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nubbins`: i wander over lunchtime
to walk inside, armed guard stops me
nubbins`: i recall in 2002 when
the G8 summit was being held in canada, i was working in ottawa at fed gov bldg across
the street from department of foreign affairs
trinque: I expect more crazies
to crack in response
to "the walls have ears" as
time goes on
ascii_field: some years ago, when i still worked at [small usg research outpost] we had a 'gatehouse incident.' much commotion and yellow
tape, etc.
turned out, guard blew own brains out messily
ascii_field: pete_dushenski:
these are descriptors for
the folks who happily buy faux death rays from feds and imprisoned for life, or ram a gate because
the voices commanded it
pete_dushenski: it makes sense
that
the
typical box-checkers and form-fillers would be...
typical
pete_dushenski: ascii_field
these are various descriptors for 'non-normies'
ascii_field: trinque: good
time
to rehash my observation
that
the only 'decisive' people, as in out-and-out arms against usg - are
the schizos, imbeciles, and provocateurs
trinque: nubbins` | with
the implication
that in
the future, when
the incident IS
terrorism-related, y'all better get scared
pete_dushenski: mebbe someone was
trying
to sabotage ft meade's magick bitcoin mining op
ascii_field: because so what if it snowcrashes mid-flick, so you have
to use imagination, or somethinglikethat
ascii_field: that is
to say, a machine where
the 'answers' don't actually matter
ascii_field: mircea_popescu, i
think it was, had a
term, 'pornwatchingcomputer'
pete_dushenski: ascii_field before you came along
there was probably more blissful ignorance
ascii_field: i will confess
that upon first coming
to #b-a i was greatly surprised
that any of
the folks involved with something called 'bitcoin assets' might have any doubts as
to
the necessity of ecc given
that correct computation of a certain answer -actually means your arse-
pete_dushenski: thestringpuller well we can't really be more on
the 'watch list'
then we already are
nubbins`: did i mention
that i saw a cop help someone break into a house earlier?
☟︎ thestringpuller: pretty sure buying ECC RAM in
the future will put you on watch list
nubbins` doubts alf casually purchases anything
that manipulates electrons
thestringpuller: ascii_field:
told my buddy about your necessity of ECC ram. his response, "Dafuq he doing? Rocket science? Evil science shit?!?"
ascii_field: pete_dushenski: considerably more juice in
that one
than what i have
nubbins`: had
to use parted instead of fdisk
fluffypony: exacting revenge on
the government
that put him behind bars
fluffypony: till he gets released, and he's become
this muscle-bound gangsta covered in prison
tats
fluffypony: what would be brilliant is if he
tweets and
then after 3 weeks he goes dark
nubbins`: i saw a commercial once where martha stewart said she /had
to learn how
to make creme caramel in
the microwave/ while she was in prison
ascii_field: sure, if obama goes
to prison, one such will be found for him.
thestringpuller: ascii_field: you're allowed
to
tweet from inside federal prison known as "club fed"
ascii_field: thestringpuller: you can probably get same machine
that i use every day for less
than
the cost of a couplea pogos
fluffypony: ascii_field: Shrem is going
to
the sort of prison where you have
Twitter access
nubbins`: ascii_field "tweets from
the president"
thestringpuller: ascii_field: I'm just jelly cause I was always
too poor
to own an opteron machine. I had
to stick with
the lesser Athlons
assbot: Well I'm off
to prison now! Follow my
twitter for
tweets from
the inside /hashtag/Bitcoin?src=hash
nubbins`: actually had a
Tandy 1000 SX stashed at my folks' house until last year
pete_dushenski: ascii_field you and mp using amd, mac lusers never had
this option
nubbins`: recently upgraded
to 8gb ram and a new battery
too, breathed a bit of new life
ascii_field: if you can extract
the
text from
there, more win
thestringpuller: i imagine
the future a bunch of people running altair 8800 clones in caves
to
talk
to each other in binary XD
BingoBoingo: ascii_field: Any links
to where it might be living. Haven't been able
to spot it on Pacer.
thestringpuller: pete_dushenski:
the implemenation wouldn't be on
the level of what most of us are running, but
there could be some kind of IRC-like communication. But yea no one wants
to run a 1401 for other reasons...
ascii_field recommends
that everyone read
the Force & Bridges indictment, it is an absolute circus
pete_dushenski: though i'd be interested
to poll b-a'ers as
to what hardware
they use daily for irc/web
pete_dushenski: thestringpuller ya,
the newer stuff is fucked but not beyond usefulness
nubbins`: dat inability
to use without a friend
thestringpuller: Pretty sure all
tech before Dr. Dre's
the Chronic 2001 came out is fucked in some way.
assbot: Logged on 13-10-2014 19:14:19; asciilifeform: ulbricht << unless he's learned
to grind rsa in his head, how is
this
to happen? his jailers will otherwise have
the key at
their leisure.
BingoBoingo: ascii_field: Seems
to already be happening. Mark Force IV was only flawed by a lack of fissures
thestringpuller: pete_dushenski: anything made by Apple should be on
that list.
ascii_field: 'Federal Agents Who Persecuted Ulbricht Arrested' << for what it's worth, i predicted
that bitcoin will help usg fission into men and groups of men with actual, if unofficial - agency (in
the philosophical sense)
thestringpuller: BingoBoingo: ah i
thought
there were some "sane"
TLS implementations. I don't use it so I can't really speak on it.
BingoBoingo: <thestringpuller> well only OpenSSL had heartbleed <<
The other big SSL implementations had
their own flaws unveiled in
the following months
that essentially accomplished
the same insecurity.
pete_dushenski: of which i grant
there are millions, but are bigger fish and smaller fish
ben_vulpes: pete_dushenski:
trying
to enumerate badness?
pete_dushenski: it's about
time
that la serenissima has a list of contraband
pete_dushenski: ^ if anyone has recommendations of "technologies
to avoid for safety, security, and sanity" please
to advise
Chillum is getting off
topic here, but is hanging out in ##stoned
Chillum: When you come
to Vic, send me a message. We can 420
pete_dushenski: i haven't been
to
the 'big island' in a while but i have a
trip planned
to victoria in may
Chillum: the one
that dips below
the 49th parallel
Chillum: even
the cops smoke pot around here
Chillum: glad
the stuff I smoke is not
taxed
pete_dushenski: "Tobacco
taxes will increase by $5 on a 200 cigarette carton. Liquor markups will increase by 90 cents on a case of beer and 16 cents on a bottle of wine or spirits." << moar
tackses
pete_dushenski: he didn't end up introdocing a provincial sales
tax, but last week he re-introduced health care premiums and raised gas
taxes
BingoBoingo: So either
this
thing isn't in Pacer yet, or I've been searching
the wrong courts
pete_dushenski: recall
that he's
the premier of alberta who
threatened sales
taxes
pete_dushenski: heh "fuck jim prentice" was 2.4% of
the search results leading
to contravex
BingoBoingo: bitstein: I'll have
to give
them a re-read.
Chillum: I
think if someone has III at
the end of
their name you just call
them
Trips