asciilifeform: and where smart people sabotaged infrastructure from mere boredom.

asciilifeform: pay. story was about a world crammed brimful of humans, mostly unworthy of even a public execution.

asciilifeform: 'attention whores' lined up.

asciilifeform: where you could pay to be publicly guillotined, burned at the stake, etc.

asciilifeform: my favourite fictional scenario of 'official suicide' is in brunner's 'stand on zanzibar'

asciilifeform: tv cameras on the wall.

asciilifeform: or simply build separate stations where jumping is officially permitted. hose them down daily.

asciilifeform: is 'casascius' an organ of 'the foundation'? if not, why does every media turd about bitcoin feature a photo of the coins?

asciilifeform: what's special about pits

asciilifeform: metro in many places rolls in recessed pits on stations

asciilifeform: afaik, this is less - but still quite - true for traffic death

asciilifeform: mike_c: esp. if you subtract the folks who were trying to get run over

asciilifeform: 'if you see a man drowning, and there you are, with a camera, what shutter and aperture settings will you use?'

asciilifeform: it is still interesting that most cities have no ready means of going from 'crowd sees a human in the pit' to 'trains stop'

asciilifeform: naturally.

asciilifeform: ThickAsThieves: ever actually been to a subway station? there's probably a man's weight of dead vermin, garbage, etc. per square meter.

asciilifeform: 'who do you sue when your parachute doesn't open'

asciilifeform: what if he broke his neck falling? tough luck

asciilifeform: twist'n'press knob, same kind found on industrial tools

asciilifeform: no, the victim pushes.

asciilifeform: why no one simply puts fire alarm-style switches on the track bed wall, is beyond me.

asciilifeform: afaik in some countries they have expensive retractable cages between the tracks and the waiting area

asciilifeform: hell, put then on the track bed.

asciilifeform: ThickAsThieves: yeah, why bother with cheap and effective solution costing pennies (big red 'stop' buttons on walls, guaranteed jail for false alarms)

asciilifeform: perhaps a miniature induction heater.

asciilifeform: someone could make good money selling a means of melting a glass rod over a (recessed) screw head and then breaking it.

asciilifeform: i believe the ancient greeks used something similar, with a broken clay pot ☟︎

asciilifeform: two spies meet, and match up the pieces

asciilifeform: recall the rifle shell sawed in half from ww2 partizan movies

asciilifeform: more productive line of inquiry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_unclonable_function

asciilifeform: (short version: seals that one buys from somewhere are of strictly ceremonial value.)

asciilifeform: R. Anderson. 'Security Engineering', 2nd ed; ch. 14: 'security printing and seals.'

asciilifeform: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/SEv2-c14.pdf

asciilifeform: actually, that's the wrong link

asciilifeform: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/SE-14.pdf

asciilifeform: required reading for 'seal' aficionados:

asciilifeform: no peculiar hardware needed.

asciilifeform: you can also bury a vacuum-sealed sheet of paper.

asciilifeform: same effect.

asciilifeform: why not put some 'scotch' tape over it.

asciilifeform: all quite identical.

asciilifeform: from a warehouse with 10,000 of them.

asciilifeform: a hologram that you buy, right.

asciilifeform: thestringpuller: holograms? i thought most 'paper wallets' are simply strips of paper crammed into 'arse safes'

asciilifeform: holograms aren't magic, people

asciilifeform: casascius just begs to be pwned

asciilifeform: anybody here get hold of a 'trezor' and pick it apart?

asciilifeform: at least with pc you can get pwned for free.

asciilifeform: why would anyone buy a cat-in-a-sack wallet machine ?

asciilifeform: !

asciilifeform: presumably this includes the signature nonces?

asciilifeform: 'Now the Trezor is fully deterministic device...'

asciilifeform: woah

asciilifeform: but these will be readable to the attached machine.

asciilifeform: with keys, or lolcats, whatever.

asciilifeform: though i suppose you could write arbitrary files to the slate.

asciilifeform: very specific purpose.

asciilifeform: not any. cardano's.

asciilifeform: for anyone who doesn't know, cardano is not a wallet.

asciilifeform: but the stats suggest it.

asciilifeform: thestringpuller: we don't know this as an established fact

asciilifeform: compare with gold standard: geiger counter. http://www.fourmilab.ch/hotbits/statistical_testing/stattest.html

asciilifeform: try it yourself.

asciilifeform: (or even straight PRNG.)

asciilifeform: the leper's bell rings. you can only get results like this if you whiten with PRNG.

asciilifeform: https://github.com/trezor/rng-test/blob/master/dev_random_1.dieharder

asciilifeform: *copenhagen

asciilifeform: then the 'copehagen' QM people finally succeed in resurrecting Vitalism and making the crock of shit mandatory for physics students!

asciilifeform: or about the same time

asciilifeform: and before 'n-ray', we had http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirlian_photography

asciilifeform: this crap never dies: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-rays

asciilifeform: i kept waiting and waiting for the modern internet crackpot community to pick up 'scalar waves!' and 'torsional waves' crap from the '90s

asciilifeform: "For the love of God, Montrezor!"

asciilifeform: who suspected!

asciilifeform: https://github.com/trezor/rng-test

asciilifeform: phun phact: 'trezor' machine uses vendor's on-chip TRNG.

asciilifeform: but it was hyped as 'cpu of the phootoor!' in the '90s.

asciilifeform: spin valve exists, used in your disk read head.

asciilifeform: (who wants to build an electron spin-valve machine? don't forget to market it as 'derp.')

asciilifeform: derp-powered machinery is mighty indeed.

asciilifeform: some costing just a dollar or two. but they won't make you rich.

asciilifeform: (search 'digikey' or your favourite local equivalent for crypto accelerators, you'll find plenty)

asciilifeform: just not particularly quickly.

asciilifeform: many consumer widgets do indeed come with silicon that computes sha hash

asciilifeform: the 'mobile phone miner' thing (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=358242.0) is based on an easy mistake

asciilifeform: anybody notice how quickly the discussion of 'where the hell do you get entropy on a VPS' began and ended?

asciilifeform: 'This week a cluster of VPS that i have been using... ...has been compromised.'

asciilifeform: history, rather than fantastics.

asciilifeform: in the '90s ussr, it transitioned from paper to 'other.'

asciilifeform: Bugpowder: reality is sometimes made of paper, sometimes of other materials

asciilifeform: at some point it will be cheaper to pay a paramilitary squad to defend you than to pay the paper 'owner.'

asciilifeform: think from a different angle:

asciilifeform: when the mechanisms used to keep the tens of 1000s of empty foreclosed boxes empty collapse.

asciilifeform: know what'll put a real damper on 'housing bubble' ?

asciilifeform: they come with convenient logic-level inputs for steering.

asciilifeform: use a consumer 'security camera' xyz gimball for the turret.

asciilifeform: 'don't click until you see the whites of their eyes.'

asciilifeform: for short range, sure

asciilifeform: the ones which highlight faces.

asciilifeform: no need for fancy and new maths, a consumer digital camera chipset would probably suffice.