asciilifeform: (need gigantic heat exchanger if engine is moving)

asciilifeform: mainly because they're no good for vehicles

asciilifeform: but it remains a 'crackpot field' for some reason.

asciilifeform: e.g. liquid pistons

asciilifeform: there are ways to make substantially cheaper stirling engine

asciilifeform: aha.

asciilifeform: the20year: a few mW

asciilifeform: some have... interesting... shapes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:BetaStirlingTG4web.svg

asciilifeform: there's a traditional schoolboy version made from aluminum can, that will run off body heat.

asciilifeform: it doesn't get any simpler than a stirling engine.

asciilifeform: you could run a computer on anything that combusts.

asciilifeform: i'm rather surprised those 'laptop-sized' stirling engines never caught on

asciilifeform: (afaik this doesn't actually exist)

asciilifeform: always wanted one of those

asciilifeform: maybe laptop-sized gensets

asciilifeform: nubbins`: some have generators that run on it

asciilifeform: real mindfuck

asciilifeform: i overheard my neighbours talking about dumping their savings into AM some time ago

asciilifeform: these folks are harvesting the 'ground floor' people rather well

asciilifeform: nubbins`: interesting

asciilifeform: anyone notice 'blockchain.info' denominated in usd now?

asciilifeform: that'd be 'intangible asset,' no?

asciilifeform: plambert: how would you value 'getting the damned assembly going 3 days sooner' ?

asciilifeform: in other news, dell corp. joins the denial chorus: http://en.community.dell.com/dell-blogs/direct2dell/b/direct2dell/archive/2013/12/30/comment-on-der-spiegel-article-regarding-nsa-tao-organization.aspx

asciilifeform: i'd love to see the perl script this came out of!

asciilifeform: no phalse phlag is complete without one of these!

asciilifeform: http://cryptome.org/2014/01/parastoo-pge-metcalf.htm

asciilifeform: this is why i don't really have any ill-will for crapware artists. they should be seen as educators.

asciilifeform: kakobrekla: 'if (total < 1.0) exit(0)'

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: point

asciilifeform: people using winblows and btc together should also smoke at petrol pumps

asciilifeform: take it with a grain of whatever.

asciilifeform: not naming names.

asciilifeform: there are tor exits silently pumping ascii through 'sed' or the like, slipping 'friendly' btc addrs in place of originals. ☟︎

asciilifeform: i'll break out some evil rumor right here now:

asciilifeform: not counting der fuhrer's miners?

asciilifeform: traditional belief seems to be that 'they lost their hdd'

asciilifeform: testingUnoDosTre: there was a rumory mubling that a few 100K of circa-2010 (?) coins moved, but no one linked to hard data.

asciilifeform: no need to fuck it all up, any more than one nuke needs to demolish a whole planet to be worth setting off...

asciilifeform: right

asciilifeform: gotta bomb the market, induce oscillatory panics, other fun.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: lame bots that merely lift wallets don't count

asciilifeform: (re: 'zerogox')

asciilifeform: big fat prize (from the god of war, not from yours truly) to the first fellow who gets idiots to run a trojaned trading bot.

asciilifeform: http://www.centennialbulb.org/photos.htm#anchor1234

asciilifeform: mike_c: all you need to rent for 700 is 700x1 or 2 (security deposit)

asciilifeform: mike_c: where's the surprise? slaves get their food cheaper (free!) than free men

asciilifeform: http://complex.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/12/24/power-station-military-assault

asciilifeform: re: ltc/asics: 'you can run but you can't hide.'

asciilifeform: juicy meat in the sun. flies arrive eventually. end of story...

asciilifeform: these people barely have enough brains to use fiat...

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: next maybe you will suggest bitcoin as a way to pay beggars?

asciilifeform: interestingly, xilinx and other vendors used to publish their internals, but that stopped in the mid-90s when they moved to a 'rent our code' business model

asciilifeform: likewise, and even more elementary: can't make a self-reconfiguring xilinx (or other fpga based) system without x86/unix in the loop unless you can ditch the vendor's toolchain

asciilifeform: benkay: can't make a self-reconfiguring Xilinx without knowing the exact bitstream format and internal layout.

asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu sure, works for me.

asciilifeform: 'mr. hui is hereby granted the crown concession of fleecing american pigs.'

asciilifeform: 'crown privilege'

asciilifeform: well, in prc they have the 3rd kind of rich: not inherited, but not really built with his own hands

asciilifeform: had a built-in ppp dialer, too.

asciilifeform: good old arachne.

asciilifeform: water damage can do very interesting things to electronics, not necessarily total death

asciilifeform: at night, we removed one fellow's expensive 'radeon' and slid that one in.

asciilifeform: my fave gpu story: in '02, living in a uni dorm, ruptured coolant hose, ended with gpu that gives 'snow' in the picture, a la CGA card

asciilifeform: fat hedgehogs on them, though

asciilifeform: still '92 around here, i buy fanless cards only.

asciilifeform: the most surprising find was that the chip maker clearly specified heat sinking, and there was none.

asciilifeform: mike_c: it was scorched a bit in the fireball, but the traces remained.

asciilifeform: for electronics junkies - chronicle of the motor controller affair: http://www.loper-os.org/?p=1401

asciilifeform: it is important to understand that once an enemy captures a cardano and lifts the private key, he can sign whatever he pleases.

asciilifeform: likewise, enemy will use the unattended cardano to sign the diddled tars.

asciilifeform: this is usually trivial.

asciilifeform: then enemy will read the machine's memory and walk off with secret.

asciilifeform: but it is unwise to keep cardano in an unmanned facility.

asciilifeform: sure, you can sign a tarball

asciilifeform: because 1) it is cost-prohibitive, and more importatly, 2) flies in the face of auditability

asciilifeform: most importantly, it is not designed to resist physical dissection.

asciilifeform: the reason i'm piping up, is that i don't want any misconceptions floating about regarding what C is for.

asciilifeform: i'm still not sure how it adds anything here

asciilifeform: my understanding is that: in this case you would be using cardano merely as a disk?

asciilifeform: what i'm unclear on is: what is being protected?

asciilifeform: likewise, if cardano is left unattended in a cage, enemy can walk off with it.

asciilifeform: he lifts the payload (script) out, does what he likes

asciilifeform: say enemy has control of server.

asciilifeform: cardano key?

asciilifeform: benkay: i think i'm missing something here

asciilifeform: benkay: if you're still there - care to say more?

asciilifeform: picture suing kgb in a soviet court.

asciilifeform: who, exactly, imagined that this would go differently?

asciilifeform: got one somewhere...

asciilifeform: intel 286?

asciilifeform: still appears to... resist. to spec

asciilifeform: it got caught in the fireball.

asciilifeform: well, i haven't applied power yet...

asciilifeform: i just like it as a photo 'pastebin' that isn't encrusted with turds

asciilifeform: (would have to be a chump to belive this, of course)

asciilifeform: viewer can do whatever, the notion is that the server doesn't keep photos

asciilifeform: last one melted.

asciilifeform: little bugger was a stepper driver for x-axis rail

asciilifeform: i like to imagine that 'unsee' photos scroll across a giant tv at nsa (honeypot!)