asciilifeform: (actual vircator or other known mechanisms gives nothing close to 100%)

asciilifeform: and picture 100% of the chemical energy converted into a radio emission of whichever type you prefer. ☟︎

asciilifeform: take a traditional bomb, of any practical size you prefer

asciilifeform: why? do a gedankenexperiment

asciilifeform: the notion of a useful non-nuclear emp weapon is transparent grantsmanship

asciilifeform: turn the planet's magnetosphere into a dynamo.

asciilifeform: the reason why it is so easy to produce massive emp with nuke is, charged particles zinging around in van allen belt.

asciilifeform: u.s. claimed that they zapped the entire iraqi power grid with emp, a transparently laughable tale

asciilifeform: source was a russian report

asciilifeform: B007: dig it up yourself

asciilifeform: explosively-pumped vircator.

asciilifeform: if they had used a classical bomb of the same weight, they could have levelled it.

asciilifeform: knocking it out for several hours (they had to change an amp)

asciilifeform: during 'desert storm' u.s. popped an emp bomb above an iraqi radio station

asciilifeform: incidentally, emp weapon other than traditional nuke is more or less a joke

asciilifeform: (one can laugh at the implementation, but not the physics.)

asciilifeform: ex: http://www.theprepperjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/FaradayBox-HowTo.png

asciilifeform: Vexual: towed antenna.

asciilifeform: although the schoolbook typically starts with a spherical shell as example

asciilifeform: nope

asciilifeform: on the outside.

asciilifeform: regardless of flux

asciilifeform: conductor in a metal shell, zero induced electric field inside

asciilifeform: greene's theorem.

asciilifeform: better still, trimethyl aluminum.

asciilifeform: sealed conductive chassis (nobody cancelled Greene's theorem)

asciilifeform: instead of radio

asciilifeform: pill against emp is to use line-of-sight optical links between the 'bees'

asciilifeform: all great. except that you only need one 'bee' up the tailpipe.

asciilifeform: let's see with what they will shoot a swarm.

asciilifeform: pocket-sized flyers, forming phased-array antennae

asciilifeform: swarms.

asciilifeform: before long, you have a 'strela.'

asciilifeform: diy war machine ought to be regarded as disposable. so solid rocket engine would make the most practical sense.

asciilifeform: or if they'll just take the cheapest shot available

asciilifeform: when i read these folks, i wonder if they'd care for stallman if he were washed & dressed

asciilifeform: benkay: flight time = ?

asciilifeform: one fellow around here published cross-references that made an old set of exercises usable, he was expelled, if i recall.

asciilifeform: so students can't use last year's book.

asciilifeform: they also have a tradition of re-issuing the same text year after year, with renumbered exercises

asciilifeform: was in a uni bookstore not long ago. there are books costing 150-200 usd

asciilifeform: you can get usable copy via cheap camera, even phone camera, using a stand - a la 'spy minox'

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this shit is SOP at american unis

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: my first thought.

asciilifeform: Vexual: ?

asciilifeform: might as well be a microcontroller.

asciilifeform: 100 - clock jitter.

asciilifeform: B007: box controlling some stepper motors. hence single-tasking OS where you can simply execute 'CLI' and kill interrupts, getting 100% deterministic timing with empty loop.

asciilifeform: Vexual: manual? next, a manual for a knife or fork?

asciilifeform: B007, BingoBoingo: i actually had occasion to set up a brand-new ms-dos box just recently.

asciilifeform: talented barbers: see the musical 'Sweeney Todd'

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the amazing things i've learned in this place.

asciilifeform: yes. is there anyone here who has not shaved with this? i'm curious what is remarkable about it

asciilifeform: (circa 20th c.)

asciilifeform: Duffer1: looks like a normal razor

asciilifeform: why does the subject need a how-to ?

asciilifeform: aha

asciilifeform: could shave with anything that one can sharpen. partizans shaved with axe.

asciilifeform: Duffer1: how on earth does one shave with dual-edged blade? i mean, you can use one edge at a time

asciilifeform: the general problem with eating shit for nutrition is...

asciilifeform: greenspan_fan: invest in a pocket geiger.

asciilifeform: more directly relevant to the poor fish, but that's beside the point

asciilifeform: ;;google hormonal water pollution

asciilifeform: just the fact that a facility where a number of folks run winblows pisses crapware c&c packets through its net pipe the way the sewer outlet of a girl's dorm pisses progesterone (look it up...)

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: wasn't talking about browser 'user agent' data, either

asciilifeform: sometimes, using blockchain...

asciilifeform: beauty of running winblows is that it admits it for you

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'that scary moment when you google a word ... discover that as far as google knows, the only instances it was ever used are on your blog' << 'rectothermal'

asciilifeform: (gulag!)

asciilifeform: http://www.bing.com/maps/default.aspx?v=2&FORM=LMLTCP&cp=qfrswb8k5mwp&style=b&lvl=2&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&scene=22932432&phx=0&phy=0&phscl=1&encType=1

asciilifeform: found original, http://makeameme.org/media/created/my-car-gets.jpg

asciilifeform: 'this jallopy gets xx furlongs per hog's head...'

asciilifeform: (BCD!)

asciilifeform: wonder if ibm still builds base-10 machines.

asciilifeform: i thought it was strange that your first thought was in base-10...

asciilifeform: no deep science here.

asciilifeform: there ya go

asciilifeform: log10(2^128) ~= 38.53

asciilifeform: quite.

asciilifeform: author is a parodist, not a cryptographer.

asciilifeform: certainly.

asciilifeform: more from this lulzatron: http://whitehouse.gov1.info/tunnel/index.html

asciilifeform: quite a few of these are works of art.

asciilifeform: http://nsa.gov1.info/utah-data-center/aerial-utah-data-center.jpg

asciilifeform: 3d drawing.

asciilifeform: http://nsa.gov1.info/utah-data-center/photos/2014/utah-data-center-2014.jpg vs http://nsa.gov1.info/utah-data-center/photos/2014/nsa-utah-spy-center-2014.jpg ?

asciilifeform: (seriously. mormon church issues them under signature.)

asciilifeform: with barcodes!

asciilifeform: from dept. of lol: http://nsa.gov1.info/utah-data-center/index.html

asciilifeform: (whose name escapes me)

asciilifeform: conway became the personal nemesis of the author ☟︎

asciilifeform: interesting book on the subject - 'the man who would be queen'

asciilifeform: (better example: lynne conway)

asciilifeform: wendy carlos.

asciilifeform: (no mention of anyone called woods in that piece...?)

asciilifeform: aha

asciilifeform: who's woods?

asciilifeform: the turd is unremarkable; quite like the usual winblows rootkit, except for the fact of 1) ships in stock bios on most x86 laptops and 2) c&c servers eschew authentication or crypto (!)

asciilifeform: i actually sat on a jury some years ago in a case where 'computrace' was the evidence.

asciilifeform: (tldr version: 'useful' bios rootkit enabled by default on some boxes)