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mircea_popescu: decimation kind-of explains why he was so butthurt when bitcoin showed up.
mircea_popescu: engadget figures the way to do reporting is putting 6 links in two paragraphs, all leading to engadget.com
mircea_popescu: there's a diff eeprom for the symetric key, these are physically separate for reasons etc
mircea_popescu: and other features generally make it improbable a key will be lost. but this level of specific detail is to be you know, put up once the product actually goes for order
mircea_popescu: anyway, decimation : there will be a single key storage eeprom, but the key itself is written quite redundantly on it,
mircea_popescu: (incidentally... without mihail kogalniceanu the afghanistan retreat isn't even all that possible)
mircea_popescu: you mean the only country which has a military base which allows the us some sort of semblance of relevancy in the black sea ?
mircea_popescu: "hello sir, we're mailmen. please step out of the car"
mircea_popescu: more likely future, people will start being arrested by the cable company over there.
mircea_popescu: it's really shocking to me that i have to explain the basics of law to people writing news o.O
mircea_popescu: LordPutin: what ilearned from thiswhole trendon shavers deposition is that youneed to have a good online username like "mymothersasshole" or something...."So you spoke with my mothers asshole on the 10th of Jan last year, is thatcorrect?" << lol
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla seriously, "september 11 TYPE OF EVENTS" << yeah, it's a term of art :D
mircea_popescu: perhaps not as often as is the case in romania, but definitely a lot more often than is the case in russia or w/e
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know, such things happen. contrary to what the general public perceives of the government, it does tell itself to go pack sand all the time.
mircea_popescu: go hunt down the comissioners and ask them pointed q's about exactly this.
mircea_popescu: well ok, but that'd have been a prime spot to crack the story you know ?
mircea_popescu: as far as i know this matter has been discussed in their comission already, and they're working towards a decision
☟︎ mircea_popescu: g_forcewinds well, yes, but they do have the help of the fed and gao already making similar determinations.
mircea_popescu: there's a lot of difference between trading oranges and trading monopoly money.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there's a major difference there too. the grain case (and the oranges cove case which is used to teach kids about the sec) all discuss actual items of value.
mircea_popescu: that aside : what makes you judge we're talking about "A bunch of impossible" ?
mircea_popescu: that "and" doesn't work. i didn't question anything, i asked them the traditional quo warranto.
mircea_popescu: either way, i'm not denying or arguing or anything else. someone calls you on the phone, you ask "who is this"
mircea_popescu: i wouldn't presume to tell them how to be authoritative, i imagine they have lawyers that can sort it out.
mircea_popescu: i indicated to them that they have to make this choice, and how to go about being friends.
mircea_popescu: the sec couldn't decide if it wants to be friends or it wants to be an authority.
mircea_popescu: it works the other way around : i don't argue the negative, they make the statements that establish the positive.
mircea_popescu: that's not how laws work. i don't declare that i broke no laws, and i don't contest the authority of some random person making demands.
mircea_popescu: some guy wanted me how do i know i didn't break any laws.
mircea_popescu: well actually, it's a fundamental issue of law which somehow seems lost on the journalistic profession
mircea_popescu: there's an important difference here, i am in no position to dispute anything yet.
mircea_popescu: so one thing is that i didn't dispute the legality of the sec's request, i asked them to establish it.
mircea_popescu: since i missed the chance back when slashdot linked it
mircea_popescu: Duffer1 no, im referring to a bunch of news outlets linking it
mircea_popescu: well, i guess there's going to be a steady stream of journo people coming in here these days
mircea_popescu: whoa, gawker ? mp in gawker ? what has this world come to.
mircea_popescu: no wonder the doj is claiming prism has full support from the usg-controlled corps a la google yahoo etc
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves pretty incredible shit. so microsoft is playing nsa nao ?
mircea_popescu: one's a dinky disqus-equivalent owned by conde nast. the other's a facebook-wannabe still in the cool vc phase.
mircea_popescu: twitter love, reddit hate. it's like the interwebs autobalance.
mircea_popescu: "Whenever some new and insightful piece of #bitcoin writing appears, I now automatically look for connection to @Mircea_Popescu"
mircea_popescu: how to make bombs out of dogshit. pictures of nanci pelosi doing her dog
mircea_popescu: tho... "just 19.95 a week and you can download all the secret documents you care to.
mircea_popescu: i guess it doens't work cause you'd have to have a paywall.