asciilifeform: let's censor the digits of pi, while we're at it.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: same thing that will happen if kermit the frog clamps his teeth around the hand inside his arse and drags it out.
asciilifeform: countdown to when they start fitting employees with Columbian collars...?
asciilifeform: can you say 'front running'? i knew you could!
asciilifeform: once read that louis xvi and marie a. held it in for a week, prior to their magic date.
asciilifeform: this must mean something, culturally.
asciilifeform: i once read that in america, it is customary to plug the butts of condemned criminals. they are denied the traditional gallows privilege of shitting themselves.
asciilifeform: the 'survival' folks aren't all preparing for the same scenario.
asciilifeform: don't be the ham in leningrad. 'need to know' is the useful keyword. your mother (and youtube) don't need to see what caliber you prefer. etc.
asciilifeform: the article is more or less a list of 'don't's.
asciilifeform: "when hunger seizes people, food becomes an obsession, and folks search memories as well as cupboards for relief...'
asciilifeform: "There's a shift in people's thinking as essential items become scarce. They believe that... hoarders created the shortage... if someone can establish such a link between the crisis and you, you have a problem.'☟︎
asciilifeform: and what about macbook with human leather keyboard cover?
asciilifeform: lampshades are conspicuously missing from the catalogue.
asciilifeform: this isn't exactly deep science, really.
asciilifeform: the essential, non-negotiable property of an rng suitable for crypto is that its output must not be readily available to the enemy.☟︎
asciilifeform: in academia, even the RAND Corp. 'One Million Random Numbers' book would usually suffice.
asciilifeform: an rng integrated on chip is suitable for a game machine and little else. and even this given the condition that the game is never to be played on wager.
asciilifeform: and, if desired, source from any old junk pile
asciilifeform: it has to be made of discrete components, that one can reach with a commonplace probe.
asciilifeform: the principal twist here is that it isn't enough to print the design of an RNG
asciilifeform: and much of what's been printed on the subject is garbage.
asciilifeform: RNG isn't exactly an unexplored field, but there are many opportunities for fukuppy.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: wait till we print the full shebang.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: thanks, but early praise. haven't made much sane quite yet. mebbe driven a few people insane though. perhaps that counts for something.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: to see 'how the sausage is made.'
asciilifeform: here's an idea: humiliation market. anyone who gets pie on the face of the victim wins the bounty.
asciilifeform: you'll find it referring to perfectly ordinary things (microscopic mirrors in everybody's movie projector) to total crackpottery (robotic maxwell's daemons, etc.)
