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mircea_popescu: After paying € 8088.- euros to CyberBunker, nothing further was heard from the SWAT team."
mircea_popescu: "CyberBunker's lawyers later discovered that the police had indeed sent officers to the bunker for what they claimed was a “routine check” and that nothing out of the ordinary had taken place. When CyberBunker's lawyers suggested that the surveillance footage could be put online, the police department then quickly offered to pay to repair the damage caused to the fence.
mircea_popescu: dat phonecall lol. like a chick stood up on a date, only lulzier.
mircea_popescu: inside the bunker noticed anything unusual. The SWAT team did some further investigating, and appears to be making phone calls. Finally the SWAT team realized what occurred when City Hall attempted to breach the blast doors. Apparently recognizing that they had gone overboard on their raid, the SWAT team decided to go home.
mircea_popescu: e bunker with a battering ram. It must not have occurred to the officers that the blast doors were designed to withstand a 20 megaton nuclear explosion from close range. When the SWAT team realized that the door was not being opened for them, they throw flashbangs and take other actions to draw attention. The surveillance footage shows quite a lot of activity at this point. On the other side of the blast doors, no one
mircea_popescu: Once the SWAT team reached the bunker's blast doors, they 'knock' to announce their presence. It is unclear exactly what they say, as no sound is recorded from the surveillance system. CyberBunker is equipped with an advanced Intruder Detection System (IDS), however due to a testing drill the previous night the IDS system was accidentally left in the inactive mode. Two SWAT officers are seen to hit the blast door of th
☟︎ mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo pretty much the only thing about a dc location is if it's on a ring or not.
mircea_popescu: dr_love you can still run it like BingoBoingo suggested, for no extra cost, if you got the "people" in question
mircea_popescu: bounce 8k sqft underground is a respectable wine cellar.
mircea_popescu: they may just as well play dice in that interval for better EV
mircea_popescu: or else he wins other's money. to get a jackpot large you need a bunch of idiots to play a bad odds gamre for a long time.
mircea_popescu: dr_love understand : either the player wins his own money (ie, risks 1 cent, may make 100 btc 1:10000 times)
mircea_popescu: but very congested places it can run significantly more, and some (esp new) places may be giving it away free for a long commit
mircea_popescu: should be more or less in the $100 range that you were discussing.
mircea_popescu: jurov depends a lot where and for how long you're getting it, really.
mircea_popescu: jurov so if a business isn't insta-cash positive it shouldn't exist ?
mircea_popescu: jurov a) most dcs that are even half decent don't charge for ddos ; b) those that do rent you fixed pipe anyway
mircea_popescu: dr_love basically it's a marketing wrapper on top of a dice site. best work as a promoter then i guess.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla that's a flawed premise. collective security, baby.
mircea_popescu: in short i'd put bitvps down to poor management rather than poor fundamentals.
mircea_popescu: great, up until rg went on a drinking binge or w/e it was he did
mircea_popescu: it's rare that you get the customers asking for you, usually people have to create markets
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla i specifically recall say asciilifeform asking for one.
mircea_popescu: the idea that poor people have something to say boggles.
mircea_popescu: blogger that can't afford any but free hosting should stfu and turn the fries.
mircea_popescu: consider yest, qntra was up but say bingo's blog was down. well ? what's he to do ?
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla listen, people like the amateur ddos guy will be helping with this.
mircea_popescu: thus creating a single point of failure. which people can evaluate for trust.
mircea_popescu: colocate in locked boxes, don't allow the dc or anyone else any sort of access to the boxes, kivm or whatever
mircea_popescu: if it's someone you trust then it's someone you trust.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla best i can tell, all someone needs to do is a) be a sysadmin and b) colocate a few boxes in a decent dc
mircea_popescu: let's pretend like things are other things and stuff!1
mircea_popescu: "All those haters that come in here with economic models and charts telling us it's impossible; all the hit pieces penned by pros like Krugman telling us to 'grow up' - none of them really quite grasp that there could possibly be a group of people who have the audacity to sit around their hallowed poker table without needing to win."
mircea_popescu: PinkPosixPXE you know people have been clamoring for a bitcoin host for a while.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla mpoe-pr told kraken pr to quit over their trying to paper over that incident.
mircea_popescu: ended up with ~100 btc in deposits they couldn't properly credit.
mircea_popescu: cazalla few months ago, they had this embarassing moment when they sent the same deposit address to anyone asking for a deposit address for a day or two
mircea_popescu: cazalla anyway, you can mention the time they lost customer deposits, too, round it all up, since it's there.
mircea_popescu: cazalla but when you quote what the man says whle the man's puffing up his business, you are in fact publishing paid pr.
mircea_popescu: whether we're getting paid for that sort of thing or not, it's still paid pr.