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mircea_popescu: i dunno, iconducted a few
benkay: "What anointed property is bestowed upon “dollars” which, being absent from bitcoins, precludes their usefulness? If you would not even eat your supper without the government first giving you its blessing, then I feel sad for you, for you are truly under a dismal spell and, and suffer a strange kind of man-in-the-sky worship."
ozbot: Today I logged onto my computer and found none of my bitcoins were stolen. : Bitcoin
nubbins`: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1zm1v5/today_i_logged_onto_my_computer_and_found_none_of/
asciilifeform: see, people laugh, but i intend to make that universe happen.
asciilifeform: i even own a little book on SNOBOL. so clearly.
benkay: oh, i'm familiar.
jcpham: but i didn't bother going to the forum
mircea_popescu: i have no idea, but it sounds like some pirate investment banker.
BingoBoingo: Fuck, I run a billion dollar ATC hedge fund for a private client
nubbins`: BingoBoingo: unfortunately, i'm the only t-shirt provider in the wot
nubbins`: no reason why my credit card number can't be a "master key" and i just generate one-time-use cc numbers for purchases
asciilifeform: it isn't just the fact that money lenders like that, though i refuse to borrow a million, some other fellow can swipe my driver's license and do it for me
nubbins`: i'm giving them one more chance before i issue a chargeback
nubbins`: when i inquired about a partial refund, they offer me $20
nubbins`: lel, so we outsourced some printing to this company in california. 14% of the order is missing when it arrives -- no explanation, no "we'll get the rest sent out soon", just numbers changed with a pen on the packing slip. i emailed company, they say "oh sorry -- we'll get the rest to you by march 24"
ThickAsThieves: i could stand to lose a few
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves i hear this is how people end up with eating disorders
lalusch: i totally agree
ThickAsThieves: well look where i spend my time!
lalusch: i meant the fact that they dont announce the exact date for dividend payment
lalusch: deadweasel, must have gotten me wrong. I did not mean the bitcointalk thread
mike_c: guy i know who works in it security consulting says he is drowning in work b/c of target.
lalusch: get what i mean?
deadweasel: i can't see how, pls explain, lalusch.
lalusch: yes, thats what i'm feeling too
mircea_popescu: so i guess... don't deal with known scammers.
mircea_popescu: i suppose that's the future use of all the two bit scammers i nthe history of bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: I thought I was reading the script for a bad cop movie. Did the government use a plea agreement to force Charno to help the government capture drug reps that he had never even met?
mircea_popescu: The trick was, Dr. Charno was actually a government informant. That's odd. And I have never heard of a doctor who requested a promotional speech. He cold called a rep he had never met and asked to meet him to discuss a drug he had never prescribed?
mike_c: it's tough being judge & jury. not a job I envy.
ThickAsThieves: which is now telling me i need to update, after every update
ThickAsThieves: i'm having a Java install feedback loop :(
deadweasel: I endorse this, and I've already started development on Goxcoincoin, set to go live when Goxcoin is hacked into bankruptcy. Goxcoincoin will allow people to buy interests in Goxcoin assets.
asciilifeform: * there i was
asciilifeform: what have i done
Apocalyptic: altcoin is going to da moon too I heard
mircea_popescu: "These flaws were discovered passively using the information which was returned by the web server following a normal request. I have not exploited any of the holes found."
asciilifeform: i keep trying to wake people up to this fact
asciilifeform: i guess i'm just terrible at measuring which miscreants are dumb enough to be harmless
Apocalyptic: "<QuantumQrack> No, I'm saying the true leaders have massive power. But in a cryptocurrcency wold....the mass has the power."
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i read some old posts this morning. you are using 'crystal space' - written by the sadly famous taaki ? this does not bother you ?
mircea_popescu: also, i'm with Mats_cd03. asciilifeform's ideas are tailored for the 1%. nttawwt, but kind-of dangerous if you're not in.
deadweasel: then again, i'm not 'savvy'
deadweasel: i agree on all counts, but it's not to say you can't comb the logs for some direction.
