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nubbins`: the korean term for this is literally translated
as "smelling sesame oil"
nubbins`: mircea_popescu my heart empathetically raced
as i imagined the empty pit of despair engulfing him at the moment of re-arrest
mircea_popescu: the irony of the situation being that the soviets weren't nearly
as impressed by the significantly more powerful soviet state.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform some sillyness about how some derp prankcalled an unnamed silicon manufacturer, pretended to be a secret agency so secret not even the name is known, asked for a spec on an unspecified cpu packaging other than "it must be just like irl ones" and received a 100k firm bid on the phone
as long
as he provides "his ip"
maqp: The site uses nsa.gov
as a source. If you can disprove their claims, it should make quite a scandal
mircea_popescu: yes, that's kinda the point of b-a. it t-bones with standard * discourse so badly,
as you put it.
mircea_popescu:
as far
as i see that's pseudosecurity. security is and always has been about being secure.
mircea_popescu:
as far
as anyone who wasn't there is concerned, this may
as well be a fabrication altogether. and so on.
mircea_popescu: the information you receive is only
as good
as the trustworthyness of your peers.
mircea_popescu: no, they philosophically have no business there. once you've decided to settle down and reproduce, you've by that token accepted the world
as is, declared your own submission to it and all that.
maqp: "URC can be
as private and secure
as military systems"
mircea_popescu: that was my point : that if he was going to barf over tor, which doesn't actually matter or significantly touch the scheme, might
as well pick any other random unrelated item
assbot: You rated user thomas_d on 24-Nov-2014, with a rating of 1, and supplied these additional notes: plays on seals
as thomas_dick.
maqp: Snowden hinted something about using cascading at Harvard Privacy Synopsium when he was talking with Schneier. Schneier disagreed but it left me wondering whether Snowden's tongue slipped. Cascading was agreed
as a good practice in the Schneier's Friday squid blog so I had a go
mircea_popescu:
as the saying goes, #b-a presence counts for 30 iq points.
mircea_popescu:
as long
as you do what's expected of you - no case can be brought.
maqp: having to say "upper case B, lower case c".. is almost
as bad
as the one used in Telegram
ben_vulpes: i don't intend this
as an attack on mthreat, trying only to tease out the logic.
mircea_popescu: my thinking, vague
as i admit it may be, is that if the guy's service is running, the guy is ok.
maqp: That could work of course, base58 might be better
as there's less similar looking chars
maqp: So anyway,
as far
as the TFC goes, NaCl is the first one to provide practical public key crypto
maqp:
As far
as it goes with cast iron list, it remains to be seen who's now closer to "terrorists"
assbot: Logged on 07-02-2016 18:49:44; mircea_popescu: "In 2006, he started the CAPSoff campaign to reform the keyboard, starting with the removal of the Caps Lock key. He described this campaign
as an example of an online campaign conducted entirely using free services like Wikidot and Google groups. Some new keyboards are starting to drop the Caps Lock key. In September 2006, he launched the "Million Dollar Keyboard" competition for the best keyboard d
assbot: Logged on 07-02-2016 18:49:44; mircea_popescu: "In 2006, he started the CAPSoff campaign to reform the keyboard, starting with the removal of the Caps Lock key. He described this campaign
as an example of an online campaign conducted entirely using free services like Wikidot and Google groups. Some new keyboards are starting to drop the Caps Lock key. In September 2006, he launched the "Million Dollar Keyboard" competition for the best keyboard d
mircea_popescu: "In 2006, he started the CAPSoff campaign to reform the keyboard, starting with the removal of the Caps Lock key. He described this campaign
as an example of an online campaign conducted entirely using free services like Wikidot and Google groups. Some new keyboards are starting to drop the Caps Lock key. In September 2006, he launched the "Million Dollar Keyboard" competition for the best keyboard design to do away wi
☟︎☟︎ ascii_rear: phf : open your cltl2, it sure
as hell is there
mircea_popescu: no but he has a point : if you're going to throw up might
as well because "pidgin"
phf:
as far
as what it does i hope formatting in the paste above makes it more readable. for each line that starts with --- or +++ awk extract the filename and runs shasum on the file, then prints the new diff line with shasum included. for other files it just outputs whatever's there. so it's a filter that transforms mentions of diff'ed files into diffed files + checksum
mircea_popescu: guy sounds like a competent lawyer. (and yes, contrary to the view commonly held by people who have no idea, there exists such a thing
as competent lawyers, it's an intellectual field like any other and just
as capable to contain "lovely gems and brilliant coups"
as the field of mel is.)
mircea_popescu: this is not a bad idea, is it! imagine if all conversation between dudes was either absent (such
as is traditionally in westerns and other tough-man stuff in the style) or otherwise entirely about "booze bitches blunts"
as in the usual dudefare.
adlai: infuriatingly enough, `C-c C-d h` does not work for loop keywords such
as the for-=-then clause
adlai: np. and yes: SaslServ (SaslServ@services.): liead!~adlie@unaffiliated/adlai has just authenticated
as you (Adlai)
ben_vulpes: adlai: a) i am annoyed that someone has coopted your 3 letters of tab completion and never says anything in here b) monthly averages and standard deviations of transaction fees
as percentage of total miner subsidy would be far more informative
ben_vulpes: "In Washington, the committee is known
as the ATM, because banks and hedge funds shower the chairman with contributions."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform otp bias cheifly doesn't matter here,
as the same otp is delibverately used for both messages.
mircea_popescu: you can make
as many otps
as you want, it's still coming out the same way o.O
danielpbarron: if it works
as a board game it probably works on a touch screen, is probably a good general rule
mircea_popescu: now, those 4 cases out of 8 of "10" have equal chances to meet 00, 01, 10, and 11.
as a result you will see :
mircea_popescu: let's work with a very simple example. suppose we use two bits, and suppose the plaintext is
as follows : 00 appears 1 case out of 8 ; 01 appears 2 cases out of 8 ; 10 appears 4 cases out of 8 and 11 appears one case out of 8. 1+1+2+4=8.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> was also a penguin linked here recently, same idea. << Problem of using block cipher
as code book
mircea_popescu: and yes
as noted by alf the "pill" for this fundamental problem is to make sure that message length stays well under statistical sample.
mircea_popescu: the necessary result is (different items have same varying, known probabilities to appear
as in the plaintext)
mircea_popescu: i will then proceed to count the
As and the Ws and break your thing to a large degree.
