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mircea_popescu: about half
the people currently working
there have
this episode in
their life, "give us all your money and we'll agree
to not let you work for x years"
mircea_popescu: for
the record,
that system already exists, for wall street pencildicks.
mircea_popescu: i don't buy from paypal, you expect me
to
trade with your vending machine ? wtf is
this, "free market
the way we like it" ?
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> do you basically mean
that bitcoin can not be held without
tools, whereas gold can, or at least
to a higher degree ? << At
the
time more physical possession of gold is different from possession of bitcoin
ascii_field: speaking of 'brainwallet', mircea_popescu's picture of usg prison where 'lifetime pension' is probably not long for
this world.
assbot: Logged on 10-06-2015 17:00:45; ascii_field: it is
the ultimate 'iq
test'
mircea_popescu: ie, it enforces a "must be
this
tall
to ride" limit rather
than allowing people
to delude
themselves about it
mircea_popescu: this is
true. nevertheless, bitcoin is very elitist by its nature, which flows from
this.
mircea_popescu: do you basically mean
that bitcoin can not be held without
tools, whereas gold can, or at least
to a higher degree ?
BingoBoingo: Ah, I was refering
to
the need
to get
the keys or
the coins, as in you can't
take a laptop "full of Bitcoin" and have seized
the coins: "Bitcoin on
the other hand demands not only mere physical possession, but actual control of a set of keys necessary
to
transfer value. While gold is vulnerable
to a simple change of possession, Bitcoin requires a more difficult but possible intellectual change of possession."
mircea_popescu: most of
the gold
the spanish sent
to spain ended up in london.
mircea_popescu: someone could steal your gold after you sent it just as well, what's
that
to do with
the gold ?
BingoBoingo: It isn't an actual property of Bitcoins. It is a failing of
the social structuring of
the stupid.
BingoBoingo: It means
that if you seize some bitcoin and send it immediately
to herpity derp service
they might
turp
their way into "returning it" out of some misguided notion of ownership. Gotta at least use a solid mixer like BitBet
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i don't get
this distinction you propose. so "unlike
the cryptocurrency Bitcoin, Gold seized immediately preserves its full exchange value.", what's
this mean,
that people paid less for faux Bitcoin
the USMS was pretending
to be selling
than for faux Bitcoin pirate was pretending
to be going
to pay
them ?
williamdunne: Will publish anything
that he posts here on
twitter also
ascii_field: state of
the art re: minimality, short of plain old $trillion-in-paper-cash-'missing'-in-iraq sort of siphon
mircea_popescu: ascii_field a magical
toothpick works just as well for
that purpose.
ascii_field: still works great for original purpose for which was built (siphon of usg budget
to good ol'boys, what did you
think it was)
ascii_field: because of
the cell
tower shadow it creates
ascii_field: phun phakt: detecting 'stealth' airplane is easier
today
than ever
kakobrekla: mircea_popescu
true, id say its more likely nato self leak, but anyway,
the radar
thing is quite lulzy
ascii_field: it also would be logical for whatever consumes
the sooper s33kr17
text string (e.g., salted password hasher)
to actually live in
that brass
tube.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla
the part where
the serbs were breaking nato codes is never given much airplay.
ascii_field ~did warn~
that no one will like
this keyboard.
ascii_field: 8x8 non-scanned is practical. beyond
that (e.g. graphical lcd) you now have a scanning matrix!
mircea_popescu: how about getting a picture of a whole keyboard rather
than a key
then
ascii_field: because you do not know where in
the alphabet it began, each
time.
ascii_field: it is important
that nothing can be determined by looking at user!
ascii_field: device picks where in alphabet
to start - at random (trng)
ascii_field: so, consider a kaleidoscope. copper barrel, like victorian
telescopes etc. eyepiece - glass, indium oxide (scavenge from old lcd; electrically conductive)
ascii_field: i will describe what is probably
the cheapest way
to make a 'stealth keyboard' . but no one will like it.
assbot: Logged on 24-06-2015 15:52:32; kakobrekla: pete_dushenski
the leak is happening via gnd, so if gnd is directly connected
to usb gnd, i
think
the leak continiues
ascii_field: surrender is
the ultimate 'user friendly' (2nd only
to death)
ascii_field: punkman:
there is no 'off
the shelf' consumer appliance
that will do a lick of good here.
punkman: how would you mitigate
that?
assbot: Logged on 24-06-2015 15:41:10; mircea_popescu:
tho i suspect
the cheapo plastic bump kbds are a little quieter
than
the model ms
ascii_field always
thought 'warchest' meant gigantic bag of money (or, at least, ammo)
pete_dushenski wants
to plan ahead, prepare for future, build warchest.
pete_dushenski: ascii_field: and what about
tmrw, when
this moment has come and gone ?
jurov: (i have replaced battery in my cheapo ups,
tested it with 40W bulb... in shock watched
the visible jitter, and it put out ~160V instead of 220)
ascii_field: pete_dushenski:
they're reading
them from black van, cheaper atm
pete_dushenski: so
that meta-lisard-nsa doesn't read my keystrokes
through
the mains ?
ascii_field: pete_dushenski:
the hammond
thing looks like just isolator, not stabilizer
pete_dushenski: ascii_field:
thoughts on
the 'hammond' unit linked above ?
ascii_field: if getting
the latter, find a secondhand unit with missing or rotten battery, replace by yourself (100
to 200 usd, assemble
the pack manually)
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: 'And
this is what I cal disruptive.' <<
pete_dushenski: lulzy
thing is
that
these machines still exist in canada even
though 'penny' was phased out last year
pete_dushenski: i'm sure he'll
take a megaton dump on
that little canadian ebay
toy
pete_dushenski: such is
the risk of conversing where experts can see you.
kakobrekla: pete_dushenski just wait for ascii
to piss on my suggestions.
kakobrekla: i havent
tried but it not impossible a different cable would fix
this
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: lol
the window was probably a few weeks.
tops.
kakobrekla: pete_dushenski
the leak is happening via gnd, so if gnd is directly connected
to usb gnd, i
think
the leak continiues
☟︎ pete_dushenski: ^heh i was
thinking about
this eulora question,
time
to
test my answers against
the back page !
mircea_popescu: i doubt battery powered antenna is any weaker
than mains powered antenna
kakobrekla: if its made properly it should be good afaik but dont
take my word for it
pete_dushenski: kakobrekla: or is
that what you mean by 'ps2 isolator' ?