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mircea_popescu: anyway, if you're looking for more of a perspective thing : this is without a doubt the largest vulnerability ever reported in the history of vulnerabilities.
mircea_popescu: if you get the server's keys you can a)impersonate the server and b) decrypt all its traffic, thaty you previously stored.
mircea_popescu: actually my baguette has some charcoal embedded in it ;/
mircea_popescu: nothing has a negative effect on your health in moderate amts.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, as kman says, props for not being a butthurt bitch.
mircea_popescu: i did notice it. i discarded it, too, cause who the hell is giving you a fiat loan.
mircea_popescu: he did not, no. mostly because nobody in btc would accept such a deal.
mircea_popescu: he got really buttreamed, but he did pay off afaik, and one of the few to do so.
mircea_popescu: you know there's a guy who tried this in 2012 for similar reasons ?
mircea_popescu: i dun know brejnev was all that bad, economically at least.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: Litecoin miners want all asics to die. The want to only mine when not playing starcraft and mining wow gold.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell bitcoinpete and so they want to just keep changing the algos and dream on.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell bitcoinpete it's even been announced, some fork. basically they want to fork it because htey perceive they should be given more of this world than the ycan take by themselves, for themselves, and they perceive it's unfair that just as soon as an algo of division is established, better people get more than them.
mircea_popescu: bitcoinpete: and how is doge still even around? first teh nascar, now this merged-mining noise << it's only "still around" in the sense of noise. like you know, the dead aren't really dead if you remember them :D
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo it was obviously a jab at a roomfull of potheads telling the sober guy that "he doesn't understand how the pretty colors work"
mircea_popescu: this sounds like the fucking pleistocene all oer again.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, i wonder what % of the us agency agents are actually drug free. not pretend-free, not pass the test free, but actually, as a lifestyle.
mircea_popescu: i guess may account for why putin "doens't understand how the world works".
mircea_popescu: "it was found" derp. i dunno wtf land of the free you live in, i went to scvhool in communist romania. yet a teacher'd not have dared go through your bag.
mircea_popescu: then people wonder why and wherefore it's game over. well who the fuck would want to play with you!?
mircea_popescu: so basically the ad baculum argument reduces to "he knew we have the stick, therefore he should get the stick"
mircea_popescu: "We would never strike a student and whether the software is pirated or not is not the issue. He denied having the drive which means he knew he shouldn't have it here then it was found in his bag so I feel the punishment is suitable."
mircea_popescu: then the people who think try and insulate themselves, and this is how thinking became a crime in the us
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell ThickAsThieves of course you don't use tor unless you're doing something illegal. EVERYTHING YOU CAN DO IS ILLEGAL!
mircea_popescu: sadly these idiots have gotten it to where i can't send you a bottle.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i should send you a bottle of this here cognac
mircea_popescu: it's a thing tho. your average "man's rights" dood on a forum somewhere is only happy in an "unhappy" marriage.
mircea_popescu: they WANT to scroll past the text in order to get to feel bad about how they're not reading it.
mircea_popescu: bounce you have to understand the us mentality, as aptly described by al pacino in devil's advocate.
mircea_popescu: yet i suspect we're getting to a point where it's actually becoming false, and nobody has the oversight to call it.
mircea_popescu: bounce the traditional wisdom used to be that (booklength spec + half line user manual) beats (one page spc + one page user manual), because you do the book once and then the millions of users are saved a million pages.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform more than semiconductor chemistry i'd say. lynn conway wasn't 40 years ago was she ?
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: So... what Open source alternatives are there to OpenSSL which aren't as much of a bitch to read? << this is actually a very large, and very open problem.
mircea_popescu: i mean, sure slashdot sucks today, but one day it was a big thing. meanwhile 9gag or baumwhatever never were big things
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i would hope to not be as senile as ted turner was in 10 years.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform punkman that is a car that was sideswiped into a pole by a large truck.
mircea_popescu: "decimation: the other problem the SEC has is that thier lawyers are at best 'C' league compared to Goldman's army" << forget goldman. their alleged senior counsel fared very poorly when compared to mpex' lawyers.
mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic at the very least as an interim install a gpg-based method for peole to verify your certs.
mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic don't you just love this cert business as implemented.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller: there should be a gpg encrypted bitcoin illuminati forum<< once this chan goes +m it'll pretty much be it i guess.
mircea_popescu: keonne for one thing, his entire operation was fully illegal from all povs.
mircea_popescu: well perhaps so far gone beyond nutty it wraps back again into smart, who knows.