asciilifeform: yes, letting enemy run code on the box where you crypto is dumb. news at 11.

asciilifeform: 'old attack is old.'

asciilifeform: this almost calls for a memecat graphic or the like.

asciilifeform: *attack

asciilifeform: ThickAsThieves: isn't everyone tired of cache timing attach being 'reinvented' every month and pushed as a great discovery?

asciilifeform: and everybody pretends to like it.

asciilifeform: viewing Derp becomes a mark of a 'cultured' man

asciilifeform: and it becomes known as 'derivative porn' or 'Derp' for short.

asciilifeform: so the officially permitted porn consists of watching the censor's faces as they view the forbidden

asciilifeform: so most porn that anyone would be willing to see is classified as 'child' and forbidden

asciilifeform: feminists raised 'age of consent' to 46

asciilifeform: in russian sf writer viktor pelevin's epic 'SNUFF', the descendants of the americans (living in a mostly broken-down antigrav ship over what remains of russia) continue to decay,

asciilifeform: it had cultural impact though:

asciilifeform: old news

asciilifeform: haha

asciilifeform: ;;google kaishakunin

asciilifeform: what 'physicist' living today is fit even to be beheaded by noether.

asciilifeform: emmy noether was a titan. i suspect that we still haven't fully digested her output.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'six fucking months to break down the male blocks on killing, and even then it only works sorta 50-50' << i've yet to see this confirmed for homo sapiens vs. homo americanus circa 1940s

asciilifeform: note the role of the famous preet bharara - the roland freisler of our day.

asciilifeform: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/US-judge-dismisses-charges-in-Devyani-Khobragade-case/articleshow/31913140.cms

asciilifeform: i see nothing remarkable in this document.

asciilifeform: decimation: which one?

asciilifeform: likewise it is not unreasonable to expect players to purchase their own test coin.

asciilifeform: could offer prize specifically for reading the key without physically altering the coin.

asciilifeform: consider clay tablet.

asciilifeform: i have very little interest in the subject of casascius in particular, but in general i like the idea of 'blowing' systems that make false promises of security.

asciilifeform: not what i had in mind at all (if you want to know what, read the channel logs, no reason to repeat)

asciilifeform: if i recall, the current state-of-the-art involves a careful removal and replacement of the hologram

asciilifeform: ThickAsThieves: link?

asciilifeform: i'm reasonably certain that it is possible to do so, but have no wish to steal from anyone.

asciilifeform: has anyone offered a prize for snarfing the key from an intact coin?

asciilifeform: this was introduced in a hurry after '9/11' and vanished from the media as quickly as it appeared.

asciilifeform: benkay: the funniest bit is that there is a real-time sat link - including remote control.

asciilifeform: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-03-13/31-year-old-son-jon-corzine-reported-dead

asciilifeform: imagine if every media piece on, say, 400 horsepower mercedes benz, had to include a picture of... that many actual horses

asciilifeform: photos of casascius coins in unrelated context seems to be a good heuristic for scammitude.

asciilifeform: https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/replicant-developers-find-and-close-samsung-galaxy-backdoor

asciilifeform: no actual quanta harmed.

asciilifeform: name for a particular malware-production group at nsa

asciilifeform: laugh/cry

asciilifeform: usg steals a few irc botnets.

asciilifeform: http://imgur.com/2kg29Ts

asciilifeform: graduate of Spam U ?

asciilifeform: thestringpuller: what were they hired to do?

asciilifeform: http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/10/ukraine-the-sovereignty-argument-and-the-real-problem-of-fascism

asciilifeform: from the circus:

asciilifeform: u.s. steel production vs. salmonella incidence in france. log-log plot.

asciilifeform: aha

asciilifeform: ?

asciilifeform: http://nypost.com/2014/03/12/trader-throws-self-in-front-of-train-in-finance-worlds-latest-suicide/

asciilifeform: dexX7: i bet most people don't try to exploit stuff << 'you may not be interested in war, but war is certainly interested in you.'

