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punkman: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-02-2016#1415142 << there is no open-source equivalent. last time I checked. ☝︎
mod6: jurov: test worked with just a regular clearsigned message.
asciilifeform: afaik it is sorta like, e.g., tokelau
mircea_popescu: i dunno, never been there.
asciilifeform: wtf even happens in antigua other than spamcorp registration..?
mircea_popescu: more\s the case - the endless list of us derpage gives us a list of concrete violations to take to those who facilitate the activities of the international crime syndicate. we can say to these people : the us is a rogue state. you further their conspiracies at your personal risk.
asciilifeform went deep behind the lines yesterday
mircea_popescu: “[The Antiguan legal victory] gives us a concrete decision to take to others who facilitate SlySoft and their business. We can say to those who do business with them: ‘This is an illegal activity’,” AACS’s lawyer added.
mod6: mircea_popescu: thanks Sir. :]
assbot: Logged on 25-02-2016 03:06:29; BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Maybe this is the slowly stress you into an inclanation towards insanity phase of your DeHarting?
BingoBoingo: Kim Dotcom sorta situation where until appeals go through it persisted, but suddenly collapsed before appeal
asciilifeform: who the everloving fuck ~buys~ dvdrip proggy?! ☟︎
BingoBoingo: DVD/bluDVD copy thing drew a bunch of USG aggro. Derpy thorn in copyrasta's sides but still a thorn. One of the longest running "legit" ones.
assbot: Slysoft DVD Ripper Owner Found Guilty in Criminal Action - TorrentFreak ... ( http://bit.ly/1KMoyrc )
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i don't get it, derpy windows-based, closed source dvd copy thing ?
mircea_popescu: might be one of the closest bets in bitbet history
assbot: BitBet - AlphaGo will defeat Lee Sedol overall in March 2016 match :: 37.45 B (50%) on Yes, 37.65 B (50%) on No | closing in 1 week 5 days | weight: 49`852 (100`000 to 1) ... ( http://bit.ly/1QsN9gt )
assbot: Logged on 07-11-2015 23:34:52; asciilifeform: 'no need have i of mercy, / no need have i of laurels, / but let me have a rifle, / and let me have a horse, / and if i chance to perish, / let my red platoonmates, / let my red platoonmates,/ make'em pay, of course.'
asciilifeform: seems like the Right Thing.
mircea_popescu: aite then
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Maybe this is the slowly stress you into an inclanation towards insanity phase of your DeHarting? ☟︎
deedbot-: [Qntra] Software Company Shuttered By Trade Dispute - http://qntra.net/2016/02/software-company-shuttered-by-trade-dispute/
BingoBoingo: !up thestringpuller
asciilifeform: !up thestringpuller
BingoBoingo: Maybe this is the Google AlphaBitBetBot
asciilifeform: ther with straightening the picture.' -- 'ww2 axis booby traps.'
asciilifeform: 'Like other armies the Germans emplaced booby traps to catch unwary souvenir-hunters, but they also used them to cause casualties among Allied small-unit leaders by locating them in possible command post and observation post sites. One example of this was to conceal a booby trap behind a framed picture left hanging crooked on an interior wall of a house: the Germans reasoned that only an officer would be irritated enough to bo ☟︎
assbot: Silk Road 2.0 Case Confirms FBI And CMU Tor Attack Collaboration : DarkNetMarkets ... ( http://bit.ly/1OvVHSD )
asciilifeform: (from 'vietname infantry tactics', l. rottman, osprey pub. co., 2011)
asciilifeform: 'US troops often demonstrated poor litter discipline, discarding all manner of trash, damaged gear and clothing, expended batteries, and more. Much of this was of use to the VC, and they would collect such materials after a unit moved on.'
mod6: trinque: hey, when you get a chance, can you deed bot this for me? http://www.mod6.net/btcf/build-bitcoind-V99995.sh for me with the same name?
asciilifeform: https://cryptome.org/2016/02/usg-apple-012-014.pdf << usg expels crapple's atty. on a technicality
asciilifeform: where soon landlords will be able to raise all rents by 550 eu...
