asciilifeform: jurov: first, multiply, e.g, 5 x 7 with 'wetware' and get a reliable answer.
asciilifeform: eh, tech was actually happening then.
asciilifeform: '...a secret goal of the Rockefeller family, one of the chief financiers of the plan, to own an apartment overlooking the Kremlin and Red Square...'
asciilifeform knows more than he wants about the u.s. patent office
asciilifeform: likewise, a junior (less than x years, forget what x) official cannot pronounce judgement, he only forwards a recommendation 'approve/deny' to senior gruppenfuhrer.
asciilifeform: could, yes. and then overruled on appeal. (very embarrassing, if not career-ending event, for patent judge)
asciilifeform: patent office specifically proclaims that employees are retained & promoted based on piecework (their term, 'production')
asciilifeform: let's assume that each and every allegation in the piece - is true.
asciilifeform: implies (apologies to orwell) some actual relationship (if inverted) with fact.
asciilifeform: ;;later tell ben_vulpes your blog has been pwned? turned to spam for 'feedyes.com'.
asciilifeform: paranoids to accidents << not actually immune. just die happy.
asciilifeform: 'The examiner alerted a supervisor about the fraud, but “he says he cannot do anything as long as she meets her production,” the whistleblower wrote.' << how this is a problem ?
asciilifeform: (rather harsh ones, which is one reason for the famously poor quality of the judgements)
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i bet the fellow who ended up in the famous bathtub duffel bag - had 17 systems, of which 15 failed. the remaining two, say? one at the bottom of the Thames, perhaps. one was built into his towel hanger and thrown out by landlord - blood wouldn't come off. (imagine.)
asciilifeform: 'found in toilet and in defendant's shoes'
asciilifeform: instead of camera, 10kg of cocaine are brought.
asciilifeform: 'your Honour, i've a hidden camera in my toilet tank, it filmed the hextuple-orifice motorized police rape of my person.' judge: 'court orders that Sgt. Coquthrobb retrieve evidence...'
asciilifeform: who will be permitted near it, without minders.
asciilifeform: but any kind of uplink a 'plebe' can get hold of at reasonable expense - yes, jammed.
asciilifeform: afaik, they don't run a gigantic spark gap jammer during a bust - yet.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: first thing they do is destroy all comms. this dates back to at least 'waco' incident.
asciilifeform: a 'classroom' example necessarily overdramatizes.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: no need. be shot instead, 'resisting arrest'
asciilifeform: usg will bust first, dekulakize second, and ask questions - third.
asciilifeform: (for an expensive but lively lesson in 'law' and law, purchase, e.g., a pill press.)
asciilifeform: as in, who gets the 3am broken door and barrel in his mouth, and who doesn't
asciilifeform: there's 'law' and there's law, the actual.
asciilifeform: owning a kugelrohr in present-day usa.
asciilifeform: graphical terminals for proles, while having an actual computer in your possession will be seen as rather like owning, e.g., a Kugelrohr.
asciilifeform expects that proles will eventually be issued with graphical terminals, just like everybody used to expect and then, for some reason, stopped
asciilifeform unhappily reminds mircea_popescu that small-scale Si foundry work makes U-235 look cheap.
asciilifeform: 'even entire free operating systems... ...existed around the turn of the century. But not only were they illegal, like debuggers—you could not install one if you had one, without knowing your computer's root password. And neither the FBI nor Microsoft Support would tell you that.'
asciilifeform: phun phact: infineon makes the 'fritz chip.'
asciilifeform: e.g., 'log all the palmprints' means -all-, not merely the ones which didn't come with benjamins. or, alternatively - means all but the district attorney's, when he buys his dope.
asciilifeform: usually end because stoolie in charge breaks the understanding.
asciilifeform: for purposes that are not hard to guess.
asciilifeform: spamcoins exist at the crown's pleasure.
