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kleeck: Anyone here know what
a ball park for how many chips to expect in
a "Test batch"?
nubbins`: shrug, pretty sure they came to
a mutual agreement
nubbins`: well, yes. smart guy, he rented out part of his building to
a laundromat and captures their waste heat to keep the grow areas warm
nubbins`: there's
a guy here in my town that runs
a massive hydroponic lettuce operation, i wonder if he's been eyeing these new regulations
nubbins`: it's even more bizarre when you consider that there's
a legal medical marijuana industry in canada
nubbins`: ^ some kid on reddit who bought his grandma some btc
a few years ago
nubbins`: "why are my hands vibrating?" followed by "and my arms", followed
a few minutes later by "oh fuck now it's in my face, i need to lie down"
nubbins`: try taking altitude-sickness drugs and having
a beer.
KRS-: omg smoking cigarettes while on blood pressure meds is giving me
a helluva buzz..this should be illegal =D
nubbins`: of course, whenever full legalization comes around, there will already be
a massive, massive legal growing industry already in place
mircea_popescu: they don't have
a job anyway, might as well live somwehre da police ain't husslin them for pot.
mircea_popescu: kids get all excited in may, invest their allowance, dream about how they'll be rich "in the future" = next week, and how they'll start
a family with beck tatcher down the aisle
mircea_popescu: basically,
a bunch of btc finance is powered by summer vacation.
mircea_popescu: every summer to date there was
a hot company that passed s.mpoe
nubbins`:
a bit cheeky, maybe, but you get the idea
nubbins`: y'know, you could draw
a venn diagram with those 3 groups and have
a sizable common area in the middle
nubbins`: i mentioned to
a friend
a few months ago that i made
a bunch of money buying and selling btc-denominated securities.
a couple of days later, he says "did you ever make any more money with that scam after?"
smickles: i usually make
a profit when it tanks
mircea_popescu: they made the proposition that the value of something can rest on sexual favours
a bannable offence
mircea_popescu: apparently sa people can't stand the idea of working for
a living.
mircea_popescu: you know,
a year ago when the something awful muppets were all "o no, bitcoins have no value"
kleeck: The free market always finds
a way.
mircea_popescu: if it cost the same in all countries i'd buy
a million handpicked chicks and go start
a new country where the bj is 10x.
kleeck: "Um excuse me, boy! That's
a BJcoin, this is going to cost an AnalCoin!"
nubbins`: or at the very least,
a masturcoin
kleeck: Someone give that dude
a BJCoin.
nubbins`: mostly just
a discussion of the melvins
nubbins`: i think there is
a rhyming dictionary
mircea_popescu: the rhyming dictionary would kick ass. "hagged = shagged
a jag"
nubbins`: prof asks one of the 5 to explain what
a hagging is
nubbins`: i did
a folklore course (just one!) in university when we discussed this
smickles: oh snap, this site just delivered on zero confirms from
a tx that was sent from
a client 4 weeks out of sync
nubbins`: pretty sure there's
a halloween joke in there somewhere
mod6: (09:54) < asciilifeform>
a logic analyzer isn't
a nuke sub, you don't need to 'live the supernode lifestyle' to buy one. << lol!
mircea_popescu: i could see
a situation where he doesn't know how to use it and doesn't trust anyone to. this situation, obviously, can't stand as an explanation.
smickles: sqrl is like, click
a link /snap
a photo == securely logged in
Ukto: I need
a lot less work from things that cost more more than I make.
Ukto: came to
a decision on the change over the last few days
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform bob____ there's such
a thing as claim analysis. if you make
a claim that has about 10% chances that's
a 10% chance. if you make twenty claims each with 10% chances that's 10^-18%
kakobrekla: keep an unecrpyted wallet with
a some change on your computer for early warning system
bob____: so through the power of empirical evidence,
a lot of pirated software is infected
bob____: my friend has
a pirated addiction (actual friend, not me). and he always ends up infected.
mircea_popescu: the former is
a corporate pr effort. the latter
a gov't pr effort. people got interests, yo.
