asciilifeform: another guy, Nosenko, defected soon after, and told CIA that G was full of shit

asciilifeform: he whispered in angleton's ear, and to anyone else who'd listen, that the collapse was a sham.

asciilifeform: that it's sitting and waiting somewhere.

asciilifeform: and he believed (and, afaik, still does, seems to be alive) that the ussr faked its death.

asciilifeform: he escaped from ussr and became chums with the famous james jesus angleton.

asciilifeform: anyone knows the story of a man called Anatoliy Golitsyn? ☟︎

asciilifeform: that or, sits! waiting!

asciilifeform: only in imagination.

asciilifeform: haha

asciilifeform: in other news, http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/china-successfully-completes-first-soft-landing-on-moon-in-37-years/2013/12/14/fad6ffb4-64c6-11e3-af0d-4bb80d704888_story.html?tid=pm_world_pop

asciilifeform: wtf is with 'virtex' anyway. every time i think 'xilinx'. what's next? btc product called 'coca cola' ?

asciilifeform: i'll give it a shot.

asciilifeform: but he hasn't been answering mail for a while

asciilifeform: perhaps, i'd love to dig him up & ask him

asciilifeform: 25 bux in '98.

asciilifeform: his 'deluxe package.'

asciilifeform: got old mr. schwartz complete on 4 floppies.

asciilifeform: i.e. all the features.

asciilifeform: al used english language the way some maniacs use perl

asciilifeform: al, like me, once lived under the damocle's sword of regulations on what you can do to... mice.

asciilifeform: this existed!

asciilifeform: (obligatory ref: http://mazepath.com/uncleal/herpol.htm)

asciilifeform: would she 'rolls without slipping on the herpolhode' ?

asciilifeform: if one wishes to gamble, there's always daytrade

asciilifeform: i still think the phootoore of btc games is battles of wits, not luck

asciilifeform: (it was his only claim to glory; he was a truck driver at the time.)

asciilifeform: my partner at one of the places i wurk was hired because he found a remote 0day for... warcraft 2.

asciilifeform: but i was young once

asciilifeform: thestringpuller: ~30

asciilifeform: hell, wc2 (!) is still played in russia.

asciilifeform: most likely spot.

asciilifeform: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahya_Ayyash

asciilifeform: (the one they slip to people who are to part with their heads.)

asciilifeform: consider the famous israeli cell phone battery.

asciilifeform: in all seriousness, i won't be surprised if folks start x-raying batteries before this is over.

asciilifeform: gotta ask mein fuhrer for more.

asciilifeform: sadly, i'm all out.

asciilifeform: jurov: feel free to install one!

asciilifeform: why? 'exercise for the alert reader.'

asciilifeform: since you folks love hints and tidbits: the rng operates exclusively off the battery.

asciilifeform: (the latter: included.)

asciilifeform: and a CR2450 battery.

asciilifeform: in all seriousness, all you need to use cardano is some machine which can read/write usb mass storage.

asciilifeform: would be tricky to sell any were it dead...

asciilifeform: haha

asciilifeform: dead?

asciilifeform: mp is the marketing sorcerer, send all related questions/ideas his way.

asciilifeform: but such is life.

asciilifeform: the final result will likely strike people as 'obvious' and 'wtf did he do for this long.'

asciilifeform: with actual experiments in subversion; a kind of 'chess against yourself.'

asciilifeform: mostly investigations into 'what not to do.'

asciilifeform: see, building a quality 'security product' (that rare bird!) involves quite a bit of work that never shows up in the finished piece.

asciilifeform: don't get me wrong, I'm glad somebody wants to buy these things

asciilifeform: why so impatient.

asciilifeform: that's all I'll say on the subject

asciilifeform: depends largely on the factory.

asciilifeform: might be sold separately at some point; ask mp if you're impatient.

asciilifeform: not standalone in the sense of a separate product, though

asciilifeform: it's a separate board, yes

asciilifeform: benkay: rng done.

asciilifeform: high-quality flamefest: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/urbit-dev/PvXo1t7uNrY/RL7DLpg1v9QJ

asciilifeform: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gogulski

asciilifeform: one of you folks is in slovakia? mebbe say hello to him for me.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: as you can see, he did.

asciilifeform: the fellow who bought my 'dukedom': http://www.nostate.com/1364/certificate-of-loss-of-nationality-canceled-us-passport/

asciilifeform: twist!

asciilifeform: not my problem any more! now some other fellow will have to horsewhip peasants, hang thieves, test virginity, in that dukedom.

asciilifeform: the 'dukedom' / KYC thread: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/urbit-dev/PvXo1t7uNrY/ik5e-9b-cNwJ

asciilifeform: (same applies to 'dumb' phone)

asciilifeform: and if you carry it on the street, or in a car, treat it as a public announcement, brass band playing, of your goings.

asciilifeform: then it's quite harmless.

asciilifeform: don't load it with secrets, assume that all input devices (camera, microphone) are logged.

asciilifeform: if you buy one, treat it the way you'd treat an ms-winblows box kept around for games.

asciilifeform: shelf life is ~2 yr, useful life: ~5 deep cycles.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: you'd buy lead-acid battery in a pawn shop?

asciilifeform: turned out, the seller was in a van, sending me mail...

asciilifeform: i once tried to buy some ups batteries on 'craigslist', then stood about in a parking lot for an hour

asciilifeform: can't even buy a piece of junk without a smartpnohe.

asciilifeform: it isn't really negotiable.

asciilifeform: if you're trying to putter about in the u.s. business world, you pretty much have to be able to receive email in the car, train...

asciilifeform: browser, mail, etc.

asciilifeform: want a browser in yer pocket? take your pick, aipnohe or pwndroid

asciilifeform: not everyone has the luxury of eschewing cell phone.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: it isn't like there is an S.NSA phone he could buy instead.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: why is that part interesting?

asciilifeform: waiting for mr. m to write an alpha version of his thing.

asciilifeform: and then puttered around on a mailing list for a while

asciilifeform: something like 20 people (forget exact #) solved.

asciilifeform: i did it with pencil, but wrote a compiler of the language to test: http://www.loper-os.org/?p=103

asciilifeform: puzzle was: 'write a subtraction routine' in Nock.

asciilifeform: TomServo: http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2010/01/maxwells-equations-of-software.html

asciilifeform: and also https://groups.google.com/d/msg/urbit-dev/4B12WpF1rL0/hYF3YPuqvR8J (rest of thread)

asciilifeform: see also: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/urbit-dev/utp3H7F78so/Dt24fpiT3xcJ

asciilifeform: as far as i'm concerned, they blew it when they went with 'userspace process on top of unix' when designing 'ab initio computer'.

asciilifeform: which is odd, given his background.

asciilifeform: but i don't think he had caught the pgp train yet, back then.

asciilifeform: that one day they will Take Over the World (TM)

asciilifeform: if you read his original proposals, he regards the dukedoms as an almost literal thing

asciilifeform: sumthinglikethat

asciilifeform: and he put me on the urbit-dukes mailing list back in '10.