asciilifeform: monocle displays are terrible.

asciilifeform: i suppose if you want your shirts washed in molten sodium, you'll have to go elsewhere.

asciilifeform: dry clean shop on my street has a sign, no joke: 'we use /only/ organic solvents!'

asciilifeform: or was this about the other sense of 'organic'

asciilifeform: synthetic, but still organic

asciilifeform: some equivalent for silicon-based alien life?

asciilifeform: wtf is inorganic capsaicin?

asciilifeform: what's the state of the art? 20% failure?

asciilifeform: launch satellites. doesn't get much more risky than that.

asciilifeform: 'aha, you bought 100btc. where is it now? we have this here soldering iron, and you have an arse...'

asciilifeform: why do you suppose the 'legit' exchanges want your government id? precisely to simplify confiscation.

asciilifeform: if the answer is yes, consider it to already belong to the enemy.

asciilifeform: simple test of your security arrangements. if your PC were to fall into enemy hands, would he know how much BTC you have? (or where.)

asciilifeform: 'the miser pays twice.' using cheapo hardware has a cost. eventually people will pay the cost.

asciilifeform: there's plenty of gamma to go around. and ECC RAM has gone out of fashion.

asciilifeform: will to live?

asciilifeform: wonder if you'll run out of disk or cpu first.

asciilifeform: that others, generating addrs in the past, may have used...

asciilifeform: in fact, bonus points if you use a known turd for an entropy source

asciilifeform: large - but finite.

asciilifeform: then countdown until fools start pushing 'dust miner bonds', l33t, 11111....

asciilifeform: helps if you have a reasonable entropy source, but not essential for this application.

asciilifeform: run blockchain; generate as many random addrs as will fit on disk...

asciilifeform: 'dust telescope.'

asciilifeform: anybody feeling particularly energetic is invited to carry out an experiment:

asciilifeform: 4) change keys sometimes.

asciilifeform: moral: 1) single-tasking machine 2) performing crypto-ops when you want, and not when internet asks 1000x/sec.; 3) battery belongs to you and physically visible

asciilifeform: if the probability of a 'cough' is sufficiently large, any system that can be 'milked' for RSA exchanges is vulnerable.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: this is by no means particular to SPARC

asciilifeform: suddenly 'p' (or 'q') is composite.

asciilifeform: consider the trivial case of RSA with lowest bit in 'p' or 'q' (pubkey = PxQ) flipped.

asciilifeform: phun phact: most public key cryptosystems cough up key bits in this scenario.

asciilifeform: as seen here: http://dinaburg.org/bitsquatting.html

asciilifeform: dust TX, if they exist, could be interesting. bit flips from cosmic rays?

asciilifeform: man jumps in front of moving bus. considers legal action against bus.

asciilifeform: the sane people version: 'built a skyscraper. here's what it'll cost ya per sq. m. come in?'

asciilifeform: maybe i'm just behind the times. but, picture some bozo: 'i'ma build a skyscraper. here's lots of pictures of my bulldozers, cranes! here's some cement mixers!'

asciilifeform: what part of this couldn't have been filmed by a bored sysop anywhere on the planet?

asciilifeform: sovcoin.

asciilifeform: herr jobs

asciilifeform: 2

asciilifeform: who said?

asciilifeform: "We shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing, by growing these parts separately under a suitable medium."

asciilifeform: nobody's a zero, everyone a hero there.

asciilifeform: the fellows who stuffed their gloves with detcord and blew, well, you don't need hands to tramp the dirt

asciilifeform: nobody is worth zero, in the uranium mines of vorkuta.

asciilifeform: well in 'democracy' a polizei will bite you on the arse if you employ the unskilled fellow for the wage he's worth.

asciilifeform: why ignore when you can laugh.

asciilifeform: seems like it was invented for such occasions.

asciilifeform: prescribe: seppuku?

asciilifeform: Vexual: and some taggants, likely, for 'smartasses'

asciilifeform: Vexual: this was widely believed, because they don't teach newton's 3rd law any more...

asciilifeform: a modern Diogenes will die comically, 'ipad' crate falling on his head instead of turtle.

asciilifeform: in the unlikely event of the 'legit' vendors using choppers, they'll go for enclosed airscrews. 'ufo' shape.

asciilifeform: 'here comes the candle, to light you to bed. here comes the chopper, to chop off your head.'

asciilifeform: everybody who builds toy choppers has the characteristic scars.

asciilifeform: diametric: it will be done. by people who don't care for legalities.

asciilifeform: like most SR cargo.

asciilifeform: (for product delivery, of things that don't mind being thrown)

asciilifeform: btw, at the current max range of toy drone, one could achieve very similar results with: catapult.

asciilifeform: trotsky!

asciilifeform: nope.

asciilifeform: Vexual: 'you may not be interested in war, but war is quite interested in you.'

asciilifeform: asymmetric: 'we are rich, they - poor, they oughta roll over and die fair and square.'

asciilifeform: naturally

asciilifeform: but rather, anyone who can out-think the idiots.

asciilifeform: when the bureaucrats say 'asymmetric war' and piss their pants, they aren't specifically thinking of bedouins with ak

asciilifeform: solve the general case.

asciilifeform: rf is a more interesting countermeasure than pyrotechnics, because enemy machines can travel by land, sea, hell, sewer line, and not only by air.

asciilifeform: a different machine is called for, and will appear.

asciilifeform: to expect that it will be sent to do some other job is odd.

asciilifeform: usg drone is built for specific work: plug unarmed man, in open field, by surprise.

asciilifeform: before you know it, we're back to 1930s state of the art: barrage balloon.

asciilifeform: Vexual: sat uplink

asciilifeform: (suggested experiment: two tennis balls, fishing line, an old-style uncaged metal fan, an open field.)

asciilifeform: fishing line may even work, considering what will happen when the rotor winds it up.

asciilifeform: for choppers, fly two toys, trailing piano wire between.

asciilifeform: no magnets for Al. nail gun.

asciilifeform: dub: for rotating wing, payload is: piano wire.

asciilifeform: flight plan, from the moment of limpeting, should be 'vertical.'

asciilifeform: need an uncommonly solid grip, for a drogue chute.

asciilifeform: for the spark gap...

asciilifeform: one fun possibility: toy turns its rotors 90 deg., they turn into... windmill generators.

asciilifeform: dub: the hypothetical was: a toystore chopper limpets on to the larger one. what ought to be in the former.

asciilifeform: dub: the notion of rf-hardening a widget that includes a large antenna is a curious one.

asciilifeform: dub: why perforate enemy, take him home as a pet.

asciilifeform: just needs a little extra sweat.

asciilifeform: Vexual: your local toy store still has them.

asciilifeform: Vexual: that's nearly an adult chopper, not comparable to the miniatures at all.

asciilifeform: i'd like to see what one of these does near... an ordinary spark gap.

asciilifeform: death from the air would be a little scarier if they so much as managed to get gps spoofing off the table.

asciilifeform: scale?

asciilifeform: now try 1000 places...

asciilifeform: be in two places.

asciilifeform: in the immortal words of an airplane designer: what can two machines do that no one, no matter how costly, cannot?

asciilifeform: no defenses, to speak of, no maneuvering ability.

asciilifeform: the famous (u.s.) drones are very much tooled for unarmed targets that can't afford so much as a binocular.

asciilifeform: magnet, thermite.

asciilifeform: no need for bullet

asciilifeform: the pill for usg drones: sail right into the tailpipe.