asciilifeform: decimation: mcaffee claimed, in an interview, that he's been demanding that his name be taken off the crapware for a decade now.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: nah, his neighbour (supposedly!) did.

asciilifeform: as discussed 3 days ago.

asciilifeform: buy a submarine instead.

asciilifeform: what goes in #2, in the canonical 2) ??? 3) profit!

asciilifeform: build a data house where you're stuck with $1/MB dish for isp?

asciilifeform: at the risk of opening the door to the cold wind of reality: what's the business model?

asciilifeform: 'UKUSA treaty'

asciilifeform: 'pentagram of evil'

asciilifeform: knotwork: but why would he put it in a '5 eye' country?

asciilifeform: or is that sold separately

asciilifeform: does it come with the legal permit to hang around in canada?

asciilifeform: you don't need a princely mil-sup estate for a radio station, though.

asciilifeform: good place for the transmitter?

asciilifeform: btc over shortwave!

asciilifeform: nothing in the old missile shafts really works correctly

asciilifeform: these are sometimes sold in the u.s., but are typically gutted when put on the market.

asciilifeform: knotwork: why so cheap? arctic circle?

asciilifeform: so 'hardware wallet' is 'lukewarm'

asciilifeform: btc priv. key is: compact, and (can be) used rarely

asciilifeform: pgp priv. key is: long; and used rather frequently

asciilifeform: but 'more convenient' than cold wallet. seems to me like this encourages a state of perdition.

asciilifeform: i never really understood the appeal of 'hardware wallet.' maybe someone would care to explain it to me

asciilifeform: pankkake: with an inexpensive tool, yes.

asciilifeform: jurov: hardware is entirely reasonable, gcc targets it. you can add chess if you like.

asciilifeform: in case anyone was confused.

asciilifeform: i mean, i'm not opposed to the idea in principle, but this isn't what we're currently making

asciilifeform: Duffer1: who said anything about s.nsa hardware wallets?

asciilifeform: not bronze. that mexican recycled steel with the radioactive cobalt-60 in.

asciilifeform: http://www.fiftythree.org/etherkiller/

asciilifeform: shaman and eclipse.

asciilifeform: fair enough

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: you may have 'jumped the gun' with the bsd piece. the peanut gallery won't believe until theo admits.

asciilifeform: (object of shame, rather than pride!)

asciilifeform: http://www.reddit.com/user/asciilifeform/

asciilifeform: 15,772 'karma.' would sell it for a buck if i could.

asciilifeform: forum death is permanent.

asciilifeform: and the thinking people... are elsewhere.

asciilifeform: whether or not this is true, their symbionts (spammers, hucksters, beggars of all stripes) are still there.

asciilifeform: the snakepit before 'reddit'.

asciilifeform: i was linked there twice, and it was deadly boring each time.

asciilifeform: so it is saved now?

asciilifeform: indium tin oxide is conductive. and transparent. ☟︎

asciilifeform: wouldn't do to have a back row seat in the gasenwagen, i always say.

asciilifeform: must feed, yes.

asciilifeform: crt can be seen, from miles away, with 1970s tech.

asciilifeform: that Mac... has built-in CRT? cage has a 10" hole?

asciilifeform: and where does yours go?

asciilifeform: ebay, ~100 usd.

asciilifeform: eats a modern ATA SSD just fine.

asciilifeform: the size of vhs tape. no radios.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: re: vintage junk: Toshiba Libretto 110 cages very well.

asciilifeform: (ami the only one who automatically thought 'grassy knoll')

asciilifeform: at least it isn't 'Google Knol'

asciilifeform: or: the mexicans left a lunch box in the cooling tower. so, jams.

asciilifeform: new transformer at ft. meade, but fuse isn't to spec. blows every day.

asciilifeform: they have those here too, at fuel stations

asciilifeform: no LEDs here, afaik

asciilifeform: 'hot dog in hallway'

asciilifeform: comically small for the fixtures

asciilifeform: many with the jagged wrecks instead of full CFLs - vandals

asciilifeform: but have piddling little CFLs in them for some years

asciilifeform: funnily: in wash.dc, the late-19th c. light poles near the Capitol and Smithsonian (museaums) are sized for those mega-bulbs

asciilifeform: 500W i think

asciilifeform: wonder if they're the same soviet caliber i saw!

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the mega-incandescents?

asciilifeform: as in the dimmers commonly sold. (hence why they often buzz slightly.)

asciilifeform: but now you can use PWM, silicon rectifier.

asciilifeform: (or that of other bulbs in series)

asciilifeform: except using the filament's own resistance

asciilifeform: as late as 40 yrs. ago, there was no way to economically regulate the current flowing through the filament

asciilifeform: the claims of 'bulb conspiracy' are not physically accurate, though

asciilifeform: betcha those would last decades at 100W

asciilifeform: anyone remember the bulbs they used to have in street lamps? the size of a man's head?

asciilifeform: ('underclocked' edison bulb)

asciilifeform: on the other end of the spectrum... http://www.centennialbulb.org/

asciilifeform: the luminosity/watt claims (transparently bogus, visit an electronics store) and the lifespan claims (chinese driver electronics in the lamp base)...

asciilifeform: just need the right rare earths

asciilifeform: so in principle you can get any colour you like

asciilifeform: white led is based on the same principle as the classic fluorescent tube ('phosphour', but with IR led instead of gas plasma for the excitation)

asciilifeform: i still have yet to see an led lamp that will evenly light a room without being the size of a small tv set.

asciilifeform: the CFL thing is cynical bastards knowing exactly what they're doing, rather than mere ineptitude.

asciilifeform: one that radiates too much in RF?

asciilifeform: what, one might wonder, is an inefficient electric heater?

asciilifeform: nubbins`: there are persistent rumours of people buying crates of classical lights to speculate in, when the black market comes.

asciilifeform: their ventilation probably eats more kW/hr. than these machines.

asciilifeform: looks like a microvax in there (mid-right)

asciilifeform: (obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBLr4wbiR6E)

asciilifeform: 'openbsd, running on dead squirrel in shoebox since 19xx...'

asciilifeform: (usd)

asciilifeform: ~20k, says

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: why yay ?

asciilifeform: there are mining nets 1mil+ strong.

asciilifeform: 'most famous spy' != 'best spy'

asciilifeform: remember: 'famous spy'

asciilifeform: it was the most valuable 'psychiatric' find in the field, because the disk was full of correspondence with customers and half-finished work

asciilifeform: winblows what else

asciilifeform: if i recall, he was making about 1k usd / mo.

asciilifeform: in June, the fellow who wrote a popular trojan, 'Caberp', was pwned, and his whole disk posted for public amusement

asciilifeform: 'ineedadrink, gimmme'