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robwhiz22: mircea_popescu, do you have
a target date?
mircea_popescu: the worst
a slutty pharaoh can give you is
a little itchin'.
robwhiz22: By the way I did not realize that you were not shipping this item at all, since I ran across
a post that says it is shipping by xmas 2013, as well as I saw prototype that seemed nearly usable.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform would you like to buy my "how to get laid in egypt if you had
a time machine" guide ?
robwhiz22: mircea_popescu, if you like I can prepare the disclosure for public consumption. You can then release it. For obvious reasons of haste, I did not include
a highly polished and edited write-up with the preliminary email.
Shakespeare: so you think it has
a security flaw? then tell asciilifeform
daybyter: but take
a look at scheme. I prefer it over lisp now.
robwhiz22: I then stated: "As beautiful as the idea is, the Cardano in its present form is unfit for any purpose whatsoever, as I will prove shortly. If interested in my follow-up proposal, I can prepare
a more detailed overview detailing this conclusion. The main points are summarized below."
robwhiz22: This is how I started the email: "As described in your introduction to its specs, the Cardano it allows one point of certainty in an uncertain world . However insecure
a computer might be to which it is connected, so long as
a Cardano does not leave your possession, its private key can be relied on to work, and to be uncompromised, while it remains on the physical Cardano which does not export it under any circumstances. Moreover, yo
mircea_popescu: imh&uo, what's needed is
a way to convert exploratory code from c to lisp, and have all old shit in lisp
robwhiz22: All right. asciilifeform, in my critique I showed what you say makes you 'salivate' - obviously, without charge - as spec work.
A proper write-up is incldued for free with
a larger proposal.
mike_c: this is obviously
a weak attempt at extortion. rob, you have picked the wrong victims.
mircea_popescu: what am i,
a highschool teacher, send me crap in double spaced comic sans fiont ?
robwhiz22: mike_c - no not exactly. I've written most of the details in the first email, and am including
a proper well-edited write-up free of charge with the proposal.
mircea_popescu: robwhiz22 dude. i sent
a letter to the guy running cryptome. because i know he's qualified. he published it. i see no problem with this. i am more than willing to extend the welcoming of critique to his readership, because if he judged this is
a good idea i'm going on his hand.
bounce:
a letter in the mail/ in braille/ to johnny quest/
bounce: well
a big name german guy entirely hung up on language, can't remember his name. there's gotta be irony in there somewhere.
benkay: you thought 3 line method calls were
a thing?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it just denotes the general preocupation. doesn't have to be
a poem
mircea_popescu: it's
a love of the form of phrase, unrelated to meaning.
a fixation with getting aliterations and formal perfection.
mircea_popescu: benkay don't worry, the past two dozen lines were all
a setup for me to say "become benkay"
mircea_popescu: see if benkay sends me
a proposal ima prolly read it. but you're not benkay.
mircea_popescu: robwhiz22 i don't have it in mind, you have it in mind. whatever it is in your mind that makes you think i could conceivably give
a shit about your proposal.
mircea_popescu: robwhiz22 i didn't see it. i just have
a stock answer to all those that insist to aproach me personally as if we have some sort of
a relationship.
robwhiz22: asciilifeform, mircea_popescu has seen
a proposal I submitted to polymedia and responded that "The best approach would be to join #bitcoin-assets on Freenode" and sent me
a link ("
http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=bitcoin-assets if you don't have
a client handy") which is what I called an invitation.
mircea_popescu: therer you go asciilifeform. "is mp
a psychopath ?!?!?!" "definitely! he aims to destroy our shit!!1"
mircea_popescu: ce you have nothing to defend, your self-preservation instinct will not activate hitherto unused parts of your brain to come up with reasons and rationalizations for what you have done, you will not be aware that you have been taken for
a ride before it is over and you "lost".
mircea_popescu: and get through such experiences. Most people are not willing even to /listen/ to arguments or information that could threaten their comfortable view of their own existence, much less think about it, so when you cannot answer
a C programmer's "arguments" that his way of life is just great the way it is, it is
a pretty good sign that you let him set the agenda once he realized that his way of life was under threat. Sin
mircea_popescu: Getting C programmers to understand that they cause the computer to do less than minimum is intractable. They would not /use/ C if they understood this point, so if you actually cause them to understand it in the course of
a discussion, you will only make them miserable and hate their lives. People are pretty good at detecting that this is
a likely outcome of thinking, and it takes conscious effort to brace yourself
benkay: fluffypony: so if there's an idea that's worthless, and the execution is everything, if you've made strides on execution that is
a 'moat' in the parlance, ensaftifying your idea.
mircea_popescu: then, maybe, perhaps, possibly, you actually have
a name
mircea_popescu: fluffypony if you stick around here you'll see great ideas being given away for free multiple times
a week
fluffypony: I find this
a contentious issue...I agree that ideas are worthless, implementation is critical, but if implementation has already begun and the person seeks counsel/funding how much of that do they make public?
