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asciilifeform: much like a high vacuum system, familiar to physics students, tends to start with a mechanical pump, then turns on ion-diffusion or other high vacuum source.
asciilifeform: taking pre-orders for improbably nice electronics is a good preliminary filter for a chumpatron.
asciilifeform: lol
asciilifeform: ''Let's see, I'm wealthy and respected. What's missing? 'I know!' he shouts, slapping his forehead so hard he loses consciousness, 'I'll launch A Ponzi scheme. That way every day will tingle with the excitement of wondering whether my world will collapse in ruins and I'll be dragged off to prison while simultaneously being reviled by the whole world.''
asciilifeform: (from the infamous prof. dutch)
asciilifeform: https://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/PSEUDOSC/Ponzi.HTM
asciilifeform: obligatory:
asciilifeform: then sold foreign stocks, then moved into ponzimatics.
asciilifeform: it started as an importer of electronics, if i recall
asciilifeform: (phunphact. first tv ad i ever saw was for the mmm parent company)
asciilifeform: mmm!
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: americans tend to have 'sore spot' about languages.
asciilifeform: did the crapartist have no awareness of what serious 0days typically go for?
asciilifeform: 20 btc. cost of a well-worn toyota.
asciilifeform: anyone who is concerned about a hypothetical openssh apocalypse should consider 'port knocking.'
asciilifeform: ^ similar crap-artistry
asciilifeform: http://pastebin.com/qPxR9BRv
asciilifeform: http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q2/247
asciilifeform: it is quite impossible to sell a vuln this way. other than to suckers, of course.
asciilifeform: you can't test-drive an exploit, without possessing it.
asciilifeform: let's imagine it were worded differently. the fundamental problem of proof still applies.
asciilifeform: notice that the advertisement does not label the product as '0day'
asciilifeform: correct.
asciilifeform: no team needed, just 1 fellow with free time.
asciilifeform: this part is not outlandish. it is indeed possible to capture exploits this way.
asciilifeform: vulns are generally sold via trusted brokers, in ceremonies that put japanese tea ritual to shame.
asciilifeform: there is no way for a buyer to determine that product is genuine prior to payment
asciilifeform: because of 'lemon problem' (perhaps not the right term of art, but i can't think of the right one)
asciilifeform: re: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=gjkivAf3 - if this were genuine, author would never offer it for public sale.
asciilifeform: 'based on DumbCards'
asciilifeform: 'for smartPnohes!'
asciilifeform: re: 'prismicide' - mega-lol
asciilifeform: lol!
asciilifeform: 'you may not be interested in war, but war is certainly interested in you.'
asciilifeform: 'divide & conquer' etc. no news here.
asciilifeform: 'let's you and him fight.'
asciilifeform: see usa re: libya, syria, etc.
asciilifeform: what we're actually seeing is brzezinski's 'controlled chaos' algorithm.
asciilifeform: the popular notion that usa has the objective of re-establishing the old ua gov. is, imho, mistaken
asciilifeform: that at least some of the corpses belonged to folks who were machine-gunned or beaten to death outside, then dragged in for the burning
asciilifeform: yeah that's the russian version
asciilifeform: the only thing there seems to be a kind of general agreement about is that the folks inside were fleeing from raging mob, and barricaded themselves in
asciilifeform: davout: circled is bullet holes
asciilifeform: ^ 'funfest' in odessa.
asciilifeform: http://vvv-ig.livejournal.com/690116.html
asciilifeform: their idea, not mine.
asciilifeform: lol
asciilifeform: 'three stakes, well sharpened on one side, have been prepared at...'
asciilifeform: tldr - ua gov. prepares to impale 'insurgents'.
asciilifeform: http://nizhyn.pik.cn.ua/785/v-nizhini-separatistiv-saditimut-na-kol
asciilifeform: from the loltron:
asciilifeform: http://techcrunch.com/2024/05/05/dont-eat-shit-it-isnt-delicious/
asciilifeform: , and could not fathom how to modify its tools without making a whole new language.'
