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ascii_butugychag: see, modern us army is, among other things, a machine for making female brass
assbot: Logged on 05-02-2016 15:39:50; mats: a swinging dick would rather leave cover and drag a wounded woman to safety and treat her wounds than return fire
ascii_butugychag: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=05-02-2016#1397100 << EXACTLY what they want ☝︎
mats: killing the enemy is the first priority, always
mats: if your dumb ass gets shot, you're going to get ignored until its convenient for the unit to treat you
trinque: yeah, I can see that
mats: exactly the opposite of what you're supposed to do.
mats: a swinging dick would rather leave cover and drag a wounded woman to safety and treat her wounds than return fire ☟︎
trinque: why make ISIS come here for our women when we can just hand them over
trinque: mats: just the cancerous notion of equality working its way through
mats: when they are fucking ~mounted~
mats: what, people forgot modern combat loads are maiming a nontrivial percentage of dudes that deploy for nine months?
mats: I don't understand this push to get women into combat units
assbot: First woman in Tennessee to enlist as combat engineer goes AWOL ... ( http://bit.ly/1nRPcEF )
mircea_popescu: (and for the record, for they of anthropological curiosities - there's an entire cvasi-science in the notes of technicians running the early infrastructure of hte industrial revolution. it's a shocking if fascinating mix of all sorts of things.)
mircea_popescu: the whole field is essentially a commune of technicians trying to run a factory. because the last time they saw a scientist or an engineer they were about 5 and one visited the zoo.
mircea_popescu: could it be that the only way lowbrow pigborn with delusions of centrality and leadership could continue pretending like he has "a good handle" on things with his schemes derived on looseleaf papers, ever so similar in contents and consistency to the ever-genius schemes of the broke if consummate las vegas gambler, horse race expert etc ?
mircea_popescu: there's this very strong undercurrent of farmer mind fighting against the complexity of the world through denial and fetish worship, if you look at it. WHY must entirely banal approach be secret ? perhaps for the same exact reason children playing spontaneously errupt in "it's not fair like that", to fix the necessarily broken rules of the GAME they are playing so it's playable a little longer ?
mircea_popescu: then someone discovered every other year and they had to run around strongarming ibm and whatnot to not explain why the fuck the sboxen must be diddled just-so.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=05-02-2016#1397029 << understand, a fucking field where something as commonplace as differential cryptanalysis is "classified"... every SINGLE FUCKING PERSON of human composition to ever EVEN CONSIDER the matter came up with differential cryptanalisis within the fucking day. because what the everloving fuck. as a 10yo playing with 10yo girls i came up with it. just how fucking hard c ☝︎
mircea_popescu: ahh, such the reading list in log this morn. nice.
mircea_popescu: and to turdcherry the shitcake, all these nobodies on a stick run around spewing wholly delusional notions of expertise and amateurship. just don't ask them to put it to any sort of actual test.
assbot: Logged on 05-02-2016 13:16:34; asciilifeform: the triumph of 'ordinary science' as described by kuhn.
mircea_popescu: who exactly wants this ? other than fucking nsa, of course, as per usual. ("but mr goldstein, you SIGNED that child porn. whadda ya mean it's an automatic process you don't control.") ☟︎
mircea_popescu: "Every file you write in there is signed. There's no manual signing process, no taring or gzipping, no detached sigs. Instead, everything in this folder appears as plaintext files on everyone's computers. You can even open /keybase/public/yourname in your Finder or Explorer and drag things in."
mircea_popescu: i wish the idiot circuit would write their release document as to be meaningful to people rather than appealing to goats. da fuck am i going to read out of that windows950-esque screenshot other than "hey, windows 95!"
mircea_popescu: "Public, signed directories for everyone in the world You can now write data in a very special place: /keybase/public/yourname"
mircea_popescu: "Alpha releases of the Keybase app are starting to come with a cryptographically secure file mount. It is brand new. And very different." da fuck is this shit.
asciilifeform: mega-l0ltr0n, whole thing worth reading.
asciilifeform: 'it cost $300,000 per nuclear bomb to recall bombs to Pantex to remove and repair Sandia's failing semiconductor chips.'
asciilifeform: pitch that Crypto AG was a neutral company and its equipment was the best. They were Swiss, after all. [3] Crypto AG eventually paid one million dollars for Buehler's release in January 1993, then promptly fired him once they had reassured themselves that he hadn't revealed anything important under interrogation, and because Buehler had begun to ask some embarrassing questions.'
