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phf: is
this another one of
those
technical solutions for counterparty problem?
ascii_field: kakobrekla: hypothetical device in question is a small sphere,
the size of golf ball
kakobrekla: much better results are obtained with
taking more less wide shots + stitching
ascii_field: epoxy 'potting' went out of fashion in '70s for
this reason.
ascii_field: and at any rate will add parasitic capacitance
to mb
traces.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: board will not function.
thermoconductive epoxy is electroconductive.
ascii_field: camera is expensive, compared
to doing nothing. cheap compared
to sending men on airplanes.
mircea_popescu: im not spending 50k in fisheye
to be able
to make a
ten cent report.
ascii_field: if
they are molested or missing - you know
the crate was.
ascii_field: cameraball is a hypothetical device consisting of sealed pyrex sphere with
two fish-eye cameras inside. charged and addressed via induction coil. contains a certain amount of eeprom, signs each frame with rsa key, which is zeroed if
the glass is penetrated.
mircea_popescu: (something he's more
than willing
to do - hey, needs more budget)
mircea_popescu: the point is
to entice
the enemy into spending his shirt.
mircea_popescu: the point is not
to protect who knows what secrets
that shouldn't be
there anyway.
mircea_popescu: this sort of
thing. costs nothing
to do, completely blows minds on
the other side.
ascii_field: but
there is no reason anyone should be able
to get inside
the box without
triggering
the scram.
mircea_popescu: like, physically cut
the races for impi or w/e bullshit.\
mircea_popescu: more importantly, how about some basic skuldulgery on
the boards ?
ascii_field: still stuck with
the misery of moving from host
to host.
ascii_field: at any rate,
the procedure i suggested is only half a solution. because it merely helps
to establish
the fact of
the betrayal ('caught man-sized figure moving near cabinet, power lost in 3 seconds'; 'chassis lost power for 10 minutes, moves
three metres' etc)
mircea_popescu: as a last ditch before going "fuck
this shit, all our
things are
to be held on zombie computers"
mircea_popescu: basically,
trying rto sound out a sort of "b-a best practices hardware server upbringing"
ascii_field: because fedex is an invitation
to hitler's can opener
ascii_field: process, much as i am loathe
to admit it, would have
to involve an airplane and a
trip
to some godforsaken pesthole.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: what would it cost
to house it in physical plant you actually own ?
mircea_popescu: so
the correct approach here would be for coloing boxes you personaly doctor and fedex
to location ?
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: and
to
think, we could have carried on 'thinking we have a server' if phuctor had found nothing.
mircea_popescu: seems a little
twisting
the screw is in order. fine. how do we go about it ?
mircea_popescu: it
turns out
that
this is not
true : "commodified market" actually means
that
there is no market - you can either not have a server and
think you don't have a server ; or else not have a server and
think you have a server.
those
two, no
third and sure as fuck no having servers.
mircea_popescu: so we decided more or less on a lark
to phuctor/s.nsa server. on
the general expectation
that hey, "commodified market" means you get stuff and it works and forget about it.
mircea_popescu: let's go at it
the other way. first, historical recount :
mircea_popescu: this happens
to be
THE definition of runaway complexity.
mircea_popescu: is
this pretty much an exercise in runaway complexity ?
ascii_field: ideally, you carry it
to its resting place and arm
the motion sensor personally.
ascii_field: (configure
the box, weld, deliver
to pedestal)
ascii_field: one
traditional method is
the spot-welder school of
thought.
mircea_popescu: how do you personally set up servers other
than in physical proximity ?
ascii_field: i can't recall
the last
time i ssh'd
to something which i did not either set up personally or know
the keeper of in meatspace.
mircea_popescu: my browser is also a very configurable animal, and
the configuration mostly results in blank pages and "your site can't be used" emails.
mircea_popescu: but you're still going
to use what
the server can use.
ascii_field: and,
to
the extent it is used as popularly imagined ('two parties with no prior relation') easily mitmable and impossible
to use as intended even in principle.
assbot: Logged on 15-10-2015 15:55:25; mircea_popescu: ematicians and
the practitioners: an adversary can perform a single enormous computation
to “crack” a particular prime,
then easily break any individual connection
that uses
that prime."
mircea_popescu: and now even cars are
too much for
the socialist derp
to afford. so make way for
the much "better" bike!
mircea_popescu: hitler didn't want
to go for
this so
they invaded germany
to saddam hussein him.
mircea_popescu: iirc
they had flying cars in
the 20s, but
then
the socialists wanted
to supress
them and pretend like
the street going car is
the
thing
to get because
that was all you can afford.
