asciilifeform: decimation: got at least 6 of those just on my street.

asciilifeform: classy crapware, btw, tends to speak with pure udp.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: lol

asciilifeform: decimation: neither the only nor the most egregious kludge in the ref. client.

asciilifeform: it's yet another idiot funnel for the public treasury (incl. grants) into the pockets of 'seekoority' hucksters.

asciilifeform: old news

asciilifeform: if someone saw fit to do so.

asciilifeform: the point was not that diddled tomatoes in particular will replace smokable delights, but that the idiocy of prohibition could be technologically finessed

asciilifeform: doesn't have to be an exact replica. only equally fun. and not readily visually detectable.

asciilifeform: and then THC-secreting genmod tomato is introduced, and people forget the idiot political crap.

asciilifeform: poor english.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: interesting how there is never a translation (of whatever quality) to english

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: re: 'The Death of Fulger': http://flibusta.net/b/268651/read#r73

asciilifeform: (re: 'orchestra.')

asciilifeform: but the facts are, well... factual.

asciilifeform: it's a spoof (if that wasn't clear)

asciilifeform: jurov: i saw that thing (and, if i recall, posted it here) when it came out.

asciilifeform: (where the beasts were taught to fight with knives)

asciilifeform: perhaps in soviet-era military delphinarium?

asciilifeform: 'selective plane illumination' microscope. not relevant to anything, except that the photo inevitably leads to the thought, 'hate to be the one caught in an airport search with this.'

asciilifeform: nubbins`: close.

asciilifeform: 'guess the gadget'

asciilifeform: http://i.imgur.com/z5OXztS.jpg

asciilifeform: see, ex: 'bit-squatting'

asciilifeform: mathematical view of this: what is the 'mutation-space' surrounding the 'correct' state like.

asciilifeform: correct.

asciilifeform: incl. instructions.

asciilifeform: in arbitrary space.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not classical fuzz, understand. bitflips.

asciilifeform: (or know of someone who has)

asciilifeform: q: any of you folks ever bitflipfuzz the referenceclient ?

asciilifeform: meanwhile, at ft. meade: http://oglaf.com/trapmaster

asciilifeform: http://oglaf.com/riteofpassage

asciilifeform: the original seems to have vanished into the aether.

asciilifeform: i honestly can't remember where i lifted it

asciilifeform: http://www.loper-os.org/wp-content/netad.jpg

asciilifeform: (the physical ends.)

asciilifeform: i suppose there, somewhere in the jungles, there still lives a fellow who has seen neither end of a satellite tx/rx.

asciilifeform: it comes with an extra helping of insult to the intelligence of a five-year-old ?

asciilifeform: why dignify this horror with a link ?

asciilifeform: right

asciilifeform: 'dog sees master as large dog' theorem.

asciilifeform: gorbama.

asciilifeform: provably fair: http://oglaf.com/bugfuck

asciilifeform: http://oglaf.com/game-death

asciilifeform: parachute theorem.

asciilifeform: re: reference client rewrite etc. : http://oglaf.com/chronotherapy/

asciilifeform: just the same as always.

asciilifeform: to entertain people with cartoons while they lay back and get pwned

asciilifeform: at any rate, a beartrap is a beartrap, stick your foot in if you enjoy that kind of thing.

asciilifeform: 'syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.'

asciilifeform: the less dour the presentation, the more childlike the graphics, the more guaranteed.

asciilifeform: i always think, 'scroll down to where the bastard wants your keys'

asciilifeform: can't believe nobody noticed that tidbit

asciilifeform: channelling herr moldy and orlov: '...it's not clear that you'll want the old world on your resume.'

asciilifeform: lol

asciilifeform: embrace & extinguish (TM)

asciilifeform: what could go wrong.

asciilifeform: let's store private keys on this other fellow's box!

asciilifeform: hell, it's exactly as dumb as 'online wallets'

asciilifeform: the fucktards are the lusers.

asciilifeform: hard-working public servants!

asciilifeform: www.hadilaksono.com

asciilifeform: keybase.io/chadilaksono

asciilifeform: famed artist & designer

asciilifeform: Caroline Hadilaksono

asciilifeform: chriscoyne.com

asciilifeform: keybase.io/chris

asciilifeform: co-founder of OkCupid and Keybase

asciilifeform: Chris Coyne

asciilifeform: MIT Ph.D., PDOS Group

asciilifeform: keybase.io/max

asciilifeform: co-founder of OkCupid and Keybase

asciilifeform: Max Krohn

asciilifeform: keybase.io

asciilifeform: scroll to bottom

asciilifeform: 'famed artist & designer'

asciilifeform: '...co-founder of OkCupid and Keybase.'

asciilifeform: '...certain crypto actions (signing and decrypting) are limited to users who store client-encrypted copies of their private keys on the server, an optional feature we didn't mention above...'

asciilifeform: re: 'keybase' link: brilliant honeypot

asciilifeform: i never understood

asciilifeform: who the hell pays for trojans, also

asciilifeform: stoopid folks are stoopid, news at 11

asciilifeform: someone still uses ftp!

asciilifeform: http://threatpost.com/large-list-of-ftp-credentials-for-sale-in-underground-forums/104275

asciilifeform: yeah i never understood the appeal of giving slaves actual computers. give them graphic terminals and be done with it

asciilifeform: what it was named after.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: remember 'back orifice' ?

asciilifeform: the art of turdcraft has really gone down hill, people write shit in vb even.

asciilifeform: ah well yes.

asciilifeform: or did you mean something else

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: there was genuine lua in the turd

asciilifeform: http://blog.malwarebytes.org/intelligence/2012/06/rats-of-unusual-sizes/

asciilifeform: anyone remember the multi-MB nsa turd in lua?

asciilifeform: and then we do physics, chemistry... ?

asciilifeform: truly.

asciilifeform: if we do it with some fancy multi-keyed crypto widget, it'll double as a tontine...

asciilifeform: so we're doing both 'ignobel' and nobel?

asciilifeform: hundreds to pick from?

asciilifeform: ('do business with keys' formula)