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski ought to have opened up his rental business in fi ! ☟︎
assbot: Logged on 23-02-2016 08:51:15; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-02-2016#1413406 << basically us "college" chumpatron still experimenting with "what's the lowest qty of candy bar we give the cattle to keep getting the sweet sweet usg funds for them. like, out of the 100k per capita we get in fed funny money, what's the least we could dole out to the maggots in whose name the whole scheme is run ? maybe -100`000 in paper and $
asciilifeform: ^ related to http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=23-02-2016#1413495 ☝︎
asciilifeform: table for many finns to take up temporary and low-paying work ...' etc etc
asciilifeform: http://www.vedomosti.ru/economics/articles/2015/12/09/620202-finlyandiya-550-evro << finland 'plans to pay all adult citizens 550 eu. independently of all other income; the sum will not be taxed. in return, the finns will have to disclaim all other government benefits, which add up, on average, to 600 eu., but no greater than 1500' (????) 'the government will ... consider this idea in nov. 2016 ... ... right now, it is unprofi
asciilifeform: 'ah the delicate je ne se quoi pizda ma-tii of a French newspaper' << ahahahaha
assbot: Logged on 25-02-2016 00:43:43; mircea_popescu: once that went away, "city" took over heat generation. except it's impossible to run a thing made to WASTE HEAT efficiently
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-02-2016#1415044 << over here, they run, e.g., university campus heat, off the exhaust of (natural gas) electric turbine. ☝︎
asciilifeform: i will do it, but strictly because i do not presently perceive an alternative to exist.
assbot: Logged on 25-02-2016 00:29:59; mircea_popescu: the idea being that i announced a contest, haven't seen much in the way of submissions, ima award the 10 btc prize to alf for an implementation of a c-s derivative.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-02-2016#1415029 << i am actually very ambivalent about recommending an integer field arithm cipher for use as block cipher on a conventional pc. for one thing, we will have transfer rates measured in kb/sec (if we're lucky.) for another, extreme side channel danger, because we're branching-on-secrets. for a third, entropy starvation. ☝︎
asciilifeform: but i do not expect this.
asciilifeform: and i would secretly love to be proven wrong, and for an actual cryptographer to exist, and show up, flying on jet pack, and show a scientifically-founded blockcipher for us.
assbot: Logged on 25-02-2016 00:39:29; mircea_popescu: asciilifeform how dja feel about waiting till march 4th ?
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-02-2016#1415038 << i suggest that it is done 1) no earlier than 4th 2) no earlier than working cramershouptron is posted 5) paid not to my earthly carcass but to snsa piggy - under whose flag it will be published. ☝︎☟︎
mircea_popescu: with thanks to BingoBoingo for his log lulz.
assbot: Throw_it_all_away_99 comments on Redditors who are now married because you didn't know how to break up with your significant other, how is that going for you? ... ( http://bit.ly/1Qfv61C )
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: the botero museum in bogota is mega-recommended if you're ever out exploring the rest of your continent :)
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: you gotta consider at least once, but often several times a year too much water is a problem in this region. Maybe once every 5-10 years driety is problematic.
deedbot-: [Trilema] The Obese Argentine Manatee and other tales of bloody vaginal discharge. - http://trilema.com/2016/the-obese-argentine-manatee-and-other-tales-of-bloody-vaginal-discharge/
BingoBoingo: Nah water here almost universally tends to be metered on a per building basis
pete_dushenski: ah thought this was new construction. nvm.
assbot: Logged on 24-02-2016 23:40:41; BingoBoingo: Most of the ads I've seen bundle water/sewer into the condo fee, but may be a regional quirk
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-02-2016#1415005 << probably limited time offer. land developers are in a nasty habit of this atm. i've even seen "we guarantee that you'll be able to rent out your new suite for $1500 per month for the first 2 years. buy now!" in an attempt to sucker in would-be first-time landlords ☝︎
BingoBoingo: appologies for spurious IP address, was in the spam filter feed tube
pete_dushenski: only turn on fireplaces at -20c. otherwise, no need.
pete_dushenski: aha. parents' penthouse has no heating, just waste heat from 19 stories underneath. this is 'innovative' in the usual soviet sense i guess.
mircea_popescu: so people weren't too keen to pay the city when there were cheap gas based wall units they could install instead.
mircea_popescu: once that went away, "city" took over heat generation. except it's impossible to run a thing made to WASTE HEAT efficiently ☟︎
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski gotta appreciate, most of these soviet arrangements were built atop "free" waste heat from the heavy industrial plants the dormitory- cities were made to feed anyway.
assbot: Logged on 24-02-2016 23:18:55; mircea_popescu: "also i want to turn off central heating, your prices suck" "uhh wut ?" "my title!!!"
