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ascii_deadfiber: mircea_popescu: seems like
the 'littoral combat ship' is 500-600mil each.
Framedragger: their use of encryption seems
to be so
that lazy competitors would be forced
to use
their own servers; because
there's not really much in
terms of authentication, see...
Framedragger: "It also downloads firmware updates over
http and doesn't appear
to check signatures on
them, so
there's
the potential for MITM attacks on
the plug itself.
The remote control server is on AWS unless your
timezone is GMT+8, in which case it's in China."
Framedragger: *of course*
this
thing will be using rand() wrongly, *of course* it pipes user input
to system() so
that you can pass commands after a semicolon, etc.; it's pretty amusing
mircea_popescu: i regularly see ww2 benz
trucks here. and egypt was chock full of ancient cars also.
mircea_popescu: eh,
third world can fix diesel engines alright from what i've seen
mircea_popescu: quite
the kalash of its own,
that
thing, as it
turns out.
mircea_popescu: locals shat
their pants so bad had
the us coast goard sail over from florida
to protect
them
mircea_popescu: ascii_deadfiber
they fired
torpedoes off submarine at coast goard while i was
there in CR.
mircea_popescu: are you fucking me
this
thing looks like it was designed by john oliver and a
team of harvard educated brits.
mircea_popescu: ascii_deadfiber smugglers have bazooka ever since rambo was on
thirld world
tv.
mircea_popescu: ascii_deadfiber so it was for fighting what, women from
the 1950s household ? with
the hairdo and
the apron ?
mircea_popescu: "let's build a ship so
that if anyone hits it with a rocket, like
the smallest possible rocket, like a healthy 4th of july piece of firework, it splits right in half and sinks in five minutes"
mircea_popescu: prior
to
this encounter i couldn't even conceive of
this notion.
ascii_deadfiber: but i expect
the original will soon enough make its way
to a museum
mircea_popescu: holy shit on wheels, what fucking "performance enhancing" drugs must one be
to design
this shit omfg. have you SEEN
these
things ?
mircea_popescu: in principle nothing ever happened and etc etc, i
think we all know
the drill by now.
mircea_popescu: ascii_deadfiber it's one of
those
things, "mp has no proof", nor is he offering any.
mircea_popescu: anyway,
the story of
ther "littoral combat ship" really should be
told. derps wanted a sort of "automated gunship" but on water,
to fight drug people. ended up with a ship
that's entirely useless.
ascii_deadfiber: incidentally - and i've not been keeping up with altsc4mz - but, is it necessarily
the case
that eth price was propped up by burning btc ?
mircea_popescu: ascii_deadfiber see,
the "LCS" officially only cost 80mn per annum. so like...
they just fucked up
the budget for five of
them (iirc
they only have 2 anyway) in one short week!
ascii_deadfiber: mircea_popescu: it was and is - hilariously - one of
their few 'cultural universals'. ~everyone in usa has seen
the film.
trinque: jurov:
there, be as floppy as you want, puny human
☟︎ mircea_popescu: ridiculous
though. star wars is a rhapsody in papier mache
ascii_deadfiber: at
this point 'looks like starwars' is probably de-facto design criterion for 100% of usg mil iron
mircea_popescu: ascii_deadfiber
they look like something from star wars, also. fucking ridiculous, how entirely inept, uncultivated and in general intellectually useless usians are.
ascii_deadfiber: some 'creative
thinker' decided
that a floating 'stealth bomber' would be just
the
thing.
mircea_popescu: the difference being
that
those scams go into buying harvard yachts ; whereas
these losses go into buying isis spiked condoms./
mircea_popescu: they're 3
to 500mn underwater, depending what exact accounting standard you employ, and on other
things.
this may seem like a joke
to you, but it's pretty fucking far from a joke
to
them. and
the fact
that
they naively authorised more funds
to
try and buy
their way out of it because mp said "rape"... well. it's not even cautered yet, still bleeding.
