asciilifeform: would never be able to stray more than fifty miles from a major water source
asciilifeform: accommodate huge water tanks holding whole lakefuls of water. Even so, it
asciilifeform: found the best to be ordinary water. The _Leviathan_ was now redesigned to
asciilifeform: before moving. After months of experimentation with expensive agents, they
asciilifeform: agent to hold the topsoil in place; _Leviathan_ would spray the stuff out
asciilifeform: solve the topsoil problem. A chemical firm then went to work on a binding
asciilifeform: expensive monitoring equipment to regulate each fan, but this never seemed to
asciilifeform: dust storms and buried small towns in soildrifts. A computer company suggested
asciilifeform: powerful that they blew away the topsoil for miles around the craft, created
asciilifeform: which were to lift the craft were at first too weak, then (redesigned) so
asciilifeform: From the start, there were problems called "teething troubles". The fans
asciilifeform: while the bill was railroaded through.
asciilifeform: who continued to oppose it was sent on a factfinding mission to Antarctica
asciilifeform: _Leviathan_ itself would crush down anything in its path. One junior Senator
asciilifeform: commercial arguments rolled the project over all opposition as one day
asciilifeform: millions of workers. The combined force of industrial, political, military and
asciilifeform: would devastate any land over which it happened to hover. But by now the Armywanted it as badly as any of the dozens of states, thousands of companies and
asciilifeform: were objections that _Leviathan_ would cost too much, would be a sitting duck,
asciilifeform: Both houses of Congress shoved through the necessary legislation. There
asciilifeform: 'i promise to ship a shitload of xxxx. send me xxxB.'
asciilifeform: ...and folks who don't even bother, and scamplan from beginning.
asciilifeform: benkay: software isn't hard. let's not go shopping.
asciilifeform: pankkake: seems like just more crap re: EC_DRBG
asciilifeform: dollars to doughbuts, sha will suffice.
asciilifeform: lolcats decide if your... throttle opens.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'For Science' (tm) post the sha of payload
asciilifeform: all one needs is to pwn one machine from which someone at least occasionally logs on to the box
asciilifeform: spam behaves just like other 'multilevel' crapola, in that the objective is typically... to find more places to send spam from.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'he either buys a beer for whatever famished kid working in whatever poor quality “website design shop” to obtain credentials, or perhaps just simply is the famished kid in question' << sadder than that. the creds typically come from an idiot inside a given shop who bit a trojan hook himself.
asciilifeform: to all spammers: the folks still using btc-related-whatevers on winblows are in dire need of your loving personal attention.
asciilifeform: 'why does physicist need a wife and a mistress? so that he can tell one that he is with the other, while he runs off to the lab to get some actual work in.'
asciilifeform: if this were so, it would've ended with vietnam.
asciilifeform: they might be a little wet. but i'd be surprised if he doesn't try everything potentially flammable to see what can be burned next.
asciilifeform: the arsonist who torched syria has a box full of matches left.
asciilifeform: it won't surprise me to see 'international komyoonity' airstrikes on uppity third-worlders who won't play ball and deindustrialize. 'punishment for pollution'.
asciilifeform: soviet tale - one drunken idiot tells another, 'i was at this party, and this guy must've been a serious contraband hero, he's loaded - i stumbled around, looking for the throne, and found a little bathroom with golden toilet!' - other: 'fucktard, so it was you who took a shit in the saxophone!'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ordinary 'heat pipe' works great, so long as you have a massive sink on the other side. heat pipe can be thought of as a refrigerator without a compressor.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: magneto-hydrodynamic coolant pump ? one sees them in patents often, but for some reason never in pc.