Mats_cd03: i lurk there and i rarely see any good conversation
Mats_cd03: i advise building a serious knowledge base in one subset of sec before getting into anything else
Apocalyptic: I used to do a lot of crackmes back in the days
r3wt: i am taking myself out of the equation for good of the project
Mats_cd03: i wouldnt recommend that
nubbins`: lel i can hear pascale humming that jan terri song from downstairs
r3wt: i decided i'd just hire a professional and try to learn from whatever example he sets
Mats_cd03: r3wt, i would recommend reading several books about secure coding and learn how to use an auditing tool like burp
nubbins`: that's about what i had in mind
mircea_popescu: i mean this is total libertard school of denial. it just so happens that theft, drugs and techno-wizardry is the EXACT recipe of mainstream worship
mircea_popescu: "Partly this is because lawmakers and regulators, spooked by early hype and the Mt. Gox disaster, are never going to afford Bitcoin services the kind of autonomy they'd need in order to flourish. Partly it's because there are conceptual problems with the Bitcoin architecture itself. And partly it's because Bitcoin's anarchic roots are too fringe to draw in the masses. In the mind of the average American, the currency i
Apocalyptic: my derp counter has overflown with Hearn today, i'll pass
mircea_popescu: althcare?" Well, lieutenant, pronounced like I'm a British naval commander, if we had a system of healthcare in which doctors were paid the exact same regardless of diagnosis or severity, then there'd be little attention paid to "correct" diagnosis, all of our epidemiological data would be totally invalid, and the number one drug in America would be Xanax. "Wait, isn't that the situation now?" Huh, nailed it.
nubbins`: i was just sharing a cool song D:
jcpham: i had a suggestion for that topic
jcpham: i thought we were talking about the worst music videos ever
nubbins`: i was about halfway through my first viewing before i stopped laughing at the video and realized the song was awesome ;(
jcpham: because i saw the video
jcpham: without the video, if i only heard it I would think it sucked less than i now think
jcpham: sometimes i look at these trust graphs and ratings and i see emotion
ozbot: What can I do when getting "We are no longer accepting questions/answers from this account"? - Meta
artifexd: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/86997/what-can-i-do-when-getting-we-are-no-longer-accepting-questions-answers-from-th
r3wt: i'm not banned, just banned from askign questions. look at the first two questions i asked and it should be all you need to know
mircea_popescu: well i mean in principle, but gotta build up first.
r3wt: i think
r3wt: i'm banned from asking questions on stackoverflow
jcpham: normally i get paid to pick stuff apart
r3wt: i have one question. is mysqli safe enough or should i go for the pdo extension?
r3wt: fuck it, i guess like everything else in life i have to learn this on my own.
r3wt: but yeah, i can shut the exchange down at anytime
ThickAsThieves: <r3wt> its not great yet i know, but we are working hard everyday // who is "we"?
r3wt: i meant advice on how to make prepared statements, because i'm actually just a noob with a dream. no college education, just read a book about php
r3wt: its not great yet i know, but we are working hard everyday
r3wt: i don't want to go back to hanging chickens at tyson
r3wt: we have a few offers, none of them very good but i'm examining my options.
jcpham: i'm teasing but at least you got the reference
r3wt: Apocalyptic, i was talking about his securities exchange. i'm talking about the negative stigma associated with bitcoin ipo's
jcpham: if i send monies will you thern reinvest my monies in riskier ventures
r3wt: unfortunately yes. that's why i'm here. i know mircea_popescu probably knows how to teach me to do it the right way
r3wt: anyone wanna buy some fee shares? we're broke and need some more "development money". and by development money, i mean money to pay ourselves and buy more shit.
asciilifeform: i don't see a Hearn in that paper
Apocalyptic: <r3wt> i seek knowledge of prepared queries in php // what happened to the LUA version ?
r3wt: and so i fail
r3wt: because i am not worthy
r3wt: i seek knowledge of prepared queries in php
asciilifeform: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=GHXSmNEg
mircea_popescu: i write too much ;/
mircea_popescu: i totally forgot i wrote that article.
mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic i was shocked at the trilema link
mircea_popescu: wait i wrote that ?!
Apocalyptic: I see a powerfull parallel with http://trilema.com/2014/the-definitive-tract-on-sociopathy/ here
ThickAsThieves: "I asked my wife what she would trade for 5,000 Arscoins. Her answer: “A kiss?” Boom! A market had been created." lol
ThickAsThieves: i dont even know what a SSL really does, nor am I a programmer, but I have successfully purchased and installed one on a system I advised the client was not really secure
ThickAsThieves: i saw no other outcome
ThickAsThieves: i had bet yes on the areolacoin bet btw