asciilifeform: i've some essayturds buried somewhere, on the death of craftsman.
asciilifeform: engineer would NOT think there are more important things in life << or, alternatively, stand up and fight to the death for la serenissima.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: but there's certainly a kind of creature, that usa is famous for, that this piece is inescapably about. and the only common attribute of the group, to the unarmed eye, is 'poor.'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: Poor people are an animal species, not as useful as bovines... intimately connected to shit << tricky, this. penniless student, or engineer bled dry by usa housing, or any number of folks, aren't necessarily turdmeisters of the kind painted here
asciilifeform: like car pedals << one can buy pedals which emulate keystrokes. i've a set.
asciilifeform: 'the attack requires sophisticated tools to extract the encryption keys, making it practically impossible for most people.'
asciilifeform: bitcoinpete: not sure why they should talk to me. instead, they should talk to the poor schmucks who buy the closed turd. and apologize to them.
asciilifeform: (cookbook being entirely wrong term here - they studiously avoid teaching how to prepare anything useful in actuality)
asciilifeform: ends up being taught as a compendium of cookbook crap
asciilifeform: i highly recommend against (american) uni for undergrad ochem. there, it is used as a 'weedout' test for pre-med kids
asciilifeform: 'Two researchers had made a diode with a very thin, heavily doped n-layer. When the diode was reverse-biased to the point of avalanche breakdown, a small fraction of the avalache electrons actually shot through the n-region and into a vacuum. They made this the e-beam source in a CRT and it worked pretty well. I am surprised that it has not, to my knowledge, made it out of the laboratory.'
