asciilifeform: incidentally, for a few years now one can buy similar apparatus for triangulating small arms fire. you can actually see these permanently installed in certain u.s. cities.
asciilifeform: (dr. evil plants mine on street xxx, you left xxx ahead of schedule, mine blows. locals admit nothing, say 'gas leak.' wave velocity sensor on your desk tells truth.)
asciilifeform: because, if i recall, 'ultralights' (IANAL - but if i recall, defined as ~100kg and below) are actually unregulated, and can be flown anywhere in usa, by anyone
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: you mean small airplanes in general? or specifically 'ultralights' ?
asciilifeform not exactly a pith-helmeted hero of world travel; went to an airport for the first time in ~22 yrs. to visit mircea_popescu and other phriends back in april.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo and other us-ians probably know that one shouldn't take an old set of shooting earmuffs to the airport, and why...
asciilifeform is actually quite familiar with the construction of such alarms, and their shortcomings.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: conventional munitions alarm << you mean, ears ringing? or smelled the unmistakeable smell of trotyl? or actual electric alarm?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu, bitcoinpete: just an old idea. as in, hardware you can actually buy.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: chaining methodology << sure. and ten other things.
asciilifeform: they taste great together. like der fuhrer's walther and cyanide capsule.
asciilifeform: benkay: sham-wots are as inevitable as shamchains.
asciilifeform: self-service gasenwagen. wave of the future. amazing! technology.
asciilifeform: whether he stayed awake in school math and had the sense to look at the actual waveform (perhaps wife was fond of jumping on the bed?) before divorcing, i do not know.
asciilifeform: one day he went on a long journey, and when came back, discovered that max(weight) > him + wife.
asciilifeform: one fellow, (said to have lived in romania) built piezos into his bed legs
asciilifeform: reminds me of a legend (forgot where i heard it, perhaps even here.)
asciilifeform: the funny part is that wearing the electrodes utterly destroyed my sleep quality. and, on the other hand, the variants without electrodes ('actigraph' gadgets) are junk - they can only distinguish 'REM' from other phases of sleep, but nothing more.
asciilifeform: bitcoinpete: already done, ages ago, by various vendors ('zeo' - now defunct - had a fairly good machine.)
asciilifeform: but no. somehow altchain folks can only think of duplicating spam stock business model.
asciilifeform: no shortage of possible experiments to choose from (e.g. Lamportian 67% theoretical maximum threshold (see 'byzantine generals') instead of 51; programmable work functions; a hundred other things)
asciilifeform: benkay: point is not that a hypothetical altchain created by thinking people would displace traditional btc, but that it is theoretically possible to build something that's at least worth thinking about.
asciilifeform: if any of them took the trouble to write something interesting (e.g. system analogous to the original btc but of proper, rather than 'power ranger' quality) and resisted the temptation of premine shenanigans, etc. - but no.☟︎
asciilifeform: this is quite analogous to the altchain folks
asciilifeform: monkey reaches in, grasps banana, refuses to let go, sits there. until hunter shows up.
asciilifeform: container with, say, banana, and a hole big enough for the beast's hand, but not if it holds the bait
asciilifeform: is everyone familiar with the proverbial 'money trap' ?☟︎
asciilifeform: ;;later tell moiety a true maestro will play, say, j.s. bach, correctly! that is, gigantic lift motors for the low octaves, little floppy drive head drivers for the highest.
asciilifeform: ;;later tell moiety shame that modern pc includes no addressable stepper motor. but if you own, e.g. a scanner, you can still play this beautiful music...
asciilifeform: dub: is this a formal arrangement, or a fortuitous accident? (e.g. 'comcast' once gave me ~2 years of service gratis. by virtue of sheer ineptness.)
asciilifeform: dub: every carrier i know of save the ones described above deduct $positive_integer per $time_period
