262900+ entries in 0.067s
mircea_popescu: obviously, honest man would be in wot rather than sitting at the fringe arguing about how him being in the thief seats is wholly immaterial, he's just there for the view, comfort and etc.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform sure. which is why it's so difficult to discern.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo they can put people away without even saying what for huh.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform (incidentally, coppersmith didn't think much of the xsl thing)
mircea_popescu: they're just numbers, like any other numbers, exactly so.
mircea_popescu: but the principle remains. "small integers" are not in fact either small or integers but for our perspective.
mircea_popescu: anyway, birdy whispers in my ear guy's from group that came up with the original xls aes attack. definitely more standing than tim swanson or w/e.
mircea_popescu: i wonder, if i say Dr. Nicolas T. Courtois will this then be the first hit on his name tomorrow or something ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform still, i can see the argument that "7" is not safe just for being you know, the number of holes on your body.
mircea_popescu: srsly, he keeps linking to reddit thinking/pretending to think he's engaging bitcoin thereby.
mircea_popescu: but they're so fucking derpy they're not helping me, as itemized above.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform atm im trying to discern whether the recent "secp256k1" talk is simply the defeated nsa trying to find a better reason to fork bitcoin, or these derps actualy have something.
mircea_popescu: i get it, he's a "google scholar" and he has patents. whopee.
mircea_popescu: how the fuck do these people expect to survive, seriously ?
mircea_popescu: h), but which does not include his email, or his pgp key.
mircea_popescu: so the guy that wrote that otherwise interesting post : 1) aslo wrote
http://blog.bettercrypto.com/?p=640 , a complete misrepresentation of the tim swhatever incident ; 2) runs a blog where you need cookies/js to leave him a comment pointing out that no, he's not extempt from the common requirements of "know what you're talking about before you posture" ; 3) has a contact page where i could donate btc to him (or ltc he
mircea_popescu: Please be sure JavaScript and Cookies are enabled in your browser."
mircea_popescu: "ERROR: JavaScript and Cookies are required in order to post a comment.
mircea_popescu: "unanimous allergic reactions when serious security questions are raised by uninvited academics"
mircea_popescu: punkman: yeah and maybe indian/chinese guy watered field with sewage << actually good for it.
mircea_popescu: punkman: 10 GBP for truck mail? that's highway robbery <<< no, it's... AIRWAY ROBBERY
mircea_popescu: Namworld send me teh fb data if it's done (seems to be ?)
mircea_popescu: cast a wide net of tormentors looking for a handout, watch em squirm basically.
mircea_popescu: understand old man psychology : the whole world is made out of younger men
mircea_popescu: admittedly, the traditional behaviour of intellectual types.
mircea_popescu: he didn't seem to want to personally do anything past telling the others what they should be doing
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> and his (alleged) plan to buy back 'respectability' with money is uncharacteristically foolish << i didn't read any such plan in there. just, "i want money" "what for ?" "fuck you lol:
mircea_popescu: <decimation> eh? weren't nearly all the 'returning jews' from german backgrounds? << yep.
mircea_popescu: anyway, quick quiz : who is the first person to have spoken german in public in israel post ww2 ?
mircea_popescu: decimation afaik about 40% of the us is actually from germany at some point
mircea_popescu: jurov's from slovakia, that's like 1/2 german, and kako's somalia is an ex german colony. so like 1/6
mircea_popescu: but the respective cultures actually accessible and tied in.
mircea_popescu: it just occured to me that b-a is actually the only place on the english web where german, russian,french, spanish etc are not merely spoken,
mircea_popescu: you know, lightbulbs going out, visibly. because back then ? they did.
mircea_popescu: whoever did the decors put a shitton of intelligent work in
mircea_popescu: if you're curious to get a feel for the actual flavour of everyday bvack then, it's a good primer.
mircea_popescu: they run it because they're not smart enough to even figure there's away out of the paper bag, as a principle.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> decimation: why would iranian ministry of nukes run winblows <<< recall that buenos aires pantalla ?
mircea_popescu: those shitty plastics of the era... not really very mouldable...
mircea_popescu: you can't argue with that part. they got really good at printing them.
mircea_popescu: i thought you were kinda arguing both ends of a candle here :p
mircea_popescu: my own personal opinion is you're taking that too far. srsly, current cpus are worth 80 2014 dollars
mircea_popescu: just, they found ways to repackage cheaper shit as food.