mircea_popescu: in other b-a news : world infrastructure is shit. in all respects, at every
turn, everything.
assbot: The Philippines Is Still Pissed Off
That Canada Is Using It as a Giant Garbage Bin | VICE | United States ... (
http://bit.ly/1OFrrcb )
mircea_popescu: i guess we get
to find out how american europeans are
these days
ascii_field: or does fr refuse citizens
the sacred freedom
to pollute ?
davout: apparently
that's
the plan
assbot: Logged on 30-01-2015 17:27:51; mircea_popescu: oo-weak-to-try rapists want
to be anonymous. Smart women write clickable articles about
their sexuality for nothing, because what good are you if you can't make someone else money? Interesting
to observe
that
the article's single suggested solution
to cyberharassment is
to reframe a criminal problem into a civil rights issue using a logic so preposterously adolescent
that if you laid
this on your Dad
mircea_popescu: anyway. im done with spamming ballas before i end up with his entire collected works in
the log.
mircea_popescu: 'd backhand slap you right out of
the glee club: "it discourages women from writing and earning a living online." Earning a living? From who, Gawker? Most of
the women writing on
the internet are writing for someone else who pays
them next
to nothing.
mircea_popescu: o-weak-to-try rapists want
to be anonymous. Smart women write clickable articles about
their sexuality for nothing, because what good are you if you can't make someone else money? Interesting
to observe
that
the article's single suggested solution
to cyberharassment is
to reframe a criminal problem into a civil rights issue using a logic so preposterously adolescent
that if you laid
this on your Dad when you were 16 he
mircea_popescu: If Hess has made you wonder, hmm, maybe unrestricted anonymity is bad because it gives
trolls
too much power,
then
the system has successfully used her for its
true purpose: brand it as bad,
to you. She is unwittingly
teaching
the demo of
this article, e.g. women in
their 20s with no actual power looking
to establish
themselves, who are
the very people who should embrace anonymity, not
to want
this: only rapists and
to
shinohai: davout One of
teh best movies evah
mircea_popescu: and
THEN
they wanna be all "successful", or perceived as such, because hey, of
the 5000 of
them, one's necessarily gonna dribble in
the general direction of future events by sheer happenstance -
that's your successful dude!11
mircea_popescu: the funny
thing about "groups advocating influentially in media
they don't own or control" is
that
the famelic good for nothing hipsters propose
that
THIS IS
THE RIGHT WAY. ie, being someone's cockpuppet is somehow worthy, whereas if
trump writes "fuck you" in his own fucking magazine,
that's somehow "not fair" and you know, of "lesser value".
mircea_popescu: your feelings-- but because criticism makes women want
to be more private-- and
the privacy of
the women is bad.
The women have
to be online,
they do most of
the clicking and receive most of
the clicks. Anonymous cyberbullying is a barrier
to increasing consumption, it's gotta go."
mircea_popescu: Keeping in mind
that actual stalking has never been dealt with in any significant way ever,
the desire of a few female writers
to curb online anonymity wouldn't be enough
to get an @ mention, except
that
this happens
to coincide with what
the media wants, and now we have
the
two vectors summing
to form a public health crisis. "Cyberbullying is a huge problem!" Yes, but not because it is hurtful, HA! no one cares about
mircea_popescu: nny Carcosa. On occasion what
the activists
think
they want may happen coincidentally
to align with what
the system wants, and from
that moment on
they will be lead
to believe
they are making a difference, which means
they're making money for someone else.
mircea_popescu: "The force for
this change isn't coming from safety or ethics. Neither is it activism. If you see any group advocating influentially for change in a media
they don't own or control, you can double down and split
the 10s,
the dealer is holding status and quo. No change is possible on someone else's dime, and if what looks like a supermodel approaches you with a microphone and a camera crew, you should run like she's Joh
mike_c: they do, and
the oil is annoying, but it doesn't smell as bad.
ascii_field: mike_c: cars (at least as seen in usa) ~do~ shit on
the street
mircea_popescu: mike_c it's kinda good if you
think about it. ma-nure. ma, which is good...
mike_c: ascii_field: bicycles don't crap in
the street.
mircea_popescu: nice wide sidewalks, and
the biking nonsense is mostly in palermo (fucktard/ustard/libtard ghetto, where
the diners have no service and
the girls no sense of
the cock.)
mircea_popescu: anyway, i must confess in
this respect ba is very mp-conformant.
mircea_popescu: fuck
the whole lot of
them, but if im running into bikers on
the sidewalk ima get hteir heads.