benkay:
a fork immediately after the confirmation, which resolved to
a branch in which the solo-conf transaction was not included?
robwhiz22: Mircea, I sent you
a proposal last week and you invited me in here for your answer.
benkay: so what situation would lead to someone who accepted
a funding action with btc after 1 block getting burned?
robwhiz22: mircea_popescu invited me in here. I came in on Sunday but you were going to
a Bat Mitzvah.
mircea_popescu: <mike_c> yes, it's not like france where they just take your whole paycheck and give you
a few dollars
a week for coffee and cigarettes. << zing lmao. what you say nao pankkake ? huh ? huh ?
mircea_popescu: <mike_c> visual inspection of code is
a crappy way to test anyway. << it's good for some things, bad for others, not really optional imo
benkay: you and i both know the only solution is keys on
a device you trust and bitcoin.
benkay: customer wants
a gun that fires backwards. i say "but it fires backwards!" they say "just build it."
ozbot: Baseband Hacking:
A New Frontier for Smartphone Break-ins – ReadWrite
Mats_cd03: give the nerds that need
a smartphone something with
a concrete expected support lifetime
Mats_cd03: i imagine mitigating mobile malware is largely
a policy issue
benkay: Mats_cd03: have you ever seen enterprise-sales grade material come out of
a starving artist?
Mats_cd03:
a clever founder would hire
a starving artist for 500usd
pLambert: bah, reading in
a line is hard.
mike_c: yes, it's not like france where they just take your whole paycheck and give you
a few dollars
a week for coffee and cigarettes.
pankkake: paying taxes, what
a strange idea
benkay: bounce: re "intuitive" computing: i build this shit all day and only occasionally hate my life. the only time it makes sense to me is when it's not so much
a bit of software (software nominally empowering humans to do things they could not before) but
a tool (in the sense of
a hammer, used to do
a specific thing).
mike_c: visual inspection of code is
a crappy way to test anyway.
benkay: mircea_popescu:BingoBoingo: So... what Open source alternatives are there to OpenSSL which aren't as much of
a bitch to read? << this is actually
a very large, and very open problem. <<
http://golang.org/pkg/crypto/tls/, seems to be about 8kloc
benkay: (f)Immediately upon publication of each Statement of Profit and Loss MPOE/MPEx will pay to shareholders as dividends
a fraction of no less than 100% (one hundred percent) of the Net Profits, if any.
benkay: (e)Mircea Popescu solemnly promises and warrants that complete and accurate Statements of Profit and Loss for each Reporting Month will be published by him no later than by the fifth day of the new month. Under exceptional circumstances and for good cause the publishing of the Statements of Profit and Loss can be deferred no more than once in
a calendar year so that the Statement of Profit and Loss of one month is published together
jurov: he every month either forgets or makes
a mistake
pLambert: just wondering, the report came out
a few days ago ...
assbot: Hell, ain't we about more fucked than
a whore at closin' time, huh?
mike_c: "Nowhere in the Bible does Jesus have
a sword fight."
MisterE: mircea_popescu: is that
a Romanian name?
mircea_popescu: here, i gave up trying to post the shit in irc, made
a blogpost instead.
mircea_popescu: actually, if anyone cares to explore this topic, i've wtf'd my foreign slaves with "filantropica",
a romanian movie of the 90s. pretty much
a slice of life, could as well be
a documentary.
fluffypony: like
a complete disregard for logic when it comes to "rape
a baby as
a cure for AIDs"
mircea_popescu: well "women" in the traditional sense hardly exist in the newer generation. it's pretty much
a genderless soup
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: both Afrikaaners (white) and native South Africans (black) have
a similar view of women
mircea_popescu: just
a huge workload for very little pay that prevents
a fork.
mircea_popescu: so not exactly
a race thing as much as
a gender thing ?
joecool: hmm, doesn't openssl also have weird licensing that would prevent
a fork?
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: yeah, you can't minimise it, but it's
a problem in the townships and villages and not so much in the suburbs
mircea_popescu: " IRC may not seem very asynchronous, but it is" << actually, it's ... multisyncronous. pretty much the only mental space that readily comprehends irc flow is the sort that spent
a lot of time doing debugger stepping.
mircea_popescu: they don't work, but unless we build
a huge broom somehow...
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo lol. i hope they make
a name for it and put it in wikipedia. something like
a DAB, or something.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Well, of course the possibility exists that the sun stops totally for
a measurable period of time, but...
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo funny factoid : the sun fusion is not unlike mining. it could in principle be the case
a finite interval goes without any emission.
BingoBoingo: How often does the sun just stop fusion for
a few minutes to catch
a breath
dexX7: how likely is it such
a flaw is implemented by accident?
mircea_popescu: anyway, if you're looking for more of
a perspective thing : this is without
a doubt the largest vulnerability ever reported in the history of vulnerabilities.
BingoBoingo: Or just running
a high traffic router and scooping up ciphertext
mircea_popescu: if you get the server's keys you can
a)impersonate the server and b) decrypt all its traffic, thaty you previously stored.