Namworld: "Imma just put these 2000 BTC on this computer with
a pirated Windowz because I'm cheap like that. Where would I get that kind of money to get
a license anyway?"
nubbins`: turns out he's using
a pre-infected version of windows he grabbed from the pirate bay
mircea_popescu: i think he;'s
a little manic atm. guy has been involved in the sort of shit all his life
deadweasel: I want verification by
a non-crackin' up researcher.
mircea_popescu: well going mad has this irrecoverable air to it. i'm thinking more in terms of, hasn't slept for 16 days, had
a lot of coffee, is seeing things.
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mircea_popescu: kleeck i suspect dragos ruiu is having
a nervous breakdown, honestly.
mircea_popescu: However, the dreams returned, but these were clearly not my own. I beheld
a vision of
a great man, the mage, Tal Rasha. You were there too Tyrael, I remember seeing you in my dream.
nubbins`: probably
a PR stunt to make the world aware of his epic villain name
kleeck: ""Really, everything Dragos reports is something that's easily within the capabilities of
a lot of people," said Graham, who is CEO of penetration testing firm Errata Security. "I could, if I spent
a year, write
a BIOS that does everything Dragos said badBIOS is doing. To communicate over ultrahigh frequency sound waves between computers is really, really easy.""
kleeck: "I lost another one yesterday confirming that's simply plugging in
a USB device from an infected system into
a clean one is sufficient to infect. This was on
a BSD system, so this is definitely not
a Windows issue.- and it's
a low level issue, I didn't even mount the volume and it was infected. Could this be an overflow in the way bios ids the drive? "
kleeck: Mix this with
a BTC Exploit...
kleeck: ""We had an air-gapped computer that just had its [firmware] BIOS reflashed,
a fresh disk drive installed, and zero data on it, installed from
a Windows system CD," Ruiu said. "At one point, we were editing some of the components and our registry editor got disabled. It was like: wait
a minute, how can that happen? How can the machine react and attack the software that we're using to attack it? Th
truffles: well thats cuz walt was
a genius
nubbins`: i've been listening to
a lot of talking heads lately
KRS-: this was
a good movie
truffles: i lost track, had to pause
a lot
nubbins`: how about
a small table with two chairs?
a collaboration system?
nubbins`: actually,
a paper and pen is
a way better collaboration system than irc
nubbins`: you might as well call the telephone
a collaboration system
nubbins`: i think calling an irc client collaboration software is
a bit of
a stretch
jcpham: freenode is an organization,
a disjointed entity of ideas and communication
jcpham: i'm usually
a few ideas ahead
KRS-: that new song lorde-royals..the singer babe looks like she has
a fat face and also vaginal odor.
truffles: gimme
a list n i can filter it for u
nubbins`: this is meant to be listened at
a volume just
a notch or two below "uncomfortably loud"
jcpham: labcoin is still
a thing?
kakobrekla: i have an annoucment to make, in
a couple of hours ill be making an annoucment
nubbins`: i'd heard of them for 15+ years before i bothered to give them
a serious listen
nubbins`: they added
a second drummer
a couple of years ago
bob____: nubbins`: they said they do have
a better way. measure the amount of electricity required to move the mass
nubbins`: truffles,
a bit less whimsy than the original
nubbins`: even more amusing that they literally cannot find
a better way to define it
nubbins`: and
a kilogram is "this thing right here"
nubbins`: it's amusing that the meter is defined in terms of the distance
a beam of light moves in x amount of time
nubbins`:
a lot of them are shit, but there are diamonds in the rough
kakobrekla: you are rite truffles, i should shave and lose
a few kilos
nubbins`: yeah, i gave
a friend
a 0.5 brass some months ago for his birthday
nubbins`: sicker when the price drops so you have to sell yours at
a loss in order to get
a sale