asciilifeform: call it 'fair witness' (for aficionados of Heinlein)

asciilifeform: let the bastards eat shit.

asciilifeform: or for the truly loaded and profligate: to the blockchain...

asciilifeform: there is, or at some point, will be, a market for a video gizmo that streams public-key-enciphered stream to a box in a non-u.s. jurisdiction.

asciilifeform: benkay: picture, how many similar cases, where the video was successfully destroyed.

asciilifeform: for some odd reason, nobody ever gets this lucky in meatspace casino.

asciilifeform: some joker cracked the prng?

asciilifeform: 'we suffered pretty heavy losses due to an unusually lucky big player...'

asciilifeform: (example of 'zerocoin' etc)

asciilifeform: the various schemes for mathematically-founded anonymity

asciilifeform: e.g. crypto-blind block chain, etc.

asciilifeform: just for the record, there is the (so far entirely theoretical) possibility of movement in the other direction

asciilifeform: best thing is, any hypothesis in the field is immediately testable, all you need is a computer.

asciilifeform: do newly-elected german chancellors still have to fly to washington to get secretly sworn into muppethood?

asciilifeform: 'cyber security experts' are being supposedly minted here around the clock, and yet the folks i work for couldn't find one kid who could so much as operate 'ida pro', in ~6 mo. of trying.

asciilifeform: speaking of graham, http://www.paulgraham.com/ff.html

asciilifeform: the fact that this is a surprise to anyone is the real surprise.

asciilifeform: fuhrerprinzip.

asciilifeform: perhaps softer gravity, smoother roads...

asciilifeform: except the 'jaegers' were somewhat good at what they did.

asciilifeform: read german material re: partizan hunting sometime. reads just like u.s. 'counter-insurgency' doctrine.

asciilifeform: Mats_cd03: half-life of tritium in the boosters is ~13 yrs. 'use it or lose it.'

asciilifeform: Mats_cd03: also helps to distinguish between what one might call 'the real thing,' and the american export knockoff product.

asciilifeform: yes, them.

asciilifeform: turkish janissary ruling caste comes to mind.

asciilifeform: http://www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2014-01/notwehr-nsa-spionage-us-botschaft

asciilifeform: ;;rate bingoboingo 2 retrocomputing archaeology enthusiast, intelligent commentary.

asciilifeform: ;;rate mircea_popescu 5 sorcerer of the forces of good, and overall fun guy.

asciilifeform: ;;rate diametric 1 maestro of mechanicals, S.NSA

asciilifeform: ;;gpg everify freenode:#bitcoin-otc:c6f53e203890629be816dc0b454353bee2dfdbbb22b0a28e1fb2bf0e

asciilifeform: ;;gpg eauth asciilifeform

asciilifeform: the btc equivalent is when someone hangs you upside-down and connects you to a mains socket, to extract your keys.

asciilifeform: broken pipes won't be a problem. the copper's been 'harvested.'

asciilifeform: http://cryptome.org/2014/01/internet-foxes-hens.htm

asciilifeform: eventually people's brains will grow and they will stop thinking of market value as a scalar. ☟︎

asciilifeform: because how else.

asciilifeform: betcha the idiot x86 os will still treat it as a separate disk abstraction.

asciilifeform: take-home lesson: tie your self-destruct switch to a gyro.

asciilifeform: amAzing business model...

asciilifeform: sell an ordinary 'ups' for $XXXXX by renaming it

asciilifeform: unrelated: http://www.cru-inc.com/products/wiebetech/hotplug_field_kit/

asciilifeform: we're all in approx. the same age 'band', old enough to be in a hurry, young enough not to be impotent yet

asciilifeform: thx nubbins

asciilifeform: turned 30 <2 mo. ago

asciilifeform: to me this seems as much of a certainty as every sufficiently large freighter docked in u.s. port containing some cocaine

asciilifeform: nobody at the plant needs to know about the little special strange thrown onto the die (in the space where they'd otherwise print 'here be dragons')

asciilifeform: i still say that ~all the foundries are baking miners. just not ones that you can buy and plug in.

asciilifeform: history repeats, pgp is reborn, clinton is elected, etc.

asciilifeform: nah, that's not news, that's in-line with the scheduled rerun of the 1990s.

asciilifeform: but, shoot

asciilifeform: already pretty busy

asciilifeform: press?

asciilifeform: http://iraffiruse.net/post/56447319803

asciilifeform: 'colourless green ideas sleep furiously'

asciilifeform: http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2014/01/openbsd/ ?

asciilifeform: 'thou shalt not be caught'

asciilifeform: don't break the '11th commandment.'

asciilifeform: http://cryptome.org/2014/01/guccifer-arrested.htm

asciilifeform: the rent for my 20m^2 consulting rathole near dc would buy a 4-story office building in baltimore.

asciilifeform: 2. it's a little hard to move it to a reasonable place

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you did bring up idiots being released from their straight jackets. so the next question is, what sharp tools to give them

asciilifeform: you could try selling the secret of what days the doomsday machine will be turned on/off.

asciilifeform: 'nice altchain you got there. i'd be a shame if it were to have problems.'

asciilifeform: other than by giving up in disgust

asciilifeform: and how do you 'fix' a 51%'d chain?

asciilifeform: if it can, stands to reason it will

asciilifeform: zap one, move on to the next

asciilifeform: would be interesting if the main use of spiffy miner collections becomes: destruction of altcoins

asciilifeform: even cpu mining is profitable if you're a spammer

asciilifeform: ('51' attack is exercise for alert reader)

asciilifeform: build 25 of them and keep in your basement.

asciilifeform: 1GH for, say, litecoin is... 2% of the current total net hash?

asciilifeform: much less give it to another

asciilifeform: i still don't understand why a fellow with an scrypt asic would bother to tell anyone about it.

asciilifeform: usually with very minimal modification

asciilifeform: i can't say that i've collected every known sample, but virtually all crap artists are using some variant of gpu-capable miner

asciilifeform: gpu botnet

asciilifeform: my understanding was that ltc is mined primarily via botnet at this point.

asciilifeform: enlighten me (a savage) - is this really a seriously lucrative affair?

asciilifeform: a saw, a spot welder...

asciilifeform: (nothing to do with mining)

asciilifeform: but anyone can go to hardware store and buy aluminum window frames. i did this myself not long ago

asciilifeform: openrig?

asciilifeform: or is this an M16 and ltc miner combo

asciilifeform: why does a litecoin-anything need to be machined?

asciilifeform: forms in triplicate, etc.

asciilifeform: i imagine most of the operating cost of such a shop is bureaucracy-based, rather than actual work

asciilifeform: my understanding is that if it weren't for this, the last american machine shop would go broke.

asciilifeform: so they cut things off and re-fit them

asciilifeform: in u.s. there is an ancient law regarding firearms being required to have X locally-made parts

asciilifeform: who didn't. there is even at least one american copy.

asciilifeform: most popular old-regime romanian item here in the u.s. is: their kalashnikov clone.

asciilifeform: commodore-64 tape drive? not very commie, that

asciilifeform: phone should rrrrring damn it not make bleating noises.

asciilifeform: s not just the bakelite

asciilifeform: it

asciilifeform: http://museum-ic.ru/content/telefon-tan-5

asciilifeform: how much for my ТАН-5?

asciilifeform: 'don't trust your heirs with your dangerous phone? turn it in for a penny'

asciilifeform: 'cell phone turn-in' ? is this like the 'turn-ins' american police stations have for firearms?