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jurov: cryptome is down.. are we the new slashdot?
ascii_field: deniability? sure, 'umm sorry taiwanese factory, umm, lost, signing key' a la stuxnet
NewLiberty: 'Jeh C. Johnson, the Homeland Security secretary, said that it was “indulging in a fantasy to believe you can shut down the Department of Homeland Security and there be no impact to homeland security itself.”' Sure it might become more secure when the security theater show ends and people start taking personal responsibility.
ascii_field: jurov: i still don't get why usg would use anything other than the most 'respectable' root certs ('verisign' et al) for their shenanigans
BingoBoingo: ascii_field: But in fiat land with monthly bill payments, even a delay can be catastrophic to the stooge
assbot: The Mac Facilitates Spying Too | Zit Seng's Blog ... ( http://bit.ly/17rt2Ak )
ascii_field: The "critical" employees would be working without the expectation of receiving a pay check. << not really
ascii_field: if one of you fellas can come up with a copy of the src used to build that archlinux kernel, it contains The Answer (tm) ☟︎
ascii_field: there's some magic init trick
ascii_field: at 'hackernews' hand-twiddling the story ratings and outright burial ordered from above has been sop since day one. but the reddit cesspool has generally been left alone (other than by armies of muppets, electric and meat alike) until recently.
mircea_popescu: i just want a functional reference point tree for when this topic is discussed in future. currently, my go-to link for "reddit manipulation" is either the trilema or the qntrea article. it's beneficial if they somewhere (like in comments) have a link to a later case they didn't substantially cover
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Ah, now I'm more confused than ever
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i meant the other way :D
BingoBoingo: ascii_field: Noticed that a few hours ago
ascii_field: 'cryptome' under extra-thick ddos today...
assbot: ButterNubber comments on The Superfish Funder List ... ( http://bit.ly/18gcaO0 )
assbot: It's Easy To Call Us A Tiny Minority When You Engage In Vote Manipulation | Qntra.net ... ( http://bit.ly/1DeNkYW )
assbot: "These fools have been handed a technology so clever, so disruptive and revolutionary, that the rulers of the world would have to fully unmask themselves as ruthless tyrants in order to suppress it, — or give up their thrones on their own free will — if it were used correctly, that is." pe Trile ... ( http://bit.ly/1DeNkIB )
ascii_field: can i get vc funding to sp4m l1k3 4 pr0? plz?
ascii_field: '...the Venture Capital Firms which made Superfish possible...' << lol! amerika where even spamware tr0j4n needs vc investment
mircea_popescu: mind leaving a link to log on article discussing this for future ?
mircea_popescu: programming, this time. clearly it's happening without the subreddit mod's knowledge, there's no overlap about bitcoin tards and programmers.
mircea_popescu: funny how the otherwise very competent psych does not feel comfortable taking off the coat and hat, and waddling in the mud modestly like http://38.media.tumblr.com/7c2d7566582a69867da0b68c13787462/tumblr_ngsc6rN6OV1ty4fj6o1_500.gif any amateur.
ascii_field: the clock ad on that site is hilarious
mircea_popescu: http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2008/03/economy_where_we_go_from_here.html << tlp's sufferances as an amateur financier on an etrade account, and his efforts to cope and come to terms with it is a whole opera in and of itself.
mircea_popescu: imo this is pointless wankery.
assbot: John Loftus (author) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ... ( http://bit.ly/18gazrD )
ascii_field: iirc there was once support for 128b md5 fp
ascii_field: ELL ME - TELL ME - / TELL ME - TELL ME - TORN - MORNING / E4A966FF04DD296A41F5AAD497C64494 / THAT KEY should SCARE THE LIVING HELL OUT OF CIA / GO AHEAD - PUSH IT
mircea_popescu: i skimmed. was curious more in the method of separating the two, if meaningfully applicable.
pete_dushenski: "Monsanto said Wednesday its earnings fell 34% in its first fiscal quarter" << fucken derps following cisco to the grave. such paper signers.
ascii_field: separate the two
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: yes but that's normal acid trip not technical gaffe
mircea_popescu: all the way down to "imagine all the people derping in harmonee"
ascii_field: in these
ascii_field: usually there are obvious technical gaffes
mircea_popescu: he sounds like run of the mill overstimulated geek to me.
mircea_popescu: you mean the commenter's ?
ascii_field: of the fantasy.
ascii_field: to see in what kind of studio the production was filmed.
ascii_field: trying to reverse-engineer the theatrical props here
mircea_popescu: not how this works.
mircea_popescu: "oh what if i make it a chocolate tape then!!1"
mircea_popescu: "You can't have an idea. It's not a thing, not something to "have". It's not like a chocolate cake, you get your hands on it that's that, it's yours."
mircea_popescu: that tape, it's nothing but a fetish of "an idea".
mircea_popescu: "That's what it is. There's no such thing as "an idea", for damn sure."
mircea_popescu: do i need to quote at you ?
ascii_field: imagine actual 3/4 inch tape
pete_dushenski: this guy's too good
pete_dushenski: "United States Department of State has YET TO FEEL THE WRATH OF THE LLAMACOIN "
pete_dushenski: "DOJ - Do you have ANY IDEA - WHAT IS ON THAT TAPE ? DO YOU ? UNITED STATES ENDS ON 1 SINGLE 3/4 INCH TAPE. ENTIRE SOVEREIGN CURRENCY ENDS
BingoBoingo: ascii_field: One of the lizards got drunk on the interent?
