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mircea_popescu: can i get more detail out of you than "it's being worked on"!
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla he likes the word. it bestows journalismity.
mircea_popescu: and holy shit, don't you just love this brave new world with such policemen in it.
mircea_popescu: PinkPosixPXE if it's like 3-400 how about getting a pair.
mircea_popescu: PinkPosixPXE how about i buy you some dedis and you admin them and run a host for btc business ?
mircea_popescu: "oh, i see you're trying to connect to a vps that a) you've not connected before and b) is being attacked ? come back next week."
mircea_popescu: PinkPosixPXE how about write the script so that you keep track of foreign hosts, and once packet limit is reached for a vps all foreign hosts that aren't on the list of hosts it connected in the past 24 hours get banned across the entire network ?
mircea_popescu: cazalla yeah i see. qntra is so successful i got lost among the articles :)
mircea_popescu: i seem to recall a bunch of these, and they're all fucking respectful.
mircea_popescu: just as an idle exercise, imagine how that article'd have sounded if the criminals were some usg agency, stealing the woman's drive and not giving it back.
mircea_popescu: Phraust not much really. same old bs, restated in all seriousness by a new generation of turnips.
mircea_popescu: "Welcome to the new ransomware economy, where hackers have a reputation to consider." "welcome to the post-modern world, where 'criminals' are more reliable than governments, and certainly more useful."
mircea_popescu: "So what can we all do to protect ourselves? Keep our computers backed up on an independent drive or by using a cloud backup service like Carbonite, take those software update and “patch” alerts seriously"
mircea_popescu: and it shits on his useless applepad or whatever the fuck it is.
mircea_popescu: "moms who persist in using big, boxy PC computers and small-town police departments."
mircea_popescu: decimation: my only problem is that it seems somewhat dangerous << from what i hear it's actually safer than flying planes.
mircea_popescu: decimation: such a law is obviously intended to protect criminals (politicians, bureaucrats) <<< or young women having casual sex.
mircea_popescu: there is no such thing as "plagiarism" anymore than there's burning bushes or actual sides of christmeat.
mircea_popescu: ascii_modem: 'plagiarism' may be a 'sin of the flesh', but plagiarists exist just the same as 'wankers' exist. << not what i meant. what i meant was the construct's nonsense.
mircea_popescu: wow check out mike_c dominate the qntra wordcounts in dec.
mircea_popescu: the thing where i put it in a pastedbin dun work, im sick of looking up the url for the deedbot one.
mircea_popescu: ima do it once done with reports, announcements and other first of month stuff
mircea_popescu: yeah. i guess this calls for a whole new category on trilema.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, since we're on it : anyone wish to write a proper ircd ?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: it may be unfair to tar all work done since satoshi with the power rangers brush. <<< term only came of age last year.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski: but parents who found out that their kids had been disciplined at school often disciplined the kid again at home << pretty much yes.
mircea_popescu: decimation: re: costco & amex << I suspect amex gives costco a deal (pays them) to force a large percentage of the upper-crust customer-base to have an amex card in their wallet << pretty much how that racket goes yes.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: thestringpuller: it's funny how Gavin is all "I want bitcoin to compete with Visa/Mastercard", when anyone in Payment Processing knows those systems are seriously nigga rigged as is. << nobody expects gavin to say something sensible anymore than they'd expect ronald mcdonald to.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller: cazalla: "I helped run plenty of conferences." << no, he has a point. that's exactly how that racket works.
mircea_popescu: what are bitcoin people supposed to be, a sort of ferguson negroes, "hey, nothing will happen because reasons, but here, have this tupperware container to scream in."
mircea_popescu: "We think that a Q&A period, moderated by someone you choose, will provide the proper forum for people to make their voices heard. We think that this layout, instead of a speech, is the appropriate forum."
mircea_popescu: cazalla : maybe ask the man where he did his 6 months' study ?
mircea_popescu: go there hang out with like... all the scammers, all the have-beens and all teh posers ?
mircea_popescu: lol ook, buterin, ver and ... wtf is wrong with gallippi ?