asciilifeform: anyone who is bedevilled by the question of where amerikanische dept of vaterlandische seekoority is gonna get ten thousand 'terroristes' to hang - that's where.
asciilifeform: a 'gulch' or 'compound' or whateverthefuck the turdmeister of the day calls it - doubly so if pitched with fanfare to the drooling hordes - is an elementary honeypot, whether deliberately built as such or not.
asciilifeform: they use racks and racks of off-the-shelf golden toilet modules and kilometres of cabling
asciilifeform: if any of the humble labs i worked in / toured/ invaded are anything to go by - none of the postdocs design pcb - why??
asciilifeform: so hell knows what other gotchas are in the public turdball.
asciilifeform: and if anyone is using it for serious work, they are using a patched version and aren't sharing
asciilifeform: situations like this are more interesting than appear on surface - because they make it abundantly clear that no one really gives a flying fuck if the thing works or not
asciilifeform is quite uninterested in flying on chairs.
asciilifeform: they don't test linux ver. - is the only possible conclusion.
asciilifeform: the fucker doesn't even refresh the screen correctly under a perfectly ordinary linux/x11
asciilifeform: decimation: don't bother. it isn't just the autorouter.
asciilifeform: after several weeks of 'doctor it hurts when i do that / don't do that' i threw in the towel.
asciilifeform: but - still no dice. if you're even a little unlucky (like yours truly) and your geometry is just so - geda's polygonal fills fall apart.
asciilifeform: 'geda' is considerably closer to working.
asciilifeform: in the style of mircea_popescu's 'cryptogram' puzzlers:
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: prime soviet rib << the whole 'canary' thing is just the last remnants of 'rule of law' going down the drain, gurgling - like the fabled 'last shit made with home food' of a prisoner
asciilifeform: goes great with lawrence oates and his 'I am just going outside and may be some time.'
asciilifeform: so homo americanus answers, gotta have 11111enty different plugs, one for each bodily secretion, medical concoction, and direction of desired flow
asciilifeform: speaking of whizzdum - recently read about 'luer's connector' and discovered that some of today's medicine men are campaigning to have it abolished. because dumbshit orderlies can't be trusted not to plug an x hose into a y port (e.g., x == blood 'in' and y == piss 'out')
