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mircea_popescu: as far as they're concerned, any stupidity they try is ok, "nobody could have foreseen it won't work" and it's putin's fault.
mircea_popescu: beautyon i don't think you understand how the us politico mind works.
mircea_popescu: i had plainly forgotten that article, imagine my surprise when i see an unfamilir title called up and the server actually respond.
mircea_popescu: doubt they will. some pool ops might be clueless enough to try and hijack the network to please gavin/usg, but that's ok, they'll get shot later.
mircea_popescu: beautyon even if a vast majority of miners switch it still doesn't do anything for him.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo am i thick or is the answer about as related to what it quotes as gavin's "covered" is related to economy ?
mircea_popescu: wtf bs "right to be forgotten". there's no such right, unless they're forgotten they're remembered.
mircea_popescu: i'm counting it as a marketing expense, unless we win, in which case hey, free money.
mircea_popescu: but one can readily understand why a verizon for dns is worse than any alternative.
mircea_popescu: the agenda of computing security is moved towards increased pwnability in the exact same way and for the exact same reasons the agenda of political discussion is moved towards increasing socialism.
mircea_popescu: it's funny how these write-ups never fail to include some call or other to "join the horde"
mircea_popescu: "While you’re monkeying around with your router setting, consider changing the router’s default DNS servers to those maintained by OpenDNS."
mircea_popescu: orly. im sure they're "commercial" in a sense other than, "moar bezzle"
mircea_popescu: "The botnet is not made entirely of home routers; some of the infected hosts appear to be commercial routers at universities and companies"
mircea_popescu: but that'll happen before "quantumcomputing" of any description, so...
mircea_popescu: (incidentally, that's kind of what that's designed with in mind. if we get quantum boxes, gossipd will be the killer app for it)
mircea_popescu: instead, people having in their house the quantum equiv of gossipd
mircea_popescu: anyway, it may be that the entanglement experiments come to fruition, and shortwave as well as the current telco version of internet become obsolete at the same time.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> (using the latter, conceivably, you might leave your receiver running for three days and in the end a light comes on; and then you can hear an hour-long broadcast.) << could leave it right to the rainfall collecting bucket
mircea_popescu: then if i see my stuff republished on mfa farms/whatever later on, it's trivial to ban the leech.
mircea_popescu: i used it extensively in the 2010-2011 period to identify and ban content spinners
mircea_popescu: if you look at the feeds they start with a token which describes the parser for my use
mircea_popescu: PeterL i even excluded your parser from teh branding programme
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla srsly polling much more frequently than that's just a waste.
mircea_popescu: can it be set so it scans every minute, on a diff second by the blog list ?
mircea_popescu: cazalla $2 a day can't be a lot if you're stuck with a $500 piece of machinery + the bills for its maintenance.
mircea_popescu: having the skin covered in hair seems evolutionarily beneficial.
mircea_popescu: there's nothing wrong with peripheral hairs, is what i'm saying. the idea is to not have hair in the core, on the liver, inside the lungs.
mircea_popescu: "I do not now nor will I ever care about the "readability" or "elegance" of (codebases worth 5 bux)."
mircea_popescu: yeah, the civil militia project of selling as many as possible, once the jews ran out.
mircea_popescu: cugir "sewing mahcine" factory turned out millions of em.
mircea_popescu: im sure one can buy an ak if one asks for it in romanian tho :D
mircea_popescu: i've really not kept up with it. maybe not, they're commies.
mircea_popescu: i can scarcely imagine what i would want an old assault rifle for.
mircea_popescu: yeah, except in a society that does this everyone's doing something else stupid to compensate willy-nilly.
mircea_popescu: i'd rather have 10 cops that have a ld50 dose of 3 shooting assailants than 10k cops that basically constitute ballistic sacks.
mircea_popescu: should they call home and have an adult male take them in hand ?
mircea_popescu: should they carry mace and avoid walking alone at night to the car ?
mircea_popescu: is the paris police force in danger of rape ? what's next ?
mircea_popescu: this isn't a "and they run into a cop while he had his back turned and shot him dead". this is "french police reliably can not hold its own against determined assailants". well...
mircea_popescu: on one hand, because a lot means they're expensive, and taken from more useful stuff. on the other, because if the cop can't hold his own then why even have him.
mircea_popescu: but that's exactly my problem here. there are A LOT of derps masquerading as cops. neither of these is good.
mircea_popescu: so. ran into a random patrol. shot at them. moved on, ran into another. shot at them too. ran into random cop. shot him too.
mircea_popescu: nouvelle fusillade: un policier, âgé d’une trentaine d’années et rattaché au commissariat du XIe arrondissement, est touché puis froidement abattu au sol.
mircea_popescu: En quittant les locaux, les assaillants tombent sur un véhicule de police en ressortant dans la rue. Ils ouvrent à nouveau le feu avant de remonter à bord de leur Citroën. Une course-poursuite s'engage. Ils empruntent l’allée verte, une rue perpendiculaire à celle du siège de Charlie Hebdo. Croisent une autre patrouille de policiers, en VTT. Nouveaux tirs, sans victime. Arrivé sur le boulevard Richard-Lenoir,
mircea_popescu: how the fuck do you run into three police cars doing three miles in the utter periphery ?
mircea_popescu: what was it, 19th arrondisment ? that's like... barracas, basically.
mircea_popescu: they don't stop crime, they just bother the 0.x% remaining parisians who actually have a job that's not enacted by hollande's fiat
mircea_popescu: NONE of which manage to do anything but get shot. why even call them police then ? what are they for, hussling people, right ?
mircea_popescu: davout anyway, epic fucking police state you got there. so, some people driving through the armpit of paris run into three police patrols. because wtf, 30% of all paris works as cops or something ?