BingoBoingo: otp implementation is
as good
as your random
mircea_popescu: mod6 ah. well... negotiable insturment, you know. everyone values it
as he values it. there's not exactly a dearth of offerings - notably the reward to prove qmail is buggy was 500. knuth's rewards are a dollar and change., etc
ben_vulpes: and the need to share the key does not impose the same operational considerations
as otp?
mircea_popescu:
as we agreed, cramer-shoup with shared key is acceptable symmetric cipher.
assbot: Logged on 23-01-2016 15:35:48; asciilifeform: problem is that one doesn't get to 'make a name' in academe
as 'cryptographer' by pushing rsa.
mircea_popescu: i can only speak here to clarify certain misgivings about my friend. or i will violate the publication ban
as it all links together."
mircea_popescu: and i barely see the point of this discussion
as we are not allowed by operation of law to discuss many relevant points to the story. i think you could discuss much without including any name. but it does not show the why of allan filing and trying the way he does. if i was him i would have no faith in the courts at all.
mircea_popescu: "i can only say so much for a few reasons. first allan is my friend. we dont agree on many points but this does not mean i care to make any assumptions about his beliefs on law and governance or his personal life. second there is a publication ban on things which i hold first hand knowledge of. i belive those cases were sealed
as a cover up of what actually went on. there is nothing anyone will write here that will cha
mircea_popescu: sorta like in the early colonies it was ok to say "tomatoes are poisonous" and nobody was supposed to notice that "Eating off lead plates because you wanna be
as cool
as the europeans eating off silver but are poor and stupid is still a bad plan".
mircea_popescu: "agreed. i like allan
as a friend. to meet him you would probably like him too. he isnt nuts in general like many are. i have sat in on a few court dates that cant be brought up on here. allan and his family got shafted. that put al in a hard spot and drove his theories to what we have now. there was no reason for his kids to be taken. if there was i would gladly say so. in a way the courts created allan the vexatious.
danielpbarron: it probably suffers from the same problem
as catan : bad rng
mircea_popescu: "why the fuck send the whores there so you make most of the money and still bitch about it ? instead come here, pay 10x
as much and we keep it all"
mircea_popescu: in vaguely related lulz : romanian women are sane ;
as a result they're all over europe fucking the shit out of everything that moves ;
as a result butthurt euroheads don't want to extend schengen zone to romania unless it "controils the problem" ;
assbot: Logged on 06-02-2016 12:52:40; BingoBoingo: "The decision comes
as the NCAA continues to investigate Katina Powell’s claims that she and other escorts were paid thousands of dollars and given game tickets by former basketball staffer Andre McGee in exchange for dancing for and having sex with U of L players and recruits from 2010-14. The NCAA could still levy further sanctions on U of L in addition to the self-imposed penalty, but university pres
mircea_popescu: "After more than 20 years
as an electronics engineer, Pete Edwards reached the low six-figure pay level. Now,
as he looks for a job following a layoff, he finds that salary success a burden."
mircea_popescu: quoted here because my spamthing identified it
as legit, and i had do to a triple taker and im STILL not convinced this is not a spam script.
mircea_popescu:
as social media and general laziness drove the cost of producing tv shows why the fuck up, forcing ever present decreases in quality,
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: South Park's "Stick of Truth" pretty much set the bar for interactive TV sold
as game
assbot: Logged on 06-02-2016 13:51:36; pete_d_out: " In the latest move, AMD unveiled its FirePro S-Series GPUs that include the company's hardware-virtualization GPU architecture, Multiuser GPU (MxGPU). The technology is aimed at such segments
as virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), remote workstations, cloud gaming and cloud computing." << is cloud gaming a thing now ? i thought it was all ipad gaming.
assbot: Logged on 03-08-2015 17:23:51; ascii_field: gernika: for the record, i once tried to get 'blue collar' work, and failed. turned away, 'overqualified, you'll leave
as soon
as you can'
BingoBoingo: If going 2008 vintage might
as well make sure you get ECC and x64 that works with everything on the board
pete_d_out:
as if the nonexistent demand for counterstrike on an ipad is such a market driver
pete_d_out: " In the latest move, AMD unveiled its FirePro S-Series GPUs that include the company's hardware-virtualization GPU architecture, Multiuser GPU (MxGPU). The technology is aimed at such segments
as virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), remote workstations, cloud gaming and cloud computing." << is cloud gaming a thing now ? i thought it was all ipad gaming.
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 04-02-2016 20:43:37; ascii_butugychag: or the one who came by my old office disguised
as 'friendly neighbour, retired blahblahblah'
BingoBoingo: This one seems to be just about
as improbably
as the money on BitBet demonstrates, and I'm really liking the money I put on "Yes" before he got injured.
BingoBoingo: Well, the bet is if he lives up to the hype. Doing that for a career? Ridiculous. For 29-30 games perfectly possible if improbable
as reflected by the BitBet odds