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BingoBoingo: mircea
_popescu: It's a comment on derpiticle. A comment that was carried onto the RSS version of the derpiticle.
ascii_butugychag: mircea
_popescu: the folks in question are the 'unique brand of stupid' because this is ~MANDATORY~ if you want to make a living doing what they do.
mircea_popescu: ascii
_butugychag take the first thing that came to my eyes. so dedekind and fourier are ENTIRELY separate nodes ? you swear to this ?
ascii_butugychag: mircea
_popescu: there is not a single unified 'playing field', no. what there is, is a torch carried by maybe 3-5 people at a time. ever.
mircea_popescu: ascii
_butugychag but the pissants have NOTHING TO DO with honest community either way.
mircea_popescu: ascii
_butugychag thanks for those sweet, sweet delicious butthurt tears. made my morn.
ascii_butugychag: mircea
_popescu: the lawsuit crackpot linked earlier was, imho, pure gold. he was genuinely convinced that rule-of-law was a thing! and kept picking, picking at the cracks in it, utterly mystified that every single judge 'lost' his papers, etc
thestringpuller: mircea
_popescu: reminds of the boondocks: "I was looking for bitches, but they had they carpet shit all over them and I couldn’t see what they look like. All that was really exposed was they eyes. And that wasn’t enough for me ‘cause you know, shit I’m lookin at they eyes and they eyes could be pretty and I take off their carpet… and then I got a tragedy."
mircea_popescu: ascii
_butugychag> hell, more often by own side. <<< own side can't usually be bothered. goatherder females much juicier.
mats: ascii
_butugychag: as I recall, only a handful died taking the hospital
assbot: Logged on 05-02-2016 14:03:13; mircea
_popescu: who exactly wants this ? other than fucking nsa, of course, as per usual. ("but mr goldstein, you SIGNED that child porn. whadda ya mean it's an automatic process you don't control.")
assbot: Logged on 05-02-2016 03:14:22; asciilifeform: perhaps mircea
_popescu when he wakes up.
felipelalli: mircea
_popescu, thank you to being the main source of this article! Thanks to have produced good contents about the subject.
assbot: Logged on 05-02-2016 02:50:54; asciilifeform: mircea
_popescu: 's-boxes' etc are the voodoo paraphernalia of the block-ciphration field, which was from its very beginning and to this day 100% hokum
assbot: Logged on 04-02-2016 23:34:43; mircea
_popescu: ascii
_butugychag> how many us folk realize that usa was mega-power in mid-20th ~because~ it was a place where folks like ulam wanted to live ? >> this is what i've been saying re tmsr for a while nao. finally dawned ?
BingoBoingo: But seriously lolz on Bugzilla: "It seems that eventually by fixing this non-bug a REAL BUG has now been created: forcing the ASK
_BEFORE
_ACCEPT like ACCEPT
_NORMALLY (see comment 19 above by M Hamdy) results in allowing, e.g., google.com to install a cookie even if google.com is set to be blocked in the list of exceptions."
assbot: Logged on 05-02-2016 02:18:02; mircea
_popescu: asciilifeform> any means to prove that a ~particular~ instance of that problem is not susceptible to a more efficient pill. << incidentally, this is the best argument for SIMPLE (mathematically) ciphers and cryptography generally.
BingoBoingo: <mircea
_popescu> this person is intellectually unqualified to participate in any discussion. << Why so surprised.
BingoBoingo: <mircea
_popescu> a barony! << Barony today, Dutchy tomorrow
mircea_popescu: ascii
_butugychag> how many us folk realize that usa was mega-power in mid-20th ~because~ it was a place where folks like ulam wanted to live ? >> this is what i've been saying re tmsr for a while nao. finally dawned ?
☟︎ danielpbarron: ascii
_butugychag> danielpbarron was a cryptographer ? << notrly
thestringpuller: always meant to ask ascii
_butugychag - what is your avatar?
assbot: Logged on 04-02-2016 20:37:03; ascii
_butugychag: for a degreed mathematician, or even talented amateur, the life choices are generally a) web dev b) usg.
mircea_popescu: ascii
_butugychag speaking of which, this very expensive rare custom job of a server that was made to be a phuctor host is going to be paid for the 2nd idle month.
phf: mircea
_popescu: ok, i don't get it, about the card printed
mircea_popescu: ascii
_butugychag actually the one trouble for them is... rebasing :)
thestringpuller: ascii
_butugychag: if the looms are destroyed in a fire, there may be no way to reproduce exactly the same end product.
mircea_popescu: ascii
_butugychag> the problem is that no such plans exist for ~anything~ except as part of the engineering context of their time << yet another one of the problems of not running v.
thestringpuller: ascii
_butugychag: yes, saturn V blueprints are on net. lets go to moon shall we? i have 3 days off coming up.
mircea_popescu: ascii
_butugychag> -- because it maxed out in 1960s. << aka "because they have no practical utility"
thestringpuller: ascii
_butugychag: re: nuke designer. I remember reading a wired article saying that practical nuclear engineering (bombs) is a dying field since no one can technically test nuclear detonations. Most of the students who were learning from manhattan project-age engineers were learning via word of mouth.
phf: mircea
_popescu: i've been using his guide in the early 2000s, but then i think he caved and switched to laptops, because he stopped updating it. he has a recent build recommendation
https://blog.cr.yp.to/20140602-saber.html from his "saber cluster"
assbot: Logged on 04-02-2016 17:05:32; mircea
_popescu: give me a 2kb replacement for bassomatic, in 1991. or a 64kb, today.
ascii_butugychag: mircea
_popescu: if this were so, may as well have sent the message in the clear!
mircea_popescu: ascii
_butugychag the example then was that the chain allows you to introduce known-weak points in a subsequent pass without being able to know it
ascii_butugychag: and now i wonder how the fuck mircea
_popescu can live with rsa
assbot: Logged on 04-02-2016 16:53:38; mircea
_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=04-02-2016#1396294 << this is like falling in love, you don't make one just because you need one. chaining things you don't understand for accountant's business sense reasons results in unexpected weaknesses. was a thread here about just that few months ago
ascii_butugychag surprised at how mircea
_popescu puts up with 'cementing' the abominably-broken gpg set
ascii_butugychag: i'll wait for mircea
_popescu to cough up provably-correct cipher..?
ascii_butugychag: but re: earlier thread, i'ma publish 'g'. and it'll have one or more of the bad old ciphers from gpg. BECAUSE gpg is ~already~ the weak link in the proposed system. or ben
_vulpes doesn't get to download his w4r3z