ascii_deadfiber: the f35 was pure embezzlement,
the bloody ship - was actually built, expending strategic metals, labour, etc. of a whole pyramid army
ascii_deadfiber: but not more
than any number of
their idiot 'own goals', e.g.,
the 'littoral combat ship'
mircea_popescu: no, it's just
that if you write down
the historical
trade losses of usg agents
to date, etherape figures way
towards
the
top.
this is more
than, say, gaddafi ever managed.
ascii_deadfiber: is
this something like 'liver
transplant for a corpse'
theorem ?
mircea_popescu: ascii_deadfiber
that bit of irrelevance is also not germane. possibly ms "stole
the 9bn back", via
treasury fiat printing. so ?
ascii_deadfiber: supposing
that
they 1) bought
the coin 2) can't simply steal it back -- i can see it
mircea_popescu: the etherape easily figures in
the
top 50 most costly mistakes of usg agencies
to date.
mircea_popescu: ascii_deadfiber anyway, back
to
the
topic of bleeding
the usg : you understand
that
the largest loss in its history was ~10bn via MS on
the subprime crap.
this is already percents of
that.
trinque: you want me
to put a regex engine in
the middle eh?
trinque: jurov:
the fuck does
that have
to do with lisp
mircea_popescu: ascii_deadfiber i'd
trust
this eval a lot more if it were based on some experience!
trinque: what got fixed? it'll
try
to up any nick you give it.
mircea_popescu: mno.
the difference between domesticated animal and animal domesticator is
that
the domesticated animal only hangs out with man whereas man hangs out with random animals.
ascii_deadfiber: mircea_popescu
thinks
that he is veteran zoophile but his 'cows' ain't fat.
mircea_popescu: i went
to
the fucking vagrant epicenter aka "design college" here.
mircea_popescu: ever more stuff for
the "it never happened and hanno boeck did it anyway" machine.
a111: Logged on 2016-06-22 12:55
thestringpuller:
the original dao is drained. but
the attacker split into
the whitehat child dao, so he can now start attacking
a111: Logged on 2016-06-22 12:52 ascii_deadfiber: and force
the derps
to have a blacklist weighing a GB, in
their idiot fork
a111: Logged on 2016-06-22 12:02
thestringpuller: ascii_deadfiber: would pop when we own
them <<
that is
true. one of us would also be addicted
to some
techno drug. don't
that have "intellect enhancer" in neuromancer
too?
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-22#1486970 << you know,
the proposition
that drugs enhance
the mind is not so unlikely from
the proposition
that hanging polished stones of various colors, dead parrots and other detritus from
the weights of a grandfather clock improve its
timekeeping accuracy.
☝︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: anyway. if you're not
too invested in current sig, making new one
treating it better is certainly
the golden road.
mircea_popescu: well, at least gives you something definite
to point
to
gernika: mircea_popescu: jurov's suggestion was
to declare
the
thing invalid for any use case in a deed. It's not clear
to me what good
that would do.
mircea_popescu: gernika how'd a retraction work, you know ?
think of
the dao!
gernika: Curious re: above idiocy of mine wrt "I agree." Better
to deedbot a retraction or just start over with a new private key?
ascii_deadfiber: they would sooner
think of burning
the north pole, at least
they can picture it on
the map.
ascii_deadfiber: this would be perhaps why
the 'blacks burn black streets'
thing.
ascii_deadfiber: they do not go
to any of
the same places,
the roads are arranged such
that you will never glimpse it, etc.
ascii_deadfiber: but i have some clues. homo usaticus is veeery well-bred for parochialism. easily compartmented. i learned recently
that
there is a
trailer park 20min away from where i live. but i have never once seen it, nor any of
the people in it!
ascii_deadfiber: they have 'black' streets with multiple condemned row houses and regular corpse removal calls, and perhaps 50m away
there is 'white' street with $2mil houses.