asciilifeform: how long's it take to get a new java monkey or what were they.

asciilifeform: how often this happens ?

asciilifeform: phf: iirc mircea_popescu quoted a ro version of this.

asciilifeform: dunno, asciilifeform has pet that creates ~0 work

asciilifeform: phf: these dun look like permafrost wastelands to me..

asciilifeform: what i'd like to know is why there is not a Freezing Man festival in, e.g., alaska.

asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: you missed the ipnoje-is-a-knife thread from a few days ago, didntcha.

asciilifeform: e doesn’t know his own sentence?” “No,” said the Officer once more. He then paused for a moment, as if he was asking the Traveler for a more detailed reason for his question, and said, “It would be useless to give him that information. He experiences it on his own body.”'

asciilifeform: be directing all his energy into listening in order to learn something. But the movements of his thick pouting lips showed clearly that he was incapable of understanding anything. The Traveler wanted to raise various questions, but after looking at the Condemned Man he merely asked, “Does he know his sentence?” “No,” said the Officer. He wished to get on with his explanation right away, but the Traveler interrupted him: “H

asciilifeform: '...he pulled out a small leather folder and said, “Our sentence does not sound severe. The law which a condemned man has violated is inscribed on his body with the harrow. This Condemned Man, for example,” and the Officer pointed to the man, “will have inscribed on his body, ‘Honour your superiors.’” The Traveler had a quick look at the man. When the Officer was pointing at him, the man kept his head down and appeared to

asciilifeform: '...“countless” law enforcement officials and individuals turning up at their farm day and night looking for links to alleged theft and other supposed crime. '

asciilifeform: st 14 years, every time MaxMind’s database has been queried about the location of an IP address in the United States it can’t identify, it has spit out the default location of a spot two hours away from the geographic center of the country...'

asciilifeform: 'Technically, the latitudinal and longitudinal coordinates of the center spot are 39°50′N 98°35′W. In digital maps, that number is an ugly one: 39.8333333,-98.585522. So back in 2002, when MaxMind was first choosing the default point on its digital map for the center of the U.S., it decided to clean up the measurements and go with a simpler, nearby latitude and longitude: 38°N 97°W or 38.0000,-97.0000. As a result, for the la

asciilifeform: one of the favourite, notice, wankages, is to Make Sure No Orc Misses The Light of Enlightenment

asciilifeform: how is this a sadder sack than the english ver ?

asciilifeform: goes right back to the 'soooo you won't spend yer money on konsoomer crud, terrorist? we'll HELP you' ☟︎

asciilifeform: diddled pgptrons that shit out dupe primes are 'yesterday's' thing. i suspect that the state of the art involves rng that still gives each chumper a unique prime pair, but it can be calculated via some kleptographic clue.

asciilifeform: once the 0.05% end up in the hopper.

asciilifeform: thing is, the kind of case described above will phuctor naturally

asciilifeform: it is the kind of crumb i've been searching for.

asciilifeform: definitely, and in the general case.

asciilifeform: though we dun have any ssl certs in phuctor, so it is unlikely to pop any time soon.

asciilifeform: looks like above quote is enough to calculate it...

asciilifeform: 'In the exceptional case of the Oberthur Cosmo Dual 72K cards, approximately 0.05% of the generated keys shared a specific value of prime q. The flaw was discovered in all three tested physical cards for both 512-bit and 1024-bit keys. The repeated prime value was equal to 0xC000...0077 for 512-bit RSA keys and 0xC000...00E9B for 1024-bit RSA keys. These prime values correspond to the first Blum prime generated when starting from the

asciilifeform: i'll say that this is the first not-wholly-plagiarized paper on subj since bernstein's.

asciilifeform: there is no html version of the thing.

asciilifeform: there is discussion of the idiot high-bits-of-prime trimming, and the like.

asciilifeform: dump it to a printer, there is some lulz re obviously braindamaged rng etc.

asciilifeform: in that usenix paper.

asciilifeform: guess who and what isn't once mentioned, trololololol.

asciilifeform: 'The central atom is an undistorted tetrahedral sp3-hybridized carbon bearing four rigorously identical homochiral substituents. [6.6]Chiralane has all the direct rotational symmetries of the regular tetrahedron, but none of its mirror symmetries or higher order improper symmetries.'

asciilifeform: as it was taught to me.

asciilifeform: http://www.chem.ucalgary.ca/courses/350/Carey5th/Ch07/ch7-3.html << the nonsense is still, apparently, taught.

asciilifeform: PeterL: but the traditional heuristic was that no compound can be chiral unless it has one or more chiral centres.

asciilifeform: PeterL: well yes, the non-superimposability of the thing when rotated through 4th d. on itself.

asciilifeform: PeterL: did they ever actually update the Official chirality rules to accomodate 6,6-chiralane ?