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asciilifeform: just takes time.
decimation: you can make it yourself I think
asciilifeform: to tie the two subjects together, it is very difficult for the amateur ic decapping enthusiast to buy hno3.
decimation: yeah it's just too expensive to make lots of masks
asciilifeform: mats: at this point it is rare for a commercial ic ~not~ to have functionality antifused out depending on product 'grade'
asciilifeform: when i was a student at 'nih', the story went that 'there was no serious bureaucracy surrounding lab waste until the p32-in-the-water-cooler incident'
decimation: asciilifeform: like cesium for radiation therapy
decimation: it's lead ingestion that's th eproblem
asciilifeform: anyway the traditional narrative re: 'dirty bombz' is that the builder would use short-lived, highly-energetic isotopes, of the kind shipped out to specially-designated junkyards by the tonne from your local biotech zone
asciilifeform: decimation: sorta like the notion that lead smelter in your back yard is no problem, because lead is found in the earth anyway
decimation: plenty of places in the us have U just laying around in the ground ☟︎
asciilifeform: mats: absolute sop. this practice dates back to at least the '486 sx'
decimation: asciilifeform: what strikes me as stupid about the 'dirty bomb' idea is that background radiation naturally varies
asciilifeform wonders if mircea_popescu's shockwave sensor gadget (see old thread) has a dial mark for 'nuke'
assbot: Logged on 02-07-2015 03:19:44; mats: and you'd not be able to hide rad signatures from anybody bothering to look, i would think
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=02-07-2015#1183998 << author argues (in piece linked above) that the 'dirty bomb' meme was a fiction crafted as a pill against just this. ☝︎
asciilifeform: ems set to face the unbridled wrath of large numbers of citizens for many years to come.'
asciilifeform: '... On the available evidence it seems the aspirations of a small arrogant bunch of men who decided to impose a "New World Order'" on a host of very unwilling small sovereign nations, did not think the exercise through to its perhaps inevitable conclusion. Those same arrogant men have placed tens of millions of citizens at risk because of their own gross incompetence and thirst for absolute power. The "New World Order" now se
asciilifeform: uried in advance. Forget the "garbage truck", which was merely a decoy device. The crater is very impressive, measuring roughly forty feet deep by sixty feet in diameter.'
asciilifeform: 'The April 1993 bomb was supposedly detonated in a parked garbage truck, but managed to create a huge crater in the road that was subsequently filmed by the media: another crucial error confirmed by independent explosives experts in Australia. The blast from most bombs takes the easiest path, in this case outwards then upwards to atmosphere. The crater could only have appeared if the bomb was dropped from an aircraft, or was b
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> who wants to run an editor that can open the net ? << why wouldn't your editor connect to the net at your command? ☟︎
mats: i miss blowing things up
funkenstein_: it's all public, old, and fiction. great writer though.
assbot: Logged on 01-07-2015 16:46:00; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=30-06-2015#1181835 << that's really not the best idea. make it a hammoc, something.
ben_vulpes: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=01-07-2015#1182919 << why? and how can i possibly evaluate any advice in this context? ☝︎☟︎
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=30-06-2015#1181766 << not worth a thousand words eh ? << only maybe if well curated, but that breaks the whole algorithmic share allocation routine ☝︎☟︎
mats: and you'd not be able to hide rad signatures from anybody bothering to look, i would think ☟︎
mats: but that is of dubious authenticity
mats: i dunno how to do the calculations for homemade explosive like that
decimation: was vastly superior to eudora & alternatives
mats: i think its inevitable for tactical nukes to be fielded
asciilifeform: mats: as nato reich continues its path down the drainpipe to join the earlier reichs, various folks' temptation to find out 'if the nukes still work
mats: passably decent analysis overall, although the journalist is quite wrong about ru military inferiority and nato military superiority ☟︎
assbot: How World War III became possible: A nuclear conflict with Russia is likelier than you think - Vox ... ( http://bit.ly/1Ny7xNo )
punkman: never played that one, but kinda reminds me of Cannon Fodder
asciilifeform: https://archive.org/stream/computer_ambush#page/n14/mode/1up << gotta love the 'biographies'
assbot: Full text of "Apple Manual: computer ambush" ... ( http://bit.ly/1Ny6IUW )
asciilifeform: https://archive.org/stream/computer_ambush/computer_ambush_djvu.txt << manual to 'ambush'
williamdunne: Oh, thats a little better but still retarded
punkman: nah supposedly you'll be paying at one and they'll split it up
williamdunne: So you've got to pay VAT to 20+ agencies IIRC
williamdunne: Rather than the operator
williamdunne: Or the more recent ruling on EU VAT where its billed at the customer country
williamdunne: That one too
williamdunne: How can Chicago enforce a tax law on a company not based in Chicago?
williamdunne: I'm quite curious about how on earth that works as far as jurisdiction goes
williamdunne: "Amusement Tax", mmmmK
punkman: "Netflix, Spotify and other streaming services just got more expensive in Chicago as an update to the city’s amusement tax went into effect Wednesday. The change adds a 9 percent tax to Chicago residents’ subscriptions."
