenders earned their spot (he says they paid for it).
mircea_popescu: After filling out an application (mostly out of curiosity), former NASA researcher Joseph Roche, now of Trinity College, became one of 100 finalists to live in permanent settlement on Mars. In his interview with Elmo Keep for Medium, Roche expressed many concerns, ranging from inaccurate media coverage (there were only 2,761 applicants, not 200,000) to Mars One’s psychological or psychometric testing (or lack thereof
mircea_popescu: ascii_field yeah, world's been revolutionized a coupla times and changed who even knows how often since those days.
mircea_popescu: think about that for a moment, solid coin hadn't been even invented yet.
mircea_popescu: "17 yo entrepreneur" of yesterday was bragging about "trading altcoins for four years".
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla you think ? the things i've seen people brag about since then...
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla i just realised, talking to punkman yest, that we've actually been here for well over three years.
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mircea_popescu: anyway, the wp stuff is more of what i thought we had discussed many times.
mircea_popescu: "Do have any PGP key? Try our online PGP key generator"
mircea_popescu: on that note, you can't say enigmail without nig mail.
mircea_popescu: punkman theoretically. i just had nfi anyone had actually done it.
mircea_popescu: still, more pgp flowing through the tubes is a net gain
mircea_popescu: punkman probably cheapest approach to diddle the js to encrypt to two keys. transparent enough to do, and then get somewhere else the msg.
mircea_popescu: technically, it's js, so they're not trusting the site.
mircea_popescu: i suppose the communication starts with "gtfo off windoze"
mircea_popescu: as in, random derp w/o gpg installed wants to send mp stuff encrypted to mp's key, there's page on mp's site with javascript
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell brendafdez it should redirect you properly now