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mircea_popescu: yep, the roland freiser thing is quite on point. fucking fatlogic, well done cnn.
mircea_popescu: "10 reasons Preet Bharara should be the next attorney general" "Investment banks were most responsible for the devastating economic downturn, yet the costs of their opportunistic behavior were placed on the shoulders of everyday Americans, who lost jobs, retirement savings, and confidence in the market."
mircea_popescu: "This was a single Windows executable with well over a hundred man-years of blood, sweat and tears invested in it." idiot, srsly.
mircea_popescu: the guy's lying through his teeth, michael o church style ?
mircea_popescu: "They spent several months testing my code, comparing its performance with their old database, which was pretty primitive but known to be reliable." vs "If their application went down for even a day, it would cost them hundreds of thousands of dollars. This was a common occurrence, as their existing application was pretty buggy."
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: BitBet mixer is why I thought prop stakes were refunded minus fee << that's like advanced class.
mircea_popescu: "hi, i had my tits done at your clinic two weeks ago but my husband left me for a younger woman anyway so i'd like a refund now because you didn't provide a service".
mircea_popescu: i suppose if there wasn't an obamacare "you don't have to pay your own medical bills" the us consumer'd "have come to expect" that he only pays if the surgery/treatment is successful.
mircea_popescu: i suppose providing a service doesn't count as providing a service except in those cases where the beneficiary is happy with the outcome or something ?
mircea_popescu: crybabi: but i won't be using bitbet again, charging a fee when you don't provide a service is no way to run a business << o.O
mircea_popescu: decimation mats : the situation with freenode is that it's basically a sinking ship / abandoned tech. the few hanger ons do not actually have the werewithal to do anything other than push the levers, which they sort-of understand how to do, but various rooms are constantly being sealed off because "it's too much". it's indubitable that freenode will eventually sink, and it won't take it decades, for this very reason.
mircea_popescu: same reason napoleon tried to invade moscow not magnitogorsk, same reason the barricades went up in paris not derpue-sur-herpoise
mircea_popescu: decimation: although one wonders why mr. spam targets this channel instead of -otc << this is worth something.
mircea_popescu: "asciilifeform: no actual human transmits $maxint whatevers from a single ip per second/hour/etc" except a) yes they do and b) 4kb should be enough for everyone.
mircea_popescu: there's also 723 pieces of email thanking me or otherwise discussing the wordpress hole. since the 16th.
mircea_popescu: there's like... 6 different ones from ninjashogun AFTER hanbot wrote that post.
mircea_popescu: occasionally there's some sec "senior attorney" gofer. the vast majority is X dude who doesn't like the fact that trilema maintains a copy of whatever stupid evil shit he did a few years ago and figures "hey, a few years ago means it never happened"
mircea_popescu: cazalla i get between a few and a dozen poorly cobbled together "legal threats" each week.
mircea_popescu: PeterL: so instead of just saying "eauth peterl", now we will say "eauth peterl <signature by key goes here>"? << conceivably, you'd say something like .rate url exactly hjow notary bot [used to] work
mircea_popescu: nanotube: it is being worked on. but have a lot of other stuff on my plate. once everything is signed, there will not even be a need for something like "auth". <<< this is a good point. having identity implemented as a stateful thing is mindboggling anyway. stuff like cloaks and so on pale in comparison.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: even if you do, there is no guarantee that other readers see the same thing you see << yeah, there is.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: re: wot: (question to all present) - how often do you re-read your own wot history? << weekly.
mircea_popescu: security is not reducible to "build a really thick steel plate"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: PeterL: you have to - yes. mr i-owned-fleanode nsa clerk - no. <<< yes, let him do this, love to see it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: (i'd love to hear a rationale for it) << people other than nanotube are keeping track of the various scammers trying to use gribble.
mircea_popescu: there's a lot of benefit for any 7yo in having a close friend that lost some appendages to heavy machinery.
mircea_popescu: mike_c: that sucks << there's a lot more depth to this point than meets the eye. us children are inept these days first and foremost because they have been removed from the workplace in the 50s and 60s, under the guise of "safety" and the general nonsense where "Everything must be separated" that also yielded zoning laws etc.
mircea_popescu: mike_c: the solution being, we lock them out. << "if we kill all the babies, we will in fact have reduced infant mortality to an unmatchable 0 in subsequent years"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: mike_c: sure. <<< tis melting like april snow, the case.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, the project does need more resources. if you feel like reading and submitting the thing, signed, jurov's keeping the list and erryone'd be moar than happy.
mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic in theory there is no difference between theory and practice.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: i think the main issue is he wont be able to take credit. << omfg the slanders.
mircea_popescu: mod6 it is somewhat used. not that widely. then again, linuxkernel is widely used. so what of it.
mircea_popescu: decimation: freenode seems to attract folks like mr. spam << has 0 to do with freenode. everything sweet attracts gnats.
mircea_popescu: honestly i don't even know that the raw transaction power ranger implementation was ever read by anyone.
mircea_popescu: mod6 at some point the code transforms an user indicated tx into an actual tx.
mircea_popescu: and since the fiat world mostl yexists as a staging scene for various social engineering attacks, from preet bharara onwards, this isn't a good design.
mircea_popescu: moreover, if there's a central repository of the log that's also an exclusive repository of the log, the incentive for nefarious idiots a la ninjashogun to attack it via social engineering increases
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: the observation that, on account of the log existing, we don't need human idlers for anything at all, was correct << at the very least they provide a passive certification of the log.
mircea_popescu: mod6 why exactly wouldn't be there be an easy way to simply insert raw txn ?
mircea_popescu: the disposing of drooling idiots is an unrelated matter, and if pursued at all should not be pursued in the heat of fake emergencies.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: honestly im not sure whats worse, autoddos or autoban. << i really don't see much incentive to do anything at this point. i mean, the ddos guy was moreover useful, for as long as he kept iot up. i didn't think he's reliable, and he proved that much,so.. whatevs.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: registered << same easy spamatron << moar horribru, now you're giving positive incentive to create unused accounts.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: hm. how about 1 min auto voice on join for unseen nicks? << horribru
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, it won't do anything for the case at hand, because well... dude can just get in the wot, what's the big deal.
mircea_popescu: lowers load on freenode, and if they're actually concerned there's whatever skullduggery going on they can just get into teh wot.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: i think the least damaging way is to kick nicks that are idle sing sing-on. asciilifeform: wanna idle for >5 min, get in wot. << yeah. i can see this, especially as people who wish to simply read logs can just as well read the webpage.
mircea_popescu: mod6 i've been thinking about it, not entirely sure it actually belongs in the core.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: 'amplification' idiocy is trivially tested for, and any isp which doesn't yank the offending lusers ought by all rights to be killed upstream << pretty much this, yes.
mircea_popescu: Adlai: so paycoin has progressed from vaporware to real, nitrogen-rich altcoincrap? << no, but some derp who feels rich on the cash value a car monthy payment somehow figured he has something to say.
mircea_popescu: there's technically no possibility to have "no checkpoints", block 1 will willy-nilly be a checkpoint.
mircea_popescu: ascii_modem i just assumed he implemented the "no checkpoints" in the shape of a "set your own, defaults to 1" sort of thing
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: I have a ton of cool photos from that adventure << you need to start blogging in serious.
mircea_popescu: 'cept the perky titted little bitch started feminism and was banished to fatlandia.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: so for a time, God did permit a man to have more than one wife. (see, for eg. Genesis 4:19; 16:1-4; 29:18-30:24) - but God did not originate the practice of polygamy. He provided only one wife for Adam. <<< bs. the original family was adam eve an' lilith.
mircea_popescu: jurov: you want to say homosexuality is okay if it's master/slave relationship? << win. get into leather while you still can!
mircea_popescu: everything's being retroactively uncondemned, 'cept his.
mircea_popescu: jurov: nothing about fags? danielpbarron: that's condemned <<< poor j, just can't catch a break.
mircea_popescu: equality is not something of this, or any other world.
mircea_popescu: assbot: Will Ripple Eclipse Bitcoin? - Slashdot ... << "Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."
mircea_popescu: jurov: lmao it says there was 1 x.idiff.dec traded on 2012-12-13 and nothing since << sounds about right.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller: really 0 volume on idiff for DEC?!?!? << myeah.
mircea_popescu: jurov: ;;later tell mircea_popescu x.idiff.dec expired < myeah.
mircea_popescu: where chicks come with their tank tops to sit atop your tank's top and take their tops off
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: Obligatory slogan: "Come and get Tanked!" << better yet, "tank top off tuesday"
mircea_popescu: but no, they can't light them on orange or something. gotta be that god awful pseudo-white
mircea_popescu: it'd be so much more helpful if they simply didn't backlight them with evil fucking uv diodes
mircea_popescu: the lit lcd bs is absolutely insane. i use brighness at 1-2% on all these lcd things.