asciilifeform: and did all of this shit really go down, or was it a dream.

asciilifeform: (or, are we to think that scammers write honest code)

asciilifeform: and if so, why weren't the obligatory logic bombs set off

asciilifeform: did some chump really build a whatever-the-fuck with a set of leaked sources?

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this probably wasn't the purpose of 'compendium of basic points...,' but now i'm marvelling over the ancient forum garbage

asciilifeform: StercumExchange (tm)

asciilifeform: 'Effective immediately, we are discontinuing all breathing pending an atmospheric gas review. At this time we are unsure when, and if we will resume breathing in the future.'

asciilifeform: ;;rate MagicalTux -10 pathetic Judas Goat.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: not sure if 'informative' is the word, but educational, perhaps.

asciilifeform: (paging mircea_popescu!)

asciilifeform: on activists, 'equality', etc. with english subs. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTfw5jDK94Y&app=desktop

asciilifeform: maybe i'm thick - not sure how this connects

asciilifeform: afaik, gox is japanese solely in the geographic sense.

asciilifeform: (under no circumstances are cattle permitted to wander unguided, mp had a piece on this if i recall)

asciilifeform: and now that it's dead, they will be sure to send the cattle directly to whatever replaces it in scamspace.

asciilifeform: the u.s. media of whom gox is arguably a creature.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: the people who by all rights ought to be taking some heat, but aren't, are the enablers.

asciilifeform: like paltry $1B

asciilifeform: folks who think they have an efficient solution to an np-complete problem should not settle for small change.

asciilifeform: ;;google man woman dog matching

asciilifeform: what planet.

asciilifeform: 'technical jobs are very scarce' << wait what

asciilifeform: unrelated, but relevant to 'interesting times': http://bloodandtreasure.typepad.com/blood_treasure/2004/09/further_chronic.html

asciilifeform: tldr: run more winblows, usg

asciilifeform: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/02/iranians-hacked-navy-network-for-4-months-not-a-surprise/

asciilifeform: the one with the dildo

asciilifeform: goes well with that other bouncyball gif

asciilifeform: 'for what have i prepared this beautiful golden stake?'

asciilifeform: let the man sleep, folks. he sleeps, what, once a week?

asciilifeform: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-02-24/another-successful-banker-found-dead

asciilifeform: what's sirf?

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: same

asciilifeform: herr tito, famously: 'Stop sending people to kill me. We've already captured five of them, one of them with a bomb and another with a rifle... If you don't stop sending killers, I'll send one to Moscow, and I won't have to send a second.'

asciilifeform: ж

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what's a Ro keyboard like?

asciilifeform: in favour of translit-pinyin

asciilifeform: i thought even the chinese have renounced weirdo keyboards

asciilifeform: reminds me of a cracked copy of ms-vb i saw as a kid, registered to 'ňäáíé'.

asciilifeform: '... the first western nuclear power plant in eastern Europe'

asciilifeform: more of a ford, no?

asciilifeform: for anyone who doesn't know the score re: 's.nsa', i personally only earn anything if the product works as advertised and is well-loved.

asciilifeform: 'inquiring minds want to know'

asciilifeform: or is it conditional capitulation

asciilifeform: do i get tried at nuremberg?

asciilifeform: people who liked the numbers widget should respect the tomb of von neumann, not me.

asciilifeform: haha

asciilifeform: wish i knew why

asciilifeform: once the complete blueprints for the current product are published, the carcass becomes less essential. and this too should end up priced in.

asciilifeform: *earthly

asciilifeform: at any rate, i do assume that mpex users have brains and that the amount of s.nsa operations presently resting on my earthy carcass is priced into the shares.

asciilifeform: etc

asciilifeform: suppose nuclear war.

asciilifeform: suppose $fill-in-the-blank splits << suppose we're all hanged tomorrow.

asciilifeform: Apocalyptic: http://www.loper-os.org/bad-at-entropy/manmach.html

asciilifeform: Apocalyptic: if you're a decent player of 'von neumann's mindreader' game, you can safely use your own fingers.

asciilifeform: http://www.billthelizard.com/2009/09/getting-fair-toss-from-biased-coin.html

asciilifeform: depending on how crufty your coin is, you may have to throw it several hundred times.

asciilifeform: for 8 bytes, toss a coin manually and apply von neumann's debiasing algo.

asciilifeform: Apocalyptic: more importantly, do you need random bytes that others do not have a copy of?

asciilifeform: Apocalyptic: how many do you need? and for what use ?

asciilifeform: seems like there was a time when anyone with something to write had decent penmanship.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: that's the good king vlad.

asciilifeform: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d1/Wladislaus_Dragwlya.JPG

asciilifeform: .

asciilifeform: phrenology,

asciilifeform: textual analysis, wonderful thing

asciilifeform: mebbe i'm an unknown usenet spammer from 1994.

asciilifeform: who, i wonder, am i

asciilifeform: i wonder how many other people are szabo now.

asciilifeform: the swine appear to be indifferent to the pearls, though

asciilifeform: just, how low does the signal to noise ratio need to go

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i meant you in the sense of your firm, naturally

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: one of the great mysteries that my puny brain is powerless to digest is why you & mpoepr haven't decamped and left that forum to the radioactive cockroaches and rats

asciilifeform: the same ones who came up in your research of 'sovereign citizen' crapola

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: there is a whole u.s. subculture of astoundingly illiterate folks who will fall for this

asciilifeform: the days of ham-handed 'nsakey' are long gone.

asciilifeform: a very convenient 'bug.'

asciilifeform: assumed that nobody gave a shit

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: posted it here several days ago

asciilifeform: not entirely related, for those concerned with obfuscations, homomorphic trickery, etc. : http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2014/02/cryptographic-obfuscation-and.html

asciilifeform: neato

asciilifeform: 'Му sister, do you still recall, как Ельцин бился мордой в пол…' (sf writer V. Pelevin)

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnz9lOXQP3w

asciilifeform: 'gorbama.'

asciilifeform: ah ah

asciilifeform: cats with irc habits? now definitely time for me to sleep...

asciilifeform: mpoe-pr ?

asciilifeform: is the implication of $foowife something like 'married to the sea' ?

asciilifeform: is there a litecoinwife?

asciilifeform: what the hell is a bitcoinwife? i'm going back to sleep.

asciilifeform: jurov: p1q1 = p2q2, for some p2q2

asciilifeform: jurov: (perhaps belated) 'duplicate moduli' is exactly what it says on the box.

asciilifeform: but a more beloved, more lucrative national sport - graft.

asciilifeform: u.s. national sport, zapping defenceless savages from a safe distance.

asciilifeform: the cheapest weapon is the fictional one.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: if this ever becomes popular, conductors will be insulated.

asciilifeform: but, much as any general would love 'death ray', there is no death ray.

asciilifeform: fired in a two-parter - emp shell to blind sensors, classical shell follows behind.

asciilifeform: the one and only such item of some actual military use is a (current) russian anti-tank shell that detonates at an approach of ~1m

asciilifeform: regardless of how this emanation is aimed, nobody cancelled inverse-square law.