asciilifeform: 'Iran demonstrated its suspicion about the source of the leaks, when it arrested Hans Buehler, a top salesman for Crypto AG, in Teheran on March 18, 1992. During his nine and a half months of solitary confinement in Evin prison in Teheran, Buehler was questioned again and again whether he had leaked Teheran's codes or Libya's keys to Western powers. Luckily Buehler didn't know anything. He in fact believed in his own sales
asciilifeform: ^ re: the 'Benincasa's algorithm' thing.
asciilifeform: 'Without this technology our legal project would fail. The feds usually win. Let's see what happens.'
asciilifeform: or remand them to the court of the rubbish bin
asciilifeform: quite lulzy: schmuck spent years trying to put, e.g., Brzezinski, in jail
asciilifeform: actually thinks that usa runs, or ever did run, on laws! 'same for all' (tm) !
asciilifeform: ^ whole thing, for posterity.
asciilifeform: regards http://www.prosefights.org/nmlegal/dcvoid/dcvoid.htm#feehan3 http://www.alineshat.com/PDF/Nojeh-LawSuit-Doc.pdf My interests these day are in peak energy. Please check to see if my differentiation are correct or not! http://www.prosefights.org/pnmelectric/pnmelectric.htm#normaldistribution'
asciilifeform: yne%20Tutors%20RSA%20and%20NSA.htm While I was project leader of the missile secure cryptographic unit in the 1980, NSA cryptographer Brian Snow gave some of us Sandians a lecture on NSA crypto units. Snow showed actual devices and schematics. Snow also commented on field failures. NSA algoritms I saw were based on shift register and combinatoric algorithms.
assbot: 404 (Page Not Found) Error - Ever feel like you're in the wrong place? ... ( http://bit.ly/23NgCvP )
asciilifeform: Anonymous said... 'NSA began to remove public key crypto implementations from weapons in about 1991. Sandia cryptographer Gus Simmons suggested to NSA and Sandia that NSA replace the shift register-based Benincasa algorithm in the ctbt data authenticator with public key. I was ordered by my supervior, Dr John Holovka [chemist] to explain what Simmons was talking about. http://www.prosefights.org/nmlegal/mcconnell/pacer/Pa
asciilifeform: on the bright side, in the ancient comment threads, we find the inevitable articulate crackpot! :
asciilifeform: the triumph of 'ordinary science' as described by kuhn. ☟︎
asciilifeform: there is no 'provably hard' ~anything~ available, the WHOLE MOTHERFUCKING FIELD is, as far as the eye can see, pseudomathematical turdmeistery
asciilifeform: and found... the thing that koblitz describes
asciilifeform: i took an interest in 'provably hard' crypto
asciilifeform: the second time, just recently
asciilifeform: this hammer hit me in the face the first time around (as a young man, when i had notions of actually making a living in that field, and recoiled in disgust, having encountered something quite similar to what is described in tarver's and moldbug's essays)
asciilifeform: and, on the other side, the ludicrous, when seen from outside, deluge of pseudomathematical claptrap that now passes for 'computer science research'
asciilifeform: but koblitz attacked his meal ticket, yes
asciilifeform: back to koblitz thread, i actually met gasarch, he taught (still teaches??) at my old school
punkman: asciilifeform: a heathen perversion for each thing in tmsr. << which thing, g?
assbot: Logged on 20-09-2015 00:07:08; asciilifeform: (from the mega-classic http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2007/08/whats-wrong-with-cs-research.html )
asciilifeform: ^ mark tarver
assbot: Logged on 22-06-2014 17:22:35; asciilifeform: that many of the titles bear a striking resemblance to each other. "Adaptive Mesh Analysis" reads one and "An Adaptive Algorithm for Mesh Analysis" reads another. Dividing the total remaining by the average number of repetitions halves the list again. Mozart disappears before your very eyes.'
