asciilifeform: ideas, so cheap.

asciilifeform: (they all have ethernet plugged in already, no?)

asciilifeform: re: btc exchanges: i'm still waiting for the day of tyrannical bans, when we stuff in cash / receive 'jackpots' from 'malfunctioning' soda machines to convert fiat.

asciilifeform: aha

asciilifeform: (do most people typically come by surprise? i've no idea, not having been to his house before)

asciilifeform: just 5 guys signed up for MP's party?

asciilifeform: (or a fedex truck...)

asciilifeform: 'no city is defended whose walls can admit an ass loaded with gold.'

asciilifeform: rather than defense in the usual sense of the word.

asciilifeform: and survive long enough to get a return-shot in.

asciilifeform: but that was mainly to delay the inevitable

asciilifeform: russians (and, at one point, americans) were willing to pop nukes over their own city at one point

asciilifeform: correct.

asciilifeform: rocket is cheaper than any conceivable 'death ray' or other countermeasure.

asciilifeform: keep them coming until the death rays cannot keep up

asciilifeform: all enemy needs to do is fire enough rockets simultaneously...

asciilifeform: a death ray can zap one rocket at a time.

asciilifeform: so now you need a certain number of them, to cover however-many steradians sector of fire.

asciilifeform: death ray must be physically aimed.

asciilifeform: imagine you possess a death ray that magically zaps a rocket, from any distance. ☟︎☟︎

asciilifeform: let's do gedankenexperiment. ☟︎

asciilifeform: just in case.

asciilifeform: no one even tangentially involved with u.s. mil. work has any real doubt as to the actual purpose of 'missile defense' crap.

asciilifeform: on top of it all, the earth... is round.

asciilifeform: must be behind schedule.

asciilifeform: just looked out the window. no steel mesh dome over wash., d.c. yet.

asciilifeform: you know it was there when the payload pops.

asciilifeform: the whole point is to fly below radar

asciilifeform: btw people fundamentally misunderstand the chinese rocket in the link.

asciilifeform: or boat. great lakes, as suggested by V. N. Chelomey.

asciilifeform: the20year: it'll be ground-burst. because fedex, rather than ballistic, delivery vehicle.

asciilifeform: (decoys)

asciilifeform: basic problem is, the answer to a 'defensive' missile is always cheaper than itself

asciilifeform: last i heard, moscow is still covered by '50s-style mini-nuke launchers.

asciilifeform: http://www.sacbee.com/2014/02/06/6136333/calif-leaders-outline-proposed.html

asciilifeform: 8 shots -> somebody wanted to know where the coldwallet is.

asciilifeform: accidentally-filled-bathtub-with-HCL-instead-of-water CEO.

asciilifeform: when do we get the chainsaw-autodecapitated CEO?

asciilifeform: 'shot first, asked questions later'

asciilifeform: damn

asciilifeform: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2553964/CEO-commits-suicide-nail-gun-company-investigation.html

asciilifeform: 'for every smart orifice,' there's a spiked hedge-c0k...

asciilifeform: i sorta live there

asciilifeform: UCC-style.

asciilifeform: ah that's lame. should be diddled in a way that survives recompile.

asciilifeform: trojaned in the 'magic block sets up the bomb' style

asciilifeform: i'm still waiting for the first directly trojaned altcoin.

asciilifeform: if lifted from classic btc, it's compatible.

asciilifeform: shat out by vanitygen, so, it is.

asciilifeform: can we get altc addrs in those?

asciilifeform: cat pgp.pl > /dev/tattoo

asciilifeform: http://techtripper.com/a-tattoo-making-robot-that-etches-your-forearm-with-a-religion-of-its-own-choice/

asciilifeform: ok fake. but exactly what i imagined.

asciilifeform: http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/moodinq-tattoo.shtml

asciilifeform: fake?

asciilifeform: http://www.thinkgeek.com/images/products/other/moodinq_main_zoom.jpg

asciilifeform: (optical mouse scans skin just fine, try it)

asciilifeform: newer ones with an optical mouse-style sensor instead of the wheels almost work.

asciilifeform: they sure did.

asciilifeform: yes

asciilifeform: doesn't have to be full body - can run it over skin, like a shaver.

asciilifeform: (the man invented the dot-matrix printer! seriously.)

asciilifeform: (can't help but think of Kafka's 'The Penal Colony')

asciilifeform: dot-matrix style

asciilifeform: wonder if anyone makes a tattoo printer.

asciilifeform: deadweasel: old news

asciilifeform: 1snsaCCwLsKjuUqfjK7qat696P5xYCoYn

asciilifeform: what's the addr algo for 'altcoin' ?

asciilifeform: what's the plan? dump when moon is full?

asciilifeform: could be all of it

asciilifeform: incidentally, we cannot possibly know what parts of the dpr story are fictional

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: or why dpr ever had to see, touch, or smell the wares personally

asciilifeform: aha he wanted to convert bag of cash to btc.

asciilifeform: btc, pgp, card stripe writer.

asciilifeform: still don't understand why a fellow buying/selling stolen card #s needs to meet anyone in person.

asciilifeform: btw that part is mostly used 'for evil' (e.g. vendor-locked printer cartridges)

asciilifeform: same idea though

asciilifeform: or maybe it was a previous atmel

asciilifeform: in the early days of fpga mining

asciilifeform: i actually first came across that atmel part when looking into commercial ICs having sha256

asciilifeform: if anybody here has a box of ATSHA204 and an electron microscope, now's your hour!

asciilifeform: but yes, the linked widget is just atmel's old crypto accelerator mounted on an adapter board: http://atmelcorporation.wordpress.com/2014/01/30/atmels-atsha204-helps-secure-the-bbb

asciilifeform: i consider the 'host box doesn't know it has a crypto widget attached' an essential feature of cardano, but maybe that's just me.

asciilifeform: most of the boards coreboot supports are full-size pc mobos

asciilifeform: (formerly known as 'linuxbios')

asciilifeform: not really connected here

asciilifeform: coreboot is an x86 bios replacement

asciilifeform: there are other pocket-sized arm/linux affairs, they cost a little bit more.

asciilifeform: (whole core runs closed-source blob at all times)

asciilifeform: and so they went with an insultingly closed arch

asciilifeform: broadcom inc. tempted them with at-cost cpu offer

asciilifeform: commonly sold at hobby electronics outfits

asciilifeform: ras.pi, for anyone who doesn't have one lying around, is a (relatively) cheap arm box.

asciilifeform: easy, with bare hands.

asciilifeform: remove cardano i/o daughterboard, attach ras.pi or commodore 64 or whatever, you have a machine-controlled unit.

asciilifeform: live by VLSI, die by VLSI.

asciilifeform: but there are different ways to do it, and the differences matter.

asciilifeform: people should know that the idea of cryptographic hardware is not the least bit new.

asciilifeform: apparently.

asciilifeform: it has a (satanic) rng built in.