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mircea_popescu: we were arguing about power ranger braindamage uptake is like.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: the non-classical version strings are interesting << the first time i said ppl alter their strings ppl hgere were "oh, mp is just making shit up to win an internet argument"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you may be old enough to recall the fucking relief php was back when ppl were stuck doining web-cgi
mircea_popescu: oh i see. meh. prolly jurov should just reg it to mess with people.
mircea_popescu: decimation: yeah xbt is gay but it can be used as a wedge << a wedge ?!
mircea_popescu: consequently, the incredibly idiotic shit it does is concentrated
mircea_popescu: decimation no, moreover, php doesn't try to do much. literally, it's intended to process strings.
mircea_popescu: no dude, php is a lot more stable than ruby bs, then the ruby crowd goes around bitching about php
mircea_popescu: fucking scavenger culture. "o, nice car, is it the latest ford ? no, it's an old toyota civic with the crap thrown off"
mircea_popescu: Opal is a variety of low-aromatic << that'd be a problem
mircea_popescu: this idea that what people want matters as a universal...
mircea_popescu: yeah well, basically, this is a disguised gift of stock from directors / interested parties to company
mircea_popescu: at any rate, that's what it should mean, regardless what they actuall did.
mircea_popescu: you know if you dig deep enough everyone's going to have a bunch of idiotic notions.
mircea_popescu: (the way "spam" works is you pay yahoo 100 bux or w/e, never get fglagged. dun recall right off what google is)
mircea_popescu: it just means everyone else is drowning in their own shit
mircea_popescu: <assbot> Julian Assange: "Bitcoin's Blockchain Most Intellectually Interesting Development In The Last Five Years | Qntra.net << for sure.
mircea_popescu: cazalla the sorrow in that "That's about as close as you can get with BitCoin." is delicious.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> instant anti-ddos pill << this is like saying that because anyone can wget -m qntra.net that's an anti ddos pill
mircea_popescu: <jurov> there must be some statistic how price of uprooting increases with age >> it does ? why would it ?
mircea_popescu: i think the bar for thai citizenship is having sex with a trannie
mircea_popescu: us citizens on army bases routinely get dual citizenship kids if they become pregnant and deliver
mircea_popescu: pretty much everyone, really. germany definitely, if you were born there.
mircea_popescu: mod6: me too, that threw me off. but maybe i did something silly with the install by creating a root account? i'm not super clued on deb... but it asked me to make a root account first, then a user account. so that was kinda bizzare to me. << no that's how debian did it for what, 10, 15 years ?
mircea_popescu: i forget what this is called in us politics, but o yeah, "splitting the vote"
mircea_popescu: so as to create the illusion that there's no actual support for simple stuff like "either you renounce ALL your laws or we burn you to the ground."
mircea_popescu: othernubs`: i thought medium was the sort of site where literally anyone can publish? <<< medium is, essentially, the sort of venue created to give the impression of a #b-a to the 99% idiots who can't tell the difference.
mircea_popescu: it certainly couldn't be because the world sucks, right ?
mircea_popescu: year, really, i wonder why the fuck is it that the best kids that the us can produce want to go help isis burn the whole world.
mircea_popescu: undata the same obnoxious farts that create this "passport" that means no rights are also wondering why even a teenager if she has any sense wants to bomb them off the planet.
mircea_popescu: apparently you can void passports for truancy now, in the bestest america.
mircea_popescu: "Three Colorado high school students may have been playing hooky so they could run away and join ISIS — apparently seduced by their twisted campaign of terror and hatred. The girls, ages 15, 16 and 17, never showed up to their Denver-area school on Friday because they were en route to Turkey via Germany," <<< much better chicks than any "feminist" or w/e.
mircea_popescu: bounce: I don't care if maladjusted angry youths want to run away and make trouble in a war zone. I do care if they come back, recruit some more kids (to do the same), cause trouble, shoot some jews, what have you. << how else do you expect the shithole to be fixed ?
mircea_popescu: bounce: announce that loud and clear and everybody knows what the score is. "if you want to go there, you're dead to us." << it won't work.
mircea_popescu: chetty incidentally, the french are also building their own gulag, huh
mircea_popescu: jurov: wtf is "individual terrorist undertaking"? << basically, what you're doing here.
mircea_popescu: i might review what this guy has to say sometime in 21xx, maybe.
mircea_popescu couldn't give less of a shit about whatever "star" the ustardians have produced this week.
mircea_popescu: the fact that we survived does not mean they didn't try.
mircea_popescu: leveldb in and of itself is whatever, maybe not the first choice for a db. leveldb as implemented by hearn was an attack on bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: leveldb / poorly understood / not tested new code caused a fork
mircea_popescu: jurov the major code reorg that caused a fork. factual.
mircea_popescu: "The HTTPAuthorized function in bitcoinrpc.cpp in bitcoind 0.8.1 provides information about authentication failure upon detecting the first incorrect byte of a password, which makes it easier for remote attackers to determine passwords via a timing side-channel attack."
mircea_popescu: quite. mp still recalls the profusely apologetic "we fucked up the init and consequently ppl got pwned" stuff coming out of the chief scientists
mircea_popescu: to defeat cryptographic protection mechanisms by leveraging the resulting PRNG predictability, as exploited in the wild against Bitcoin wallet applications in August 2013."
mircea_popescu: "The engineNextBytes function in classlib/modules/security/src/main/java/common/org/apache/harmony/security/provider/crypto/SHA1PRNG_SecureRandomImpl.java in the SecureRandom implementation in Apache Harmony through 6.0M3, as used in the Java Cryptography Architecture (JCA) in Android before 4.4 and other products, when no seed is provided by the user, uses an incorrect offset value, which makes it easier for attackers
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but you were born in odessa ? then you do have ru citizenship no ?
mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> asciilifeform came to see a sonic youth show and never left << lol too funnay.