asciilifeform: good gift for these folks: a rubber hose. with mouthpiece and arsepiece on the respective ends.

asciilifeform: using btpension from btgov ?

asciilifeform: used to be that mr. luser had to bite the bullet and delete a pron or two, download the blocks.

asciilifeform: proliferation of castrato 'wallets,' yeah.

asciilifeform: brotha can ye spare a dime/node

asciilifeform: for some reason

asciilifeform: thought these were a dime-a-dozen

asciilifeform: 3 are mine

asciilifeform: woah

asciilifeform: how many, i wonder, are running

asciilifeform: classic bitcoind?

asciilifeform: s/becoming/remaining/

asciilifeform: s/Bitcoin/usd/;s/double/half/

asciilifeform: paypal fuhrer?

asciilifeform: not as a currency << as a coffee warmer?

asciilifeform: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flooding_Valve_Manifold.jpg

asciilifeform: a kingston, for the navally-noobish:

asciilifeform: (cards, as you can probably guess, are for the mainboard breadboard...)

asciilifeform: one twist, poor thing goes to the bottom of the sea?

asciilifeform: (more things ought to have scuttling valves!)

asciilifeform: hence why i bought them. yet old brain detritus dies hard.

asciilifeform: 99% of the delay is /dev/random.

asciilifeform: invent parachute before, not after, being thrown.

asciilifeform: and it would all fit in a page or so of your favourite prog. language.

asciilifeform: authentication is automagical, etc.

asciilifeform: spam and beggars vanish

asciilifeform: the people who like decentralization get that

asciilifeform: in the proposed experiment, you get a whole bunch of problems solved 'for free', without moving parts

asciilifeform: then you get 'mailcoin' (or call it what you like)

asciilifeform: you can easily dispense with 'Y' if you're ok with an 'expensive' channel.

asciilifeform: 'the best machine is no machine' (herr altschuller) ☟︎

asciilifeform: authentication is 'automatic', in the sense that only an addr's owner can send from it.

asciilifeform: this would require very little code.

asciilifeform: X and Y become your 'handle'

asciilifeform: 'recycle' the coin by moving from Y->X when some time passes (to minimize fee.)

asciilifeform: you'd 'log in' once, by sending a tx with some specified value to 'A' (addr of 'channel') and two others, say, X and Y. low byte of every tx value X->Y is a payload byte.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: that was the object of the (gedanken)experiment, yes.

asciilifeform: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-02-12/another-jpmorgan-banker-dies-37-year-old-executive-director-program-trading

asciilifeform: as observed by MP and others.

asciilifeform: luser-friendly -> user-hostile.

asciilifeform: anyone with a btc node could be the 'server.'

asciilifeform: (everybody's handle is their addr)

asciilifeform: and no need for gribble

asciilifeform: blockchain then becomes the log.

asciilifeform: (e.g. spammers)

asciilifeform: except, obviously, for folks who are kicked out of the 'channel' in disgrace

asciilifeform: the server (if one may call it that) could even be programmed to return coin to the sending addr every now and then

asciilifeform: pankkake: correct.

asciilifeform: would certainly encourage terseness.

asciilifeform: trick is - getting your phriends to use it.

asciilifeform: anyone can do it.

asciilifeform: this is quite easy to build

asciilifeform: it would be a little slow. perhaps more like mailing list than irc.

asciilifeform: all the bums/beggars would be gone...

asciilifeform: imagine if every byte you threw in this channel cost a few satoshi.

asciilifeform: one could imagine a 'decentralized conference'. send ascii chars as low-bytes of TX to addr A.

asciilifeform: that, or GRU lives, and it's #1 beautifully masquerading as #2.

asciilifeform: it's a horse head on a pillow. demo.

asciilifeform: like that chinese rocket test off the CA coast.

asciilifeform: given the almost total lack of english-language news coverage of the event, probably #2.

asciilifeform: either an 'own goal' (the finest security theatre) or a 'floor model.'

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: power grid shenanigan is old news. pinged you when it went public.

asciilifeform: poor man's strela.

asciilifeform: toy chopper + several ir bolometers (as used in burglar alarms.)

asciilifeform: 'frozen goose test'

asciilifeform: as we will probably learn one day

asciilifeform: even a toy chopper in the intake might be problematic.

asciilifeform: no big feat of high tech, to break a defenseless flying bus.

asciilifeform: wire guide. you need a skilled user.

asciilifeform: if the plane is in musket range, sure.

asciilifeform: (more or less simply 'strela' with the seek-trigger taped down.)

asciilifeform: brilliant simplicity, unmanned aerial 'mine.'

asciilifeform: or 'strela-blok', the automatic/unmanned version.

asciilifeform: strela.

asciilifeform: perhaps some hero, somewhere, has fit one in a 30 m^2 flat, but not me.

asciilifeform: the bigger cutters tend to have circulating (vs. sealed) lasing gas, which is a royal bitch.

asciilifeform: http://theinfosphere.org/Mobile_Oppression_Palace

asciilifeform: moiety: it'll go in my Mobile Oppression Palace (tm).

asciilifeform: benkay: i'd love one, but where to put the truck-sized instrument.

asciilifeform: benkay: that'd be the 'adult' version.

asciilifeform: if you often have occasion to make very fine cuts in thin materials.

asciilifeform: moiety: these are fairly common, off-the-shelf widgets. you can buy them, ~1k usd.

asciilifeform: moiety: 'when used as prescribed,' beam lives in the box.

asciilifeform: moiety: 0-40W, there's an analogue knob.

asciilifeform: tube is abundantly chinese, good for maybe 1000 hours.

asciilifeform: (bottom red)

asciilifeform: red wire is 35kV

asciilifeform: the back of the cabinet, yes

asciilifeform: this is more or less the smallest size they come in (for practical use, that is)

asciilifeform: moiety: the piece that does, the, well, lasing - http://www.loper-os.org/wp-content/laser/tube.png

asciilifeform: these are standard on Machine Tools That Mangle Flesh (tm)

asciilifeform: moiety: exactly what it looks like. hit with fist, cuts off the mains. twist to unpop.

asciilifeform: moiety: sorta like an expensive jigsaw.

asciilifeform: 50kg or so.

asciilifeform: moiety: it's a fat little bugger: http://www.loper-os.org/wp-content/laser/machine.png

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i kept waiting for the Pythagorean drowning scene in there.

asciilifeform: moiety: over here it's the opposite, reason perhaps being that people would mount rams (or the like.)

asciilifeform: beast that lives on woodland edges + traffic -> daily bloody mess.

asciilifeform: moiety: this is an everyday sight on the wash. d.c. beltway.

asciilifeform: see history of 'glue sniffing.'