assbot: Logged on 05-02-2016 08:52:12; punkman: on this week's theme of provable crypto, here is Koblitz making derps all butthurt http://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2007/08/koblitz-controversy-reaction.html
asciilifeform: (there are at least two deliberately bastardized wots, for instance)
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=05-02-2016#1397004 << in keeping with the principle that there must eventually appear a heathen perversion for each thing in tmsr. ☝︎
assbot: Introducing the Keybase filesystem ... ( http://bit.ly/1TIsDhI )
assbot: in theory: 2007-08-26 ... ( http://bit.ly/1PEqnq7 )
assbot: Computational Complexity: The Koblitz Controversy: A reaction ... ( http://bit.ly/1PEqphu )
punkman: on this week's theme of provable crypto, here is Koblitz making derps all butthurt http://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2007/08/koblitz-controversy-reaction.html ☟︎
trinque: maybe consider regrinding and resubmitting that one
trinque: big thanks to funkenstein for his importprivkey backport patch
trinque: perhaps after shiva has destroyed the old world and created a new one
ben_vulpes: having expectations of the poor turd
ben_vulpes: i see you over there
trinque: still working on the upload step, which may require altering or adding an RPC. gettransaction just tells number of confirmations, not what blockheight that was, and it's not as though I can call two RPC transactionally
trinque: deedbot- can again happily fart transactions (into trb!!)
mircea_popescu: and in today's weird news, http://40.media.tumblr.com/8ddb5134dc3201052535413fe1ba7b9a/tumblr_nqo8kxUL3I1s3qr6wo1_1280.jpg
mircea_popescu: no place exists other than in the imagination ; and some imaginations really dun matter. for all anyone cares we live on fucking buyan
assbot: Logged on 05-02-2016 03:24:56; asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=04-02-2016#1396843 << tmsr is not a place! or what, freemasons were also a place ?
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=05-02-2016#1396934 << in what sense is "veneta" a place, and for that matter what is "place" mean today ? i don't live in fucking "argentina", the byproduct of the inept hallucination of a bunch of retarded soy farmers. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=05-02-2016#1396932 << in was in the snowden pile. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: i love local color items like that.
mircea_popescu: Formal neste artigo todo não significa “papelada” ou burocracia, mas se refere à formalidade matemática, aquela evidência que pode ser matematicamente comprovada (através de assinaturas digitais criptográficas, por exemplo). << :D
felipelalli: (I have to go now, I'll read the feedback later, if any) good bye! :)
felipelalli: mircea_popescu, thank you to being the main source of this article! Thanks to have produced good contents about the subject.
danielpbarron: >> A couple of kettles served them well for many years, but when rust finally overcame them, the only replacements they could fashion came from birch bark. << /me thinks of leaky treebark flasks
assbot: Logged on 05-02-2016 02:50:54; asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 's-boxes' etc are the voodoo paraphernalia of the block-ciphration field, which was from its very beginning and to this day 100% hokum
felipelalli: I had to learn that when I was living in Australia! :)
felipelalli: or "you're beautiful", something like that
felipelalli: sorry about the Portuguese
felipelalli: (I hope translate it to English in future)
felipelalli: New article about the importance of Bitcoin OTC WoT: https://yeppudaproductions.wordpress.com/2016/02/05/a-importancia-do-bitcoin-otc-wot/ - have fun! :)
assbot: Practical spring planting on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1T1AZ4u )
BingoBoingo: On the things classic trilema links to http://www.wngd.org/
asciilifeform: i would like to move to the past, but i do not have the correct waistcoat, it seems.
assbot: Logged on 04-02-2016 23:40:10; kakobrekla: and where do they want to live, in the past where all the cool beans are? ☟︎
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=04-02-2016#1396844 << actually yes ! note how mircea_popescu successfully lives there! (he carries a portable timewarp generator, it is in his waistcoat) ☝︎
asciilifeform: until then it is a thing-other-than-a-place.
assbot: Logged on 04-02-2016 23:34:43; mircea_popescu: ascii_butugychag> how many us folk realize that usa was mega-power in mid-20th ~because~ it was a place where folks like ulam wanted to live ? >> this is what i've been saying re tmsr for a while nao. finally dawned ?
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=04-02-2016#1396843 << tmsr is not a place! or what, freemasons were also a place ? ☝︎☟︎
asciilifeform: only the cobwebbed recesses of my cranium.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Got a good link on Mozilla selling their vulns?
asciilifeform: 'new' that is. circa '08.
asciilifeform: mozilla is ~ as interesting at this point as ms exploder.
BingoBoingo: But seriously lolz on Bugzilla: "It seems that eventually by fixing this non-bug a REAL BUG has now been created: forcing the ASK_BEFORE_ACCEPT like ACCEPT_NORMALLY (see comment 19 above by M Hamdy) results in allowing, e.g., google.com to install a cookie even if google.com is set to be blocked in the list of exceptions."
BingoBoingo: Turd gets eaten by clover, dies forever when eaten by bunny. Dies forever when eaten by hunter. Bunny becomes turd. repeat