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mircea_popescu: they're predicated on the theory that ustardian faggots really enjoy the feeling of a stretched rectum, and politicians are essentially whores : in the business of pleasing the customer with the least possible effort.
mircea_popescu: undata: because terrorists can't find an old copy of gpg? << gun laws aren't predicated on the theory that criminals can't find a gun.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: original pgp was not an apparatus for one-off deals with strangers, but something to use between friends, as i understand. << what you say is accurate, but doesn't excuse. suppose i knock up a girl, and the blastule in her folds goes "hey, daddy's cock was crooked, so let's make the baby's cunt crooked too. nothing like baking in random assumptionbs for no good reason!"
mircea_popescu: davout: "Implementations SHOULD NOT assume that Key IDs are unique", so let's just include that in the signature packet. derp << no, seriously.
mircea_popescu: Adlai the worse part being that they're innocent enough to not know that's a dumb business model.
mircea_popescu: a) ibm is a real estate agency ; b) proof of concept = vaporware ; c) buzzword-buzzword-something-buzzword.
mircea_popescu: today we learn hermeline is actually stoats in english.
mircea_popescu: expensive fur is expensive for very good reasons that can't really be grasped fully untill you rub your cock on it.
mircea_popescu: anyway, this is to be tried. deck the nude chicks in fox, sable, hermeline, etc. wear blindfold. have fun.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform a proper russian hat is about there also. sable or w/e.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform iirc my history, the thing was actually invented by volga tatars
mircea_popescu: you know the ones where wearer looks like he's put a cake on his head ?
mircea_popescu: Adlai btw saw a sight today in ba jewish quarter. guy with proper astrakhan hat, plus two kids in full costume.
mircea_popescu: whole country is essentially a "we were too cheap to actulaly build the disneyland but we're selling tickets to it anyway"
mircea_popescu: coming from someone who lives in israel... that's pretty damning.
mircea_popescu: what's gavin dressed up as this time ? perianne boring ?
mircea_popescu: well, once completed gossipd actually is a fully decentralized wot keeper, sure.
mircea_popescu: my idea was to simply network a bunch of centralised gribbles.
mircea_popescu: nanotube's idea was to re-create the wot as a p2p thing of sorts, and he's been working at it for a while, but hey. it's hard.
mircea_popescu: then bitcoin became more valuable than all of san francisco combined
mircea_popescu: Adlai that's the idea. looky here : gribble/wot was created a few years ago,. when btc was worth nothing and nobody bothered distinguishing between taaki and gavin.
mircea_popescu: and they are teh premier unemployable math grad student cemetery.
mircea_popescu: dude, they're selling themselves as something more than "zack & miri make an agency"
mircea_popescu: i guess most initial combos have about 10ish mn possible representatives.
mircea_popescu: decimation yes but a single watsapp "could buy all of russia".
mircea_popescu: davout: Apocalyptic: RFC 5.2.2 sez a signature packet contains "Eight-octet Key ID of signer" << seriously in shock/denial about this.
mircea_popescu: that's basically the long and the short of it. nsa = national scriptkiddie association. a glorified derp club.
mircea_popescu: that's actually the difference between artist and script kiddie.
mircea_popescu: who the fuck woud be stupid enough to use a protocol for this job ?!
mircea_popescu: "famine is a disaster that opens the door to opportunity : you can swallow knots!"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform iirc it's one of those where existence is mandatory but no-one's responsibility. so...
mircea_popescu: decimation i doubt they would meet my definition. things like "every boy under 16 must have 4 acres of forested hillside and a dog"