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-02-2016#1414933 << can turn of heat to unit via thermostat, but if pipes freeze (in arctic at least), owner liable for damage to other units from flooding if pipes burst ☝︎
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-02-2016#1414888 << capsule today, rsa pill tomorrow ☝︎
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform how dja feel about waiting till march 4th ? ☟︎
mod6: That way we don't wait, but we don't slam the door yet either.
mod6: Perhaps this: Implement with Cramer-Shoup, and if the implementation is finalized before any worthy submissions come to us, then end the contest and pay the btc to alf?
mod6: I'm kinda torn, I want us to move forward with 'g', so Cramer-Shoup fits the bill for sure. On the other hand, I'd like to think that over a long interval we might see some interesting submissions eventually.
mircea_popescu: the idea is to not do this too rushedly, but also to not delay pointlessly.
mircea_popescu: the idea being that i announced a contest, haven't seen much in the way of submissions, ima award the 10 btc prize to alf for an implementation of a c-s derivative. ☟︎
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> well lessee here, one of mod6 ben_vulpes give an opinion on this ? << In relation to the contest? I'm good with Cramer-Shoup.
assbot: Access Agenda for All Libraries | Offices of the American Library Association ... ( http://bit.ly/1Qfs6Cs )
mircea_popescu: "Again, according to the parties’ submissions, such a submission is made despite the understanding communicated by the Tor Project that the Tor network has vulnerabilities and that users might not remain anonymous." o oops, forgot to say "according to information first, and to date only published on trilema, [...]".
mircea_popescu: what is this guy, a shoe ?
mircea_popescu: "In Forrester, the court clearly enunciated that: “Internet users have no expectation of privacy in …the IP address of the websites they visit because they should know that this information is provided to and used by Internet service providers for the specific purpose of directing the routing of information." <<< except the ip of the "website they used" has exactly nothing to do with anything.
mircea_popescu: available materials regarding the Tor network."
mircea_popescu: relationship between SEI and DOD, as well as directing the defendant to publicly
mircea_popescu: government’s disclosures included information regarding the funding and structure
mircea_popescu: "Among other items, the
assbot: Silk Road 2.0 Case Confirms FBI And CMU Tor Attack Collaboration : Bitcoin ... ( http://bit.ly/1Qz4nJ4 )
BingoBoingo: Most of the ads I've seen bundle water/sewer into the condo fee, but may be a regional quirk ☟︎
asciilifeform: modern buildouts typically have separate meters.
mircea_popescu: what they still do that in the states ?!
assbot: Anonimity, or the urban versus rural dispute. on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1LGCIoo )
asciilifeform: where was mircea_popescu's article on the countryside.
asciilifeform: i say this as statement of (afaik) fact, not judgement.
asciilifeform: no coast dweller, to first approximation, knows or gives so much as a spoonful of shit what happens in the places where one may meet with bulls.
asciilifeform: and the places where they can be seen, may as well be mars.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: realize that most u.s. folk have never even seen a bull, likely.
asciilifeform: but it is how usg leveraged its original tax collection powers to ... being what it is today.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> and in india you can see cows stopping traffic, as if important... << http://qntra.net/2015/11/bull-farmer-killed-in-shootout-while-protecting-life/
asciilifeform: this was practiced until a proper ban was passed (iirc 1950s) and the trick deemed no longer necessary.
asciilifeform: that it would not actually sell to anyone, for any price.
asciilifeform: usg theoretically demanded a tax stamp.
asciilifeform: for instance, for many years, possession of marijuana etc. was a ... tax offense.
asciilifeform: we have many fictions like this in usa.
asciilifeform: similarly to how the allodial title is with usg, who won't let it go.
asciilifeform: the mineral rights are with the city, or the original developer of the street, who won't part with them even for maxint.