asciilifeform: if it e.g. sends random page of ram as a coded dns packet every full moon, it will do this regardless of whether anyone photographed it, lol
asciilifeform: no particular reason why you'd leave this item plugged in, afaik
asciilifeform: ( on every box i know of , it's a separate jack )
asciilifeform: mod6: these are only a problem when plugged in
asciilifeform: hey i was curious re whether the hypothetical can be made to make sense
asciilifeform: aha. recall, there was at least 1 occasion of trilema server growing legs and walking away☟︎
asciilifeform: if can steal 1, can just as readily cart away entire orchestra, neh
asciilifeform: why would he limit to 1 ? what, it has to be carried out under his coat??
asciilifeform: picture yourself in enemy's position; when would you want to steal 1 box, but not e.g. 20 ?
asciilifeform: naively could say something like 'it's a dell 1950, and obummer will know to send the dell 1950 magicpacket' but consider, he will send all possible magicks anyway, because wainot
asciilifeform: mod6: try as i might, i can't picture how a photo would help to exploit yer box ( aside from the 'tells enemy which rack to dynamite' aspect, but mp_en_viaje addressed that one earlier )
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: there was a thread, while back, re physically-compact, low-wattage machines as a sane alternative to cloudism. can't seem to find it in log
asciilifeform: incidentally i also have a working example of the http://www.loper-os.org/?p=1644 box, which so happens is 1u high and tops my current list of 'pogolike but still in production'
asciilifeform: incl. at least 1 with the serial port
asciilifeform: the concrete cost of e.g. 'i want to emplace 1U and get 500kB/s in/out'
asciilifeform: right. but gotta specify. currently it's a mystery
asciilifeform: another item, BingoBoingo : to specify what bw each box gets. ( is it 1/42 of the pipe ? 1/nth where n is number of occupants ? the latter is somewhat unpleasantly comcastlike, imho . which is it )
asciilifeform: ( it is imho unlikely that anyone will demonstrate an rsatron with fewer moving parts than ffa-ch5 )
asciilifeform: diana_coman: in some applications, speed doesn't really matter almost at all. and in those, it is even now possible to, e.g., take ch5 ffa for rsatron.
asciilifeform: ( you are likely to see 200-300x slowdown, depending on particular chip, be ready for this )
asciilifeform: but if the application tolerates this -- no reason wainot.
asciilifeform: the unfortunate thing re 'use word to store 1 bit' is that it will give obscenely disproportionate slowdown, due to spilling out of cacheable size
asciilifeform: diana_coman: the observation re 'take as much speed as you actually need, but not more, if costs ugliness' is correct and is in fact the basis for ffa
asciilifeform: fwiw one can also define these like a barbarian, as x * 2 and x / 2 ; and gcc (last i saw) will Do The Right Thing and transform to a shift
