asciilifeform: 'can you play the cello?' 'don't know, never tried'
asciilifeform: 'we've a bunch of hooligans here. let's develop access agent.' 'what theme hooligans?' 'business theme.' 'is pg around? get him on the line'
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: on the train home, i mentally sketched what the committee deliberations must have looked like.
asciilifeform: déclassé - or, to a russian, западло.
asciilifeform: can't use pgp and 'stand under the flag' pg stands under.
asciilifeform: spent his entire life trying to convince anyone who would listen that he is a great inventor
asciilifeform: teller is a pathetic figure (in the original sense of the word)
asciilifeform: lesson appears to be, nuttery does not entail originality.
asciilifeform: 'Whom shall I trust / My own hormones and lust / or my rage and my hate / that await at Hell’s gate.'
asciilifeform: inevitable observation / puzzle: why are all of the public nuts so tediously predictable.
asciilifeform: olice dragged me to a psych clinic, where they strangled me, [ten minutes of unintelligible crud]' police: turned her loose, drove away
asciilifeform: much more interesting woman: walked into coffee shop, proclaims at the top of her lungs: 'i've been standing in front of this place all day, and you won't give me a free drink!' clerk: '...' woman: 'know what? i own this place! you're all fired!' clerk: [unintelligible] woman: 'sure, i'll wait for the police. [pulls out phone, films]' police come. woman led outside, 'i will have the lot of you fired! last time p
asciilifeform: but if you want something public (open to new participants without elaborate gymnastics) - rather different problem.
asciilifeform: if you want a 'closed' channel, then we can do that right now - gpg mailing list.
asciilifeform: unless by 'encrypted' you also mean link saturation and some variant of 'onion route' (a la the claimed mechanics of tor) - same problem.
asciilifeform: channel still lives on a distinct physical box that belongs to someone
asciilifeform: 'rewrite the tcp/ip stack so that all traffic is encrypted' << doesn't solve the problem described in the 'enforcement' article.
asciilifeform: 'if you see a man drowning, and you can either photograph or save him - what shutter and aperture settings would you use?'
asciilifeform: idiot anglo empire wants to shoot itself in the head? sure, why not.
asciilifeform: you can get virtually any book ever published - for free, searchable, in any format you like - on the net. in five seconds.... if you speak russian or chinese.
asciilifeform: '"We asked could we at least talk about when something could become available as a used book? Could we maybe wait three months after the book was published?" said Patricia Schroeder, president of the Association of American Publishers. "The biggest problem is that it is legal, I think. I wring my hands, pound my desk and say, `Aargh.' "'
asciilifeform: '“They don’t have the right to read a book out loud,” said Paul Aiken, executive director of the Authors Guild. “That’s an audio right, which is derivative under copyright law.”' << these folks have crossed 'parody horizon' long ago,.
