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mircea_popescu: and they have a poll about "what" pre-decided words to ban ?
mircea_popescu: wait. so they banned words from the poll to ban words ?
mircea_popescu: so romanian presidential elections were 30%-40% first round, then 54% - 45% 2nd round. then they made a poll to see who people voted with, and 66% claim to have voted wioth the winner. that's 12% more than actually did. what fraction of that is people lying, and what fraction is votes stolen ?
mircea_popescu: it's like reading the fucking scinteia over here. "elena ceausescu has visited the highschool #85, gave dispositions"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform btw, because i remembered doing the research for my latest : speaking of the "how about you stop sending niggers" thing - the romanian secret service arrested a few dozen men mid december 1989 who were travelling to timisoara by themselves. no women, no children, "vacation". they had all heard that this was the oldest town in europe with electric illumination.
mircea_popescu: so what, someone supposedly used yahoo messenger on linux ? via what,s omething like an emulator ? and then the infector survived this mauling ?
mircea_popescu: "The infection vector varies among targets and no reproducible vector had been found at the time of writing. Symantec believes that some targets may be tricked into visiting spoofed versions of well-known websites and the threat may be installed through a Web browser or by exploiting an application. On one computer, log files showed that Regin originated from Yahoo! Instant Messenger through an unconfirmed exploit."
mircea_popescu: jus' trying to help, from my position as chief asshole this is easy.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: jurov: "the nakamoto institute" was working on an archive of the satoshi letters at one point. i don't know if they got anywhere with it. <<< not very far afaik. Pierre_Rochard << why not btw ? put krawsiz to some useful work!
mircea_popescu: jurov: quite a food ofr thought <<< it pains me to say, but it'd seem more food for shit than for thought.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: "Rejection reason: There's no way for a mod to find a suitable replacement for a random chance." << how do you find a "reasonable substitution" for a bet that goes "x website will publish a number ending in 5"
mircea_popescu: on the positive side, the log's back to manageable size.
mircea_popescu: kid wants to matter. kid doesn't have to change for this, kid wants to matter AS HE IS!
mircea_popescu: nah, this is a well known defect of badly made login scripts
mircea_popescu: i was thinking it's funny how you keep popping in and out
mircea_popescu: and as the expression goes, he who illuminates illuminates himself, so, lots of perhaps unknown material about yours truly as well.
mircea_popescu: no, thank you for pasting the actual command, it'd have taken me a while to piece it together lol
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla it's one thing to live in mud, it's another thing to live in excrement.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no, i would just sell all my bitcoins, start a new chain.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla sell out bitcoin, start new implementation.
mircea_popescu: we (tm) don't think so, but we (tm) would very much like this cultish belief verified independently and scientifically.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla well we don't know yet and apparently won't know for a while, rigt ?
mircea_popescu: decimation you sound like an adult man falling in love with a dirty young hussy.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: no that wasnt the question << i guess time will tell no ?
mircea_popescu: Vexual: remember, this lady prolly get free handbags and parties << not in romania, not really. she gets free $5 drinks. which... you know.
mircea_popescu: that most calls cost money, but plenty didn't, so optimized.
mircea_popescu: if the average per-kb page of internet communication were one gallon of gasoline, i wouldn't have to explain to idiots why i don't want to see "webcasts" and why im in irc.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it was five cents a minute yo! at the time a minute meant one page, or a gallon of gasoline.
mircea_popescu: think about that. think about the early days of bbs, which is how routing fucking got invented in the first placer
mircea_popescu: decimation it's not retarded if you think of how fucking cheap it is.
mircea_popescu: 1 is of particular concern, especially because it is so easily disprovable."
mircea_popescu: 2. Stepped in a majority of the holes, landmines and caltrops available.
mircea_popescu: 1. Not produced one single brilliant solution to any actual problem.
mircea_popescu: "I'm not sure this is getting through the fog of their own farts, but the group of power rangers has so far:
mircea_popescu: that they went all "o you dudes are like power rangers"!!!
mircea_popescu: the gushing hordes on reddit were so very impressed with how the idiots in question "fixed" the problem (through leveraging a 50%+1 attack against the blockchain, thourgh meanwhile discredited bircoin mining pools)