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mircea_popescu: that's not how you do it. you gift the guy a laptop and explain how to use it.
mircea_popescu: once the guy hears "non repudiable, just keep the blob" eyes light up like an xmas tree
mircea_popescu: bounce it's been going on for a while, this scam. most brokers with high value accounts have been pretty spooked back in the 90s already
mircea_popescu: and i bet you the dude in question never touched any of the bills he "signed"
mircea_popescu: much like the "signature", ie, scribbling down on paper. fuck me, i have bills in this room issued by 6 different governments, they all have a signature on them
mircea_popescu: stuff here is not nearly as falsifiable as the "trustworthy" phonecall.
mircea_popescu: bounce incidentally, since you bring it up : most idiots of the "irc is not irl" and "i trust real people" variety fail to understand that with modern computers i can make any one person to say any one thing. just give me a collection of their voice recorded.
mircea_popescu: Adlai you should check his code out btw, it's actually better if you want lightweight/text only than any browser
mircea_popescu: you all keep bashing it, but wordpress' xmlrpc is written in php
mircea_popescu: and the idiots "using" your "service" won't understand that they're all equally worthless, so...
mircea_popescu: then people will find how to ewxploit one, trade it for all the others you hold
mircea_popescu: wyrdmantis it is a very shitty spot to be in, running one of those, because the shitcoins are often badly written, such as was the case with xrp.
mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic idol worshipping hasn't stopped either, it just moves further to the outskirts
mircea_popescu: what's the worst that'll hapen, it'll fuck her in the ass ?
mircea_popescu: node.js is a great toolset to build your gf a dildo with.
mircea_popescu: except you know, some stuff manages to be basic and advanced at the same time.
mircea_popescu: this is why bunkers are made out of steel and concrete, even while luxury items are made out of silk and glass.
mircea_popescu: wyrdmantis whenever you wish to build something hardened, you are advised to use the lowest level tools you can use.
mircea_popescu: "<kakobrekla> i got distracted by a pussy and a pair of tits." ?
mircea_popescu: maybe you do that after it gets hacked, as punishment.
mircea_popescu: Adlai im pretty sure you can view bitbet in emacs if it comes to it.
mircea_popescu: then derps derp about 50mn lines of code. seriously, bitch ? that's your caching ?
mircea_popescu: but just as an indication of the problem : w3 total cache, version 8.5 ? 250kb. w3 total cache, version 9.2 ? 1,8 mb
mircea_popescu: it's also a glimpse into bitcoin's future, if usgavin and the power retard crowd have their way
mircea_popescu: the way wp codebase works is indicative of what naggum described, the problem of maggots wanting the status of coder and so writing code for the sake of being coders.
mircea_popescu: they made in the interval about 10 different claims to "having fixed it"
mircea_popescu: the bug affects the codebase all the way through, to the first introducton of xlmrpc back in 2004 or w/e
mircea_popescu: “This tradeoff in pingback’s design has been there for a decade now,” he said via email. “It’s seldom used outside of experimentation because it gets shut down by anti-spam providers like Akismet or web hosts when used at any scale, and there are cheaper, easier, and more effective ways to DDOS sites. That’s why no serious attacks (above 2gbps) use it.”
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski sent you a pingback. fix the hole will you.
mircea_popescu: decimation the thing is they work on a per dollar basis. if there's nothing to steal they can't afford to prosecute you.
mircea_popescu: most poor people get that added benefit, thatthey can just forego the irs altogether
mircea_popescu: Why? Because I don't want to fund the evil banksters who prey on impressionable young 18 year olds who don't know jack shit about the world, 18-year olds who are pressured by society into college they can't afford."
mircea_popescu: "Fuck yes we can. I have student loan debt. Am I going to pay it ? Nope. Not ever. Over my dead fucking body will they get a penny from me.