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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.
mircea_popescu: so whenbever he was putting dough into something dubious he really wanted to succeed, he used the former pile for it.
mircea_popescu: because he believed the latter is much more likely to "go" to similar "business"
mircea_popescu: he meticulously avoided mixing "earned" moneys with "bezzled" moneys
mircea_popescu: i knew a guy like this, was hysterical. had a bookie biz, old skinny guy, megasmoker, huge glasses
mircea_popescu: he probably paid some debts, got a coupla girls for a long weekend and that was it.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo actually, i suspect you're right. there may be two of them, an old sculptor guy and a teeny pictor.
mircea_popescu: i didn't get to read it yet, because well... i got this endless list of reports to look through yet.
mircea_popescu: anyone feeling like building a db of name frequency in romania can simply wget and grep and awk that.
mircea_popescu: ;;google site:trilema.com rezultate la bacalaureat sesiunea
mircea_popescu: romania uses a bacalaureat thing, you're not an adult until you pass this exam,. coupla years ago the romanian ed ministry refused (cause inept) to publish the list of results online. and so some people hacked their db and i published the results.
mircea_popescu: keonne actually, here's a story followed by fun trick :
mircea_popescu: the first name isn't quite keonne, but it's a sort of hm.
mircea_popescu: this is why bitcoin will rule all fiat : those people can't even keep up with the obvious conspiraci theories.
mircea_popescu: tbh im kinda surprised teh tradepress isn't howling all about "in january, 'Bitcoin Baron Keeps a Secretive Open Source OS Alive' ; in april, nsa's crown jool is thrown in the dirt of the public space."
☟︎ mircea_popescu: but yeah, the jims and johns of this world will need cuneiform or w/e
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo keonne i must admit tho, it's two hours' work on my part and years on the part of mr cody, the folklorist that collected my base material.
mircea_popescu: you know, i was kinda rooting for the tramp stamp to become rfid govt id.
mircea_popescu: so talk to whoever's in charge of doing these things there, and have him give you something that's both a) a good answer and b) that they can make public.
mircea_popescu: dja understand what i mean ? it's not just some random attack, it's any and all attacks this creates undue vulenrability to.
mircea_popescu: keonne point is : if block signatures and block contents aren't checked against each other, your design is incredibly weak.
mircea_popescu: it got a few people, myself included, raising eyebrows