mircea_popescu: lol. they don't, obv.
mircea_popescu: Would you like a MIRRORED COPY OF YOUR OWN DATABASE? FROM THAT ERA? WE HAVE IT DO YOU?
assbot: Qntra.net Traffic and Demographic Statistics by Quantcast ... ( http://bit.ly/1zsOj4H )
pete_dushenski: you're too fast for me
mircea_popescu: (a lot more in summer due to hydro and less hydrocarbon usage for heating)
mircea_popescu: http://www.transelectrica.ro/widget/web/tel/sen-harta/-/harta_WAR_SENOperareHartaportlet << this is actually trhe current data
pete_dushenski: my foggy memory of the romanian countryside is now clearning up..
mircea_popescu: (france supported ro bid to eu chiefly because they needed ro heavy water).
mircea_popescu: putin is hurting the west with cheap energy about 10x more than whatever "sanctions"
mircea_popescu: eu market got integrated, lot of excess capacity in the east, there it goes.
pete_dushenski: though nuclear must be one hell of a tough industry
pete_dushenski: "Areva, the French nuclear technology giant, warned on Monday that it was facing a loss of a magnitude that raises doubts about its ability to continue operations without an injection of state funds to restore its capital. The state-controlled company expects a 2014 net loss of about 4.9 billion euros, or $5.6 billion, from a loss of €500 million a year earlier." << blame the japs!
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punkman: pete_dushenski: what would that get them?
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pete_dushenski: "The Pirate Bay is bringing back moderators to delete spam accounts and fake Torrents" << agents finding new day jobs ?
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assbot: Hackers Cut in Line at the Burning Man Ticket Sale—And Get Caught | WIRED ... ( http://bit.ly/17r7Udw )
punkman: http://www.wired.com/2015/02/hacking-burning-man-tickets/ "I need to have a ticket to go camping in the desert"
mircea_popescu: "Since cocaine must dissociate from antibody before it can be metabolized, either in plasma or liver, such results seem surprising. " I'm willing to bet they misread the data, dun actually have a response at all, but hey.
punkman: nubbins`: well, shitty dope doesn't have that, but if you spritz it with saline... << if only the retards came up with saline. I've read about some assholes using spray with glass beads (the kind used to make shiny road paint) that would penetrate the flowers.
assbot: Interception of Cocaine by Enzyme or Antibody Delivered with Viral Gene Transfer: A Novel Strategy for Preventing Relapse in Recovering Drug Users ... ( http://bit.ly/17r4Xtr )
mircea_popescu: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3738214/ this one ?
mircea_popescu: http://protcalc.sourceforge.net/ << this is pretty neat too.
punkman: (one of the cocaine vaccines uses big cholera protein to deliver cocaine molecule)
mircea_popescu: some immune response is to an assortment of polysaccharids etc, but still.
mircea_popescu: by far the vast majority of immune response is to proteins. the difference is about two degrees of magnitude in molecular weight.
mircea_popescu: well can you name any tropane alkaloid that has an immune response associated ?
punkman: mircea_popescu: punkman: I thought the principle was to trigger immune response against cocaine molecule, not reward centre <<< you don't understand how immune works! << nuh uh I went to school and even paid attention sometimes!
cjc: I had to wait several more years for it to be in high-def on home video.
cjc: One of the problems with the 90s was... when I bought Pulp Fiction as the first DVD I purchased ever... it was in letterbox format.
mircea_popescu: yeah, pulp fiction revolves around tarantino's latent homosexuality.
thestringpuller: you guise are making me miss the 90's
cjc: There is fixation with ass there... the story of the watch is another one.
thestringpuller: Yea I mean Wallace gets butt raped after he retrieves the suitcase. If that has any significance...I dunno
thestringpuller: yea that interlude is only connected after jules retires and delivers the suitcase
danielpbarron: i suppose all the different plots relate to marcellus wallace
danielpbarron: the suitcase doesn't have much to do with the fixed boxing match
danielpbarron: i wouldn't say it revolves around the suitcase
thestringpuller: danielpbarron: i still have nightmares about that butt rape scene.
thestringpuller: danielpbarron: re Pulp Fiction << revolves around that suitcase mainly, cept for "interlude of chick OD'ing"
cjc: BingoBoingo, thanks for the !up
mircea_popescu: it's dangerous. cool temperatures favor clot formation
danielpbarron: mircea_popescu> asciilifeform actually the most common circumstance-driven attack is, older sedentary white male goes out to shovel snow. << LOL i just did such a thing / felt like i was gonna have a heart attack :/
danielpbarron: mircea_popescu> actually iirc pulp fiction revolves around guy getting a proper bag << pulp fiction doesn't "revolve around" anything -- kinda the point
assbot: Netzapper comments on The Superfish Funder List ... ( http://bit.ly/1ACmDwh )
mircea_popescu: and in the daily wtf : http://38.media.tumblr.com/7c2d7566582a69867da0b68c13787462/tumblr_ngsc6rN6OV1ty4fj6o1_500.gif
mircea_popescu: "The most reliable street test in my opinion is actually the smell of cocaine, as it has a very distinct aroma that none of the additives possess. Unfortunately, for reference, this requires you to have smelt a lot of different cocaine of certain purities, and very few people have had that opportunity. Personally, I think I could estimate cocaine purity from its scent and from looking at and tasting a few milligrams, b