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cazalla: asciilifeform: what's a ghost telegraph? i cannot find anything on google

asciilifeform: 'this ghost telegraph! it'll be what i'm remembered for! just needs a little tweaking.'

asciilifeform: when they become anxious to carry out a 'last hurrah,'

asciilifeform: the 'time microscope' thing is typical of aging inventors who, by virtue of being cut off from competent peers (either by having none alive, or being on the wrong side of a jail of one kind or another) ☟︎☟︎☟︎

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu, others: if you think that the enemy is foolish, and has no plan, this is a dangerous mistake: he is clever and knows the ancient chinese formula 'Yi yi zhi yi' (以夷治夷 ?) - 'control the barbarians using barbarians.'

bitcoinpete: On the recent Flexcoin oopsie. He's a local kid, met him a few months back.

ozbot: Early Classical Revival Websites Do Not A Bitcoin Bank Make | When Bitcoin Met Pete

bitcoinpete: http://bitcoinpete.com/2014/early-classical-revival-websites-do-not-a-bitcoin-bank-make/

asciilifeform: lev termen was a true inventor

BingoBoingo: It kept an adequate number of equations for a book with chapter titles like "Manifolds of n dimensions"

BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: If the text in question was http://www.roadsolutions.ox.ac.uk/ I have it sitting on a shelf

asciilifeform: a physicist (forget which) who took to writing 'general interest' books, was told by his publisher 'every equation you throw in will cut sales in half'

Mats_cd03: id write it if making books was a profitable activity

Mats_cd03: a topic-specific book would definitely be good though

Mats_cd03: sounds like a shit job

deadweasel: ummm, there might be a few more requirements

deadweasel: depends on the editing, but you have a point

Mats_cd03: lets face it, most people would have to read a book before reading _that_ book

mircea_popescu: a french version...

deadweasel: a shockdoc version

deadweasel: a troll version

deadweasel: a drama version

deadweasel: a laymans version

deadweasel: yhou could have a techno savvy version

mircea_popescu: i never heard anyone rejecting a book idea on the grounds that goats wouldn't read it.

deadweasel: considering what the forum consumes, i think it'd be a hit.

deadweasel: everyone deserves a shot, no? plus, she may write the story so well you want to fuck her.

Mats_cd03: a book about bitcoin would suck anyway

deadweasel: like a book of letters, highly edited for cruft

deadweasel: no no, highlights, tell it as a story, connected, but with the cruft removed.

mircea_popescu: 50 fucking volumes for a coupla years ?

deadweasel: frankly I'm saving the logs for when one of you enterprising fucks puts consolidates and puts them into a book, as a sort of People Guide to the History of Bitcoin.

mircea_popescu: ("start with a big one")

mircea_popescu: seeing how his main contribution is branson's guide to making a small fortune from air travel

deadweasel: You're preaching to a deaf choir' i don't even....

ThickAsThieves: <mircea_popescu> ThickAsThieves any merit to all that ? /// i'm not sure i even understand what that is. The thread isn't moderated, but maybe someone reported a sock ot something? I had the poster on ignore already fwiw

asciilifeform: no one bothers to laugh at chinese moto-rickshaw, because it doesn't pretend to be a car

asciilifeform: rather, because it was a car for people who can't afford car.

bitcoinpete: because you had to wait a decade for one?

asciilifeform: it wasn't simply because it was a plywood jalopy with a grass cutter engine.

asciilifeform: people seriously misunderstand why trabant was a laugh

mircea_popescu: so the owner is a trabambourgher ?

ozbot: Pig Eating a Car (5 pics)

asciilifeform: 'Experts say SAT scores have long been strongly correlated to family income, a dynamic the College Board hopes to shake up.'

the20year2: There's the final rehab video for a property we just got done. Total cost to investors was $62.5k

asciilifeform: '....college admission test.... a major overhaul intended to open doors to higher education for students who are now shut out.'

asciilifeform: he'll be plugged with a mistletoe arrow ?

ThickAsThieves: As for the pseudonym – a tactic reminiscent of that of Bitcoin’s mysterious, unidentified creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, auroracoin’s founder says, “The agents of the state will attack anyone challenging their power, so I chose a name from Norse mythology to shield myself from such attacks.”

BingoBoingo: I imagine BitBet is going to have to blacklist the WSJ as a source nao

ThickAsThieves: cmon now "(This ranking excludes the digital currency Ripple, whose market cap of $1.6 billion does not make for a fair comparison. Most ripple coins are retained by the issuing entity under a centrally managed model that’s very different from the decentralized networks employed by other alt.coins.)"

BingoBoingo: It is one thing to leak the Petagon papers. It is a road further though to leak the Pentagon papers and run for President on the credentials of having leaked the Pentagon papers.

benkay: i had a lot of fun saying 'scam' at the local bitcoin enthusiast part last night

asciilifeform: (if i could sing it to you, this would be an engineering project rather than a flight of imagination.)

BingoBoingo: Bugs in an arithmometers are correctable with Fresh brass embouches and a bastard file

mircea_popescu: nubbins` im a control freak.

BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Imitations, I.E they went to classical NSA approved competitor for device with a pretense of similar function

mircea_popescu: i dunno, iconducted a few

benkay: "What anointed property is bestowed upon “dollars” which, being absent from bitcoins, precludes their usefulness? If you would not even eat your supper without the government first giving you its blessing, then I feel sad for you, for you are truly under a dismal spell and, and suffer a strange kind of man-in-the-sky worship."

nubbins`: a friend did his thesis on the crying of lot 49

asciilifeform: merely a way to multiply bignums using your 'language cortex', every child knows it

gribble: (bcauth <nick>) -- Initiate authentication for user <nick>. You must have registered with the bot with a bitcoin address for this to work. You will be given a random passphrase to sign with your address, and submit to the bot with the 'bcverify' command. Your passphrase will expire within 10 minutes.

asciilifeform: i even own a little book on SNOBOL. so clearly.

asciilifeform: just read 'shall be delivered' a year or so ago

BingoBoingo: Probably have to be a pirate investment banker to remember all of the slurs

jcpham: if they really really knew gox was a shitshow 6 months ago...probably should've told someone

asciilifeform: '... the judge then ruled that the death of a keyholder at the hands of his fork is to be considered 'assisted suicide.' when he finished belting out the last verse of Modified-Karatsuba Anthem, his secretary drew her Nagant... '

mircea_popescu: "Welcome to the forum. MPOE is our most accomplished scumbag, a rumored child pornographer and a confirmed idiot. His business model is simple-minded: talk shit about everyone else to avoid scrutiny. Because he has no dignity or good breeding, he basically sells stock in himself, a sadistic, sexually confused Romanian Mafia reject. Anything he says can be disregarded, you won't miss anything valuable."

BingoBoingo: Fuck, I run a billion dollar ATC hedge fund for a private client

mircea_popescu: nubbins` what, and s.nsa is a trillion dollar company ?

asciilifeform: nubbins`: if you refuse to buy a Boeing, some other fellow gets to, in your name

nubbins`: no reason why my credit card number can't be a "master key" and i just generate one-time-use cc numbers for purchases

asciilifeform: * musical interlude * - 2047: mr. barack hussein IV was six foot tall at the time of his coronation, but lost his key - inscribed on a napkin - and unfortunately / bifurcated / two years later. he is now five foot eight, half-chinese, with a red beard.'

nubbins`: generally fulfillment companies have a forum presence, will be interesting to see if they respond there

asciilifeform: it's also the fact that the alternative is a mercilessly-cryptographic concept of identity

asciilifeform: it isn't just the fact that money lenders like that, though i refuse to borrow a million, some other fellow can swipe my driver's license and do it for me

nubbins`: i'm giving them one more chance before i issue a chargeback

asciilifeform: quite a few people don't seem to understand the implications

nubbins`: a fucking jackson.

nubbins`: when i inquired about a partial refund, they offer me $20

nubbins`: almost a month late

nubbins`: lel, so we outsourced some printing to this company in california. 14% of the order is missing when it arrives -- no explanation, no "we'll get the rest sent out soon", just numbers changed with a pen on the packing slip. i emailed company, they say "oh sorry -- we'll get the rest to you by march 24"

mike_c: just hire a new CIO! chopping a couple heads fixes everything.

mircea_popescu: mike_c finding a way to paper over the fact that they STILL do not wish to use security is going to take some effort.

mircea_popescu: this is a fucking epic article.

mike_c: just lost a little personal data on 110 million customers.

mircea_popescu: mike_c didn't they recently lose a db ?

ThickAsThieves: i could stand to lose a few

mircea_popescu: lalusch yeah but still there should be a "no later than 5th of the month" or something

mircea_popescu: methinks ThickAsThieves is a little jaded these days

ThickAsThieves: Beth Jacob, who has served as Target's chief information officer and executive vice president of technology services since 2008, is vacating both positions and departing the company immediately. According to CEO Gregg Steinhafel, the retailer has already launched a search for an interim CIO to help steer Target through a major security overhaul.

lalusch: giving the exact dat of dividend payment could make the stocks price crash 2 minutes after div payment as just 1 bigger player has to sell then, on such a low volume

gribble: (last [--{from,in,on,with,without,regexp} <value>] [--nolimit]) -- Returns the last message matching the given criteria. --from requires a nick from whom the message came; --in requires a channel the message was sent to; --on requires a network the message was sent on; --with requires some string that had to be in the message; --regexp requires a regular expression the message must match; (1 more message)

lalusch: Would anyone be so kind and give me a link to information on the Scharmbeck scam? lost track of this whole thing about a month ago

mircea_popescu: I thought I was reading the script for a bad cop movie. Did the government use a plea agreement to force Charno to help the government capture drug reps that he had never even met?

mircea_popescu: The trick was, Dr. Charno was actually a government informant. That's odd. And I have never heard of a doctor who requested a promotional speech. He cold called a rep he had never met and asked to meet him to discuss a drug he had never prescribed?

mircea_popescu: Dr. Gleason eventually came, and, in the presence of Caronia, had a discussion with Dr. Charno about off-label uses for Xyrem (insomnia, restless legs, etc). Is Caronia responsible? Should he have stopped Gleason? The court said yes, and convicted him.

mircea_popescu: On October 26, 2005, [drug rep] Mr. Caronia went to Dr. Charno's office. He had never met Dr. Charno before, nor had any previous contact with him but for the phone calls from Dr. Charno seeking a promotional speech. During the meeting, Dr. Charno repeatedly asked Mr. Caronia off-label questions and asked to meet Dr. Gleason [a speaker for the company.]

mircea_popescu: benkay nenver underestimate the advantage of a harem of slaves.

ThickAsThieves does a little dance.

mike_c: it's tough being judge & jury. not a job I envy.