williamdunne: One split their nose, the other got a nosebleed and a semi-bad black eye
williamdunne: Yeah, two peoples
williamdunne: Yesterday was the most entertaining time I've had in a while
funkenstein_: i'm just going to pretend it's supersymmetric lodging and move on
williamdunne: Yeah, but you get to fuck the rock
funkenstein_: like that 127 hours guy?
williamdunne: What the fuck
gribble: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=slodging | Slodging. Lodging yourself between inanimate objects and waiting for others to dislodge you. Usually done for sexual pleasure. "Wow, Slodging ourselves into ...
punkman: you ever try slodging?
funkenstein_: variety is the spice of life
funkenstein_: not defending twitter mind you, your point still stands
williamdunne: But I don't have a quota of minorities to fill
funkenstein_: williamdunne, how do you pick girlfriends then?
williamdunne: Why on earth anyone thinks hiring people for the sake of diversity is a good idea, I will never know ☟︎
assbot: Twitter employs only 49 African Americans despite diversity pledges | Technology | The Guardian ... ( http://bit.ly/1KtMXQB )
asciilifeform: bonus points for testing on heathen compilers
phf: all patches except reward overflow, cuminer snip and igprof, up to eatblock. mac os 10.8, built dynamically with llvm's c and cmake. synced about 5 days ago ☟︎
phf: asciilifeform: i did blockdump on 0..217336 and all the checksums come out to what's in sums.txt.gz. i'm going to eatblock them with a fresh datadir
asciilifeform: https://www.kernel.org/doc/gorman/html/understand/understand006.html << for anyone struggling to make sense of http://therealbitcoin.org/ml/btc-dev/2015-July/000107.html
williamdunne: Oh, its actually more simplistic than that
williamdunne: So top half of alphabet
williamdunne: I think its up-down
mats: how would that work? morse code?
asciilifeform: pc keyboard, esp. the piece of shit most folks use, is a veritable 'dulap' for hands, yes
asciilifeform: at any rate, more folks lose hands from ordinary qwerty than from any robot
asciilifeform: (it was a stationary laboratory robot, ~2x1x1 metres. so all that was at stake was an odd hand or two)
asciilifeform fwiw, when worked with robot, had all the 'safety' interlocks disabled. they make it damn-near impossible to get real work done ☟︎
assbot: Logged on 01-07-2015 23:46:56; williamdunne: trinque: The guy walked into the security enclosure while the machine was operating
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=01-07-2015#1183884 << how many fall into woodchipper every day of the week ☝︎☟︎
trinque: williamdunne: yeah, I'm just amused as shit at the thought of some german guy shouting "EVERYSING IS VURKING ACCORDINK TO SPECIFICATION!"
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=01-07-2015#1183815 << mno. that thing has an almost-new 1tb 'samsung' ssd, half-full ☝︎
williamdunne: trinque: The guy walked into the security enclosure while the machine was operating ☟︎
trinque: gonna need security cam footage of this
trinque: http://www.ft.com/fastft/353721/worker-killed-volkswagen-robot-accident << "VW said the robot had not suffered a technical defect." << LOL!
asciilifeform off to eat caek
mircea_popescu: except i mean that literally.
mircea_popescu: whereas i am going to go play my game
pete_dushenski: lol well, with two articles published today, ima sign off for the eve. a river cruise and fireworks await. cheers !
asciilifeform: if cuts, then same format !
asciilifeform: ^ try cutting one of them with http://therealbitcoin.org/ml/btc-dev/2015-July/000113.html
asciilifeform: same as blkxxxx then ?
assbot: Logged on 01-07-2015 23:03:08; jurov: do you plan to kep it compatible with phoundation bootstrap.dat?
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=01-07-2015#1183843 << i don't recall what was in this ☝︎
mircea_popescu: "1. be as bland as possible ; 2. find an insecure fuckwit to leech off ; 3. get lucky"
asciilifeform: student exercise: calculate joules/sec of herr gore's jet, and translate into gigahash
asciilifeform: just on the envirowhiner-left side
assbot: Logged on 01-07-2015 23:01:44; mircea_popescu: asciilifeform note how smoothly the man switched from "we've always said bitcoin has to have larger blocks" to "we;ve always said bitcoin is using up too much electricity" in midsentence!
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=01-07-2015#1183841 << eh, the 'too many joules' crowd has been going for ~2y+ now ☝︎
asciilifeform: but now other folks are invited to repeat the experiment
assbot: Logged on 01-07-2015 22:55:38; mircea_popescu: asciilifeform http://therealbitcoin.org/ml/btc-dev/2015-July/000107.html << this is lovely shit.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=01-07-2015#1183832 << pretty basic. figured - ~somebody~ has to do that chore ☝︎
shinohai: I always just cat the blkxxxx.dat's > bootstrap.dat