asciilifeform: 'A "new" language that differs from the rest of the crop by one or a couple features is proof positive that both what it came from and what it has become are mutations about to die. There are tens if not hundreds of thousands of such "languages" that people have invented over the yeare, for all sorts of weird purposes where they just could not use whatever language they were already using, could not extend it
asciilifeform: re: cmake: obligatory, http://www.xach.com/naggum/articles/3206985430398054@naggum.net.html
asciilifeform: lol!
asciilifeform: Apocalyptic: aside from the obvious fact that 99+% of the material found there is junk - no idea.
asciilifeform: jurov: this topic isn't particularly mysterious - beaten to death in open literature.
asciilifeform: http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2014/05/statecraft-or-witchcraft.html
asciilifeform: in other news:
asciilifeform: small summary: http://cryptome.org/nsa-tempest.htm
asciilifeform: heavily censored, naturally.
asciilifeform: http://cryptome.org/2014/05/nsa-tempest-01-02-oct-02.pdf
asciilifeform: (any u. eco fans here?)
asciilifeform: sure he was french and not herr eco?
asciilifeform: lol!
asciilifeform: to me 'white' still evokes 'white' vs 'red'
asciilifeform: aha mr mold's word.
asciilifeform: w'ts that
asciilifeform: popular name for the folks who go full throttle with ms rand
asciilifeform: aye
asciilifeform: punishment for poor people << aye! drive on 'beltway', watch the prison wagens (colourful logo) and their crews, picking up rubbish.
asciilifeform: (they had a special arrangement, where you'd get a 'prize' later.)
asciilifeform: (what did i do? well, i worked summers in a bio lab. technically unpaid. so, i was golden.)
asciilifeform: it counted!
asciilifeform: one option, riotously funny, was advertised on library wall. 'society against involuntary servitude' (an org run by 'randroids') that... campaigned against community serv. requirements.
asciilifeform: 'superservitude' evokes a story. over here in usa, schoolchildren (in many states, mine included) were required to do x hours of 'community service' to graduate
asciilifeform: !? lol
asciilifeform: re: fusion: Farnsworth's device.
asciilifeform: intended for voice telephony
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what was the gpg competitor nsa was pushing << it was clipper. not strictly speaking a pgp competitor
asciilifeform: china/crimea: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=04-03-2014&bots=true#544315
asciilifeform: osmium level.
asciilifeform: anyone who gives a damn can dig it up.
asciilifeform: there was a paper ages ago, on device fingerprinting through acoustic artifacts (buzz speaker, see what microphone picks up)
asciilifeform: kgb typewriter fingerprints, the famous yellow dots in colour laser printer, this crap - 'history does not repeat, but it rhymes.' ☟︎
asciilifeform: find characteristic biases
asciilifeform: re: solid state gyro fingerprinting - betcha this also works with satanic rngs.
asciilifeform: why there needs to be a 'kickstarter' for a flashlight, i cannot answer. ask the gods.
asciilifeform: (as you could in a classical, incandescent flashlight)
asciilifeform: it does, however, allow you to drain them completely
asciilifeform: this is necessarily a poorer use of the batteries than the traditional version of several 1.5v cells in series.
asciilifeform: likewise, since a switched voltage regulator ('boost reg' for hardware people) is not 100% efficient,
asciilifeform: for some reason i thought this was standard on led flashlights, but possibly the chinese omit it.
asciilifeform: so long as you can keep the output voltage above the junction minimum of the leds, you have some light
asciilifeform: ThickAsThieves: the 'battery assist' circuit is an ordinary voltage multiplier.
asciilifeform: 'how many serious pianists left'
asciilifeform: herr orlov had a piece, where he 'what if concert pianos sometimes exploded'
asciilifeform: i bet they've got one in norilsk as we speak.
asciilifeform: let them confiscate hot reactor.