asciilifeform: the 'trezor' stuff is almost physically painful to read. it's as if they knew every single correct design decision, and did... the exact opposite.

asciilifeform: rent a $20 box in some godforsaken rack, bounce packets off that.

asciilifeform: phun phact. only consumer ISPs are part of the 'n strikes' pact.

asciilifeform: or a public room full of copper ones...

asciilifeform: ok, enough for a silver toilet.

asciilifeform: ;;calc 10149.736107 / 682.24

asciilifeform: ;;calc 10149.736107 / 6.53

asciilifeform: ;;calc 633.99 * 16.0093

asciilifeform: ;;ticker --ask --currency USD

asciilifeform: s/lamb/trabamb

asciilifeform goes back to tweaking PLL clock on cardano

asciilifeform: you might do it to demonstrate an indestructible robotic prosthesis, but otherwise it's pointless

asciilifeform: seems like a proposition that's purely lose-lose, like sticking hand in a bear trap.

asciilifeform: what useful thing could one hope to achieve by dropping pants and publicly displaying bitcock?

asciilifeform: truly.

asciilifeform: best proof of this oddity - their own www sites.

asciilifeform: galicia (western ua) is a curious 'nature preserve', where critters thought extinct in the 1940s roam freely.

asciilifeform: 'The guest post from Renée last week appeared on this blog because Huffington Post refused to run it. And now I hear that no comment linking the new Ukrainian government to the neo-Nazis or the neo-Nazis to the mass murder in Kiev can get through on any news site. It seems like there is an actual news blackout on this message.'

asciilifeform: http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-crimean-crisis-and-western-bias.html

asciilifeform: meanwhile,

asciilifeform: some lost soul will try to make use of this 'revelation' and accidentally out of a window.

asciilifeform: polar explorers, 'pemmican'

asciilifeform: coffee shop in this town is, afaik, 100% uni grads.

asciilifeform: but work they do.

asciilifeform: s/cured/straightened

asciilifeform: 'a hunchback is cured by the grave.' (rus. proverb)

asciilifeform: incidentally, even a 100% proper science/maths/etc degree can be a liability, as you'll only be considered for the higher paygrades (naturally tighter musical chairs)

asciilifeform: we have tighter 'caste stratification' here than in victorian england. an engineer, programmer, even lowly clerk, might live a whole life without speaking to these folks.

asciilifeform: Diablo-D3: i have yet to run into an american who lamented 'i'd like to find work picking tomatoes, but couldn't on account of mexicans'

asciilifeform: most of the people i know with actual degrees - yours truly included - (sci/eng.) had, at the time of signing up, delusions of employment in academia

asciilifeform: benkay: probably not the cattle. but the folks who actually know some useful trade.

asciilifeform: maybe poor choice of words. 'employment' rather than 'work'

asciilifeform: usa

asciilifeform: this place would probably empty out overnight if everybody had work elsewhere.

asciilifeform: ThickAsThieves: leo szilard supposedly said 'wisdom consist in getting on the train a day before everybody else.'

asciilifeform: there are many similar shops

asciilifeform: i went once, in >2 decades. it was a warehouse full of el-cheapo.

asciilifeform: names are working parts. even matsushita finally changed its name.

asciilifeform: like pcdos vs. msdos

asciilifeform: sometimes i wonder if i actually learned english, or was cheated and given something vaguely compatible

asciilifeform: ;;google burgomeister

asciilifeform: kakobrekla: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=12-03-2014#556748 ☝︎

asciilifeform: 'buzzfeed' - the bus bars which supply current to an electric chair?

asciilifeform: someone must tell Tuurdemeester about Expertsexchange.

asciilifeform: let me guess - aggregator for dope aficionados?

asciilifeform: joecool: wtf is buzzfeed

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: perhaps i should also ask them, next, the best way to avoid write-hazards on MIPS4.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: quite a few u.s. folks know 'the dirt' re: 'the boston tea party.' it isn't exactly a national secret.