asciilifeform: nobody found anything

asciilifeform: lab girl had round-the-clock headaches for six months. went to every conceivable doctor, brain scans, the whole shebang. ☟︎

asciilifeform: we had a beautifully-educational incident with DMSO ☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎

asciilifeform: had it in my lab, does exactly as described

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: speaking of chemical oddities, DMSO was the correct answer.

asciilifeform: i asked a colleague recently, 'doesn't every boy dream of running his own kgb' and he looked at me 'funny.'

asciilifeform: http://highpowerrocketry.blogspot.com/2010/09/magic-bullets-and-other-cia-inventions.html

asciilifeform: the cia described in the well-known 'mr. death' must have been a beautiful place to work.

asciilifeform: Vexual: yours?

asciilifeform: in a bunker.

asciilifeform: i just like to imagine that the 1950s cia lives on, somewhere

asciilifeform: probably right.

asciilifeform: normally when you get millions of idiots happily jumping, rather than the odd one or two, somebody's built a convenient ramp.

asciilifeform: venezuela == cia project, public service reminder that communism -> no plasma tvs. you read it here 1st...

asciilifeform: there we go.

asciilifeform: 'basic code' -> 'coca bides'.

asciilifeform: etc

asciilifeform: "C-plus-plus code" <-> "C does cull pups"

asciilifeform: "Haskell code" <-> "sad coke hell"

asciilifeform: http://wry.me/~darius/writings/language-ranking.html

asciilifeform: nubbins`: took russel&whitehead a meter of bookcase to prove.

asciilifeform: old hardware can be a joy; learn 68k asm, write something nice & clean. but python?

asciilifeform: to develop the virtue of... patience?

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: why?

asciilifeform: (cardano is perfectly happy with no FPU.)

asciilifeform: some maths, somewhere, but not gpg (or rsa in general)

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: you don't need FP for gpg.

asciilifeform: (until fairly recently, and we all know the story there)

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: random bits aren't hard to come by, but consumer hardware never included a ready means for doing so

asciilifeform: none of this helps unless the system is actually programmed to gather entropy from said manipulations.

asciilifeform: entropy generation is the inevitable bottleneck here.

asciilifeform: dollars to doughnuts, it's blocking on entropy milking

asciilifeform: run strace on the process, if it is blocked, and see where.

asciilifeform: what's the os on that box?

asciilifeform: chances are, it's waiting for keystroke entropy.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: slow?

asciilifeform: http://www.thoughtcrime.org/blog/lavabit-critique/

asciilifeform: pankkake: for vertical resolution, nothing beats 90 degree rotation.

asciilifeform: or possibly they just rebranded and this is still it.

asciilifeform: those tend to die mysterious deaths

asciilifeform: it was a paulgrahamoid

asciilifeform: there was an earlier vendor that made these. intended for factory floor overseers. those had aim-able laser pointers.

asciilifeform: the old 'shibboleth' method...

asciilifeform: a decentralized SR would live still. etc

asciilifeform: in a sufficiently-hostile environment, full decentralization (of mechanical function, if not necessarily administration) is the only answer.

asciilifeform: pankkake: review was based primarily on the free demo, and the correspondence which led up to the latter.

asciilifeform: carried on a correspondence of sort with mp since writing a piece on his creation (http://www.loper-os.org/?p=1108)

asciilifeform: in fact, full disclosure time! i'm not a 'serious btc persona (TM)', just an amateur maths type. ~3btc to my name.

asciilifeform: i must remind you, i am not an expert on the mechanics of mpex/mpoe. by all means, ask the author.

asciilifeform: if i'm not mistaken, the s.nsa listing text is based on that of s.mg (and to a lesser extent, others)

asciilifeform: you should probably ask mp to be sure.

asciilifeform: so, the way i understand, any new shares are automatically priced at a moving average of a long period preceding the issue.

asciilifeform: benkay: read the listing (written by mp, not me); there is a promise not to dilute

asciilifeform: pankkake: no idea. ask mp when he wakes up.

asciilifeform: yeah

asciilifeform: they throw in pretty much anything that smells of nsa dirt.

asciilifeform: cryptome's a classic

asciilifeform: sits next to microshit's fax.

asciilifeform: pankkake: decoy. the real 'intel cpu vulnerability facility' is: a fax machine at ft. meade, where intel sends them the dirt directly, for free.

asciilifeform: why not 'skyscraper height'? 'megatonnage of nuke you have the codes for'? etc

asciilifeform: maybe only to favoured guests.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: pretty sure the eskimos did offer 'parking space' to guests.

asciilifeform: who doesn't love the old stories about europeans getting clubbed by eskimos for refusing the offer of shared wife.

asciilifeform: ethiopia?

asciilifeform: previous link: psyops folks getting desperate, trying to salvage Schneier by ham-handedly pissing on him in public

asciilifeform: in yet other news, public hatchet job (likely to make Schneier look credible) - http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-1056819/

asciilifeform: in other news, http://www.openssh.com/txt/gcmrekey.adv

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: re: the purpose of macros: http://www.loper-os.org/?p=401

asciilifeform: (shorter yet - 'can't mold a bullet from shit. even if you put rocket fins on the turd.')

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: if you'd like to know why not, here's the short version - http://www.loper-os.org/?p=55

asciilifeform: they also make... pillows.

asciilifeform: which is large enough to sustain the whole business

asciilifeform: they market to the 'tinfoil' crowd

asciilifeform: phun phact: afaik there's exactly one manufacturer of silver fiber cloth

asciilifeform: usually people use a foil bag.

asciilifeform: that'd be the 'luxury model'

asciilifeform: right

asciilifeform: only problem, your key won't fit in the ram.

asciilifeform: classic palm pilot makes a fairly good 'airgap box' - no rf-anything, and small enough to be caged with minimal effort.

asciilifeform: (old 'palm pilots')

asciilifeform: the junkyard also works

asciilifeform: about 'fiddybucks'

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: 'freescale semiconductor.

asciilifeform: where the hell is a luser supposed to get 512kb of entropy

asciilifeform: not cpu-wise

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: for the former, sheer weight, likely.

asciilifeform: (it laughs at Shor's algo, for instance.)

asciilifeform: use McEliece if you're fond of mega-keys.

asciilifeform: why else 128kb key

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: let me guess, you patched gpg for straight rsa?

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: 'commodore amiga' ?

asciilifeform: 'gorbama.'

asciilifeform: 'u.s. president' will be about as interesting as 'gensec of kpss' soon enough.

asciilifeform: where is soviet foreign policy.

asciilifeform: (bush II era)

asciilifeform: if i recall, the u.s. statute authorizing military force against icc in the event of the capture of a u.s. war criminal is still on the books.

asciilifeform: sorta like the ant traps.

asciilifeform: if anyone had the least bit of a clue re: how to make it happen, betcha it would.

asciilifeform: time to roll out 'wireheading', perhaps.

asciilifeform: ('available from the Colt Health-Life Insurance and Retirement Savings Company!')