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mircea_popescu: Dialog boxes usually say "If you want to tech the tech, you need to tech the tech with the teching tech tech. Tech the tech? Yes / No"
mircea_popescu: at! Still, experience shows that the more words you put on that dialog box, the fewer people will actually read it."
mircea_popescu: "This may sound a little harsh, but you'll see, when you do usability tests, that there are quite a few users who simply do not read words that you put on the screen. If you pop up an error box of any sort, they simply will not read it. This may be disconcerting to you as a programmer, because you imagine yourself as conducting a dialog with the user. Hey, user! You can't open that file, we don't support that file form
mircea_popescu: Method of infection: The surveillance suite is installed after the target accepts installation of a fake update to commonly used software. <<< so... wait. people who never update anything are immune ?
mircea_popescu: there's this retarded hipster mindset using google docs, dropbox, gmail and whatnot.
mircea_popescu: how does it feel to be an industry thought leader / cultural influencer ?
mircea_popescu: by the way, for all of you still using dropbox : dropbox beleeted the finfisher dump.
mircea_popescu: it's very convenient you linked it here, then i can put it on trilema plausibly deniably.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the scammers involved didn't "have delays before". they scammed before. the difference is marked.
mircea_popescu: AntonOsika did you read the part where it says "<mircea_popescu> but that aside, you can have a longer contract, what do i care." ?
mircea_popescu: but that aside, you can have a longer contract, what do i care.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i see boston.com has the seo gods on their urlside.
mircea_popescu: <AntonOsika> I wanted to chat with mircea about his fun ethereum offer. << go on
mircea_popescu: nobody is going to be able to figure out what 67.238.84.x ip to take out!
mircea_popescu: so cheapo inept blackwater just put the webfront on aws to noit have to handle ddos
mircea_popescu: i bet you ddos on the range would actually significantly disrupt their infrastructure. nuke the email server half hour before some important summit, embarrass them to all shit.
mircea_popescu: Amazon Web Service, while the other IPs are in the range:
mircea_popescu: quantum != modicum, mostly because latin works as a language.
mircea_popescu: well technically quanta is the plural of quantum, so i should prolly say quantum, but anwyay.
mircea_popescu: "Every system has to have some quanta of uncertainty affecting it." << that's not a correct use of the term. a quanta is a fixed, measurable, known quantity which quantifies a quantized system, such as 1 is the quanta of binary computing. in physics and so the surrounding world, (macroscopic)energy is usually hν, ie planck's constant (the quanta) times th frequency.
mircea_popescu: but theyd have also taken the tools of their trade, that made them better paid in the first place, along for the ride.
mircea_popescu: consequently, it'd stand to reason that as sportscasters became unemployed, they'd have started the huffpo of their time.
mircea_popescu: it makes perfect sense that there'd be backflow mostly on the obvious grounds that afaik for most of the history a sports journo was better paid than a political comentator
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo that's an interesting theory. someone should probably run lexical analysis over sports coverage and politics in the us, past century.
mircea_popescu: she is pakistani, not palestinian. how are these people to be taken seriously ?
mircea_popescu: she did not quit it earlier in protest of say strikes against pakistani that resulted in what, 1mn people displaced ?
mircea_popescu: so this Sayeeda Hussain Warsi chick quit the uk govt in protest of its support of israel
mircea_popescu: in retrospect, look at the trouble fluffypony started!
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo it doesn't stop there tho. i used to watch formula one, but then... guess what ? david price intervened in the middle of the game and took everyone's bats away and forced them to use curtain rods.
mircea_popescu: well every time someone talks about me, interestingly enough.
mircea_popescu: differentiation presumes meaning. if you can't have meaning, you can't say "that's not sports, that's politics"
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo what is the whole "x random team owner is racist" thing ?
mircea_popescu: chetty kinda interesting how teh black square is trying to do the same "i;m opting out of your fucktarded language space"
mircea_popescu: i guess wrestling actually IS the mother of all us sport.
mircea_popescu: maybe it's all the fallout of television, who's to know. "here's what three generations of visual 'thinking' barbarians will do to language" sort of thing.
mircea_popescu: punkman i can't really distinguish latin languages enough to have an oppinion, other than that modern french is perhaps having a similar if unrelated problem.
mircea_popescu: and it creates a spiral of doom. as the language stops working positively, people stop caring, and so it'll just rot further.
mircea_popescu: contemporary english being a major example of this sad situation. a point expressed in today';s english is actually LESS than what it was before it met expression. that's a sad state of affairs,
mircea_popescu: some other languages however act as a confounder of thought, i am discovering, and a hindrance to expression.
mircea_popescu: this used to work in english too, three centuries ago. "put your idea in writing to see what it actually says".
mircea_popescu: well, here's the thing : some languages act as a metamind for the speakers. the collected intellectual effort of antecessors having constructed the linguistic equivalent of engineer's rulers and whatnot. so that through the mere workings of the language, one's point is refined.
mircea_popescu: i suspect for the average english as sole language speaker action is actually impossible today.
mircea_popescu: you can't run with your eyes closed. you can';t act in a world inhabited by these phantasms.
mircea_popescu: so you know, when the markov chain-based invaders finally take over, they'll be welcomed by the populace.