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decimation: asciilifeform: how can 20 MB 'load' faster
than 20 MB?
decimation: why didn't you bring your concerns
to
the community so
they can
try and find a solution
together?
decimation: I like
that line, because it summarizes
the activity of about 90% of
the american 'security state'
assbot: Logged on 30-01-2015 05:39:06; asciilifeform: likewise,
the orphans
thing is an easy ddos vector
BingoBoingo: davout: How is
the new Qntra mobile experience?
cazalla: i remember seeing
that and
thinking surely it's staged
hanbot: nah, apparently
that one wasn't indecent enough for a year of jail
hanbot: i dunno anything about her ass other
than it being in
the wrong jurisdiction
mircea_popescu: this ensures
that
trying
to ram-dos
the node would require as many different nodes as a fifth of
the
total number of blocks it can hold.
mircea_popescu: something simple like, "whenever a parentless block is handed over
the retaining of which would cause memory pool for holding parentless blocks
to be overrun, a) drop
the handed block ; b) close
the connection and ban
that peer for half hour ; c) discard all chains of parentless blocks longer
than six items ; d) connect again"
☟︎ ben_vulpes: it's almost as
though
the satoshi codebase were a projection of software
that knows how
to
talk
to
the one!
true! bitcoin protocol.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well actually,
the
thing could just look at how much memory it can allocate and
then never outpace it.
ben_vulpes: once it worked,
though, it was doomed
to work.
mircea_popescu: it was never seriously supposed
to work, and it was specifically not intended
to be used.
ben_vulpes: a coherent vision of how all of
the parts interact,
the emergent behaviors of
the system and a robustish bit of software
that can make sense of
the system.
ben_vulpes: if you'll forgive
the rant,
this is what
the satoshi codebase lacks.
ben_vulpes: someone *designed* each and every mechanism
to work
together.
ben_vulpes: a
thing i learned about engineering when i was...oh, six...was
that
the steam engine doesn't just work because doodz sat and
tweaked at it until everything went around just rightly.
ben_vulpes: anyways,
the parallels between how bitcoind only accidentally works and misc odd behaviors of
this ancient floppy plastic
toolbox are very apparent
to me at precisely
this moment.
ben_vulpes: resulting in
the
thing resting at
the unstable point at
the
top of
the arc.
mircea_popescu: vulpes is home alone and
trying
to find alternative passtimes
to masturbation.
hanbot: ben_vulpes it's a
trap!
ben_vulpes: there's an interesting configuration of
the
trays where
the center of gravity of
the
top
tray is balances
the CoG of
the bottom
tray.
this requires
torquing
the whole assembly such
that
the CoG's go in a funny place.
ben_vulpes: toolbox on
the
table has a
top
tray and a bottom
tray, connected by parallel braces, mounted at identically-spaced points on both
trays.
trays move on an arc defined by mechanisms constraints.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform>
the logical
thing
to do, for it, would be
to jettison
the entire orphanage if approaching
the hard limit <<
this may be a good idea, if actually something's needed.
ben_vulpes: "git" shows sun march 11 2012 as last commit at ref
tagged as v0.5.3
ben_vulpes: * asciilifeform [] knows how/why but still bewildered
that no one has at any point seen it fit
to bolt on basic sanity << features, bro
hanbot: for
the record, i deeply enjoyed
the sedition discussion. i vote for asciilifeform as most likely
to sedite.
BingoBoingo: So who what's
to
test qntra's new, more modern CSS?
mircea_popescu: if oyu carefully read
the log, you'll see a couple explicitly exposed
tho.
trinque: I'm gonna head out; man
that pissed me off
mircea_popescu: We are determined
to meet
these
threats
through infiltration, disruption, and dismantling of organizations which seek
to challenge
the legitimacy of our democratic form of government.‘ <<
this part is
the funniest, incidentally, considering
the APPALLING record of usg agents
trying
to infiltrate a god damnd public channel so far.
mircea_popescu: it's not much unlike someone going around
trying
to pass gavincoin for "real bitcoin", which we don't stand for.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in practice what he did is not really defensible
tho.
mircea_popescu: come
to
think of it... bitcoin not being money, not really a good... clearly it is a SUBSTANCE, right ?
trinque: anyone else from
the US want
to piss himself publically?
mircea_popescu: the above being also an interesting consideration for
they who wish
to argue "the libertards are in charge". pls start from
that and let me hear
the logic.
mircea_popescu: midnightmagic seems you're safe enough here. careful in #gavincoin-assets
tho
mircea_popescu: "The federal government has never won a sedition case against militia-types, white supremacists, or neo-Nazis. Since World War I,
they have won numerous seditious conspiracy cases against Puerto Rican independentistas, communists and others on
the left, but no one on
the radical right has ever been convicted of plotting
to overthrow by force of arms
the government of
the United States."
mircea_popescu: ossess any property of
the United States contrary
to
the authority
thereof,
they shall each be fined or imprisoned not more
than 20 years, or both."
mircea_popescu: 18 U.S.C. § 2384 "If
two or more persons in any State or
Territory, or in any place subject
to
the jurisdiction of
the United States, conspire
to overthrow, put down, or
to destroy by force
the Government of
the United States, or
to levy war against
them, or
to oppose by force
the authority
thereof, or by force
to prevent, hinder, or delay
the execution of any law of
the United States, or by force
to seize,
take, or p
mircea_popescu: "Three members pled guilty
to possessing a machine gun and were sentenced
to
time served."
mircea_popescu: On March 28, 2010, nine members of
the Hutaree militia were arrested and charged with crimes including seditious conspiracy.
mircea_popescu: Ms. Berg was represented by
the ACLU. Charges were dropped in 2006.
mircea_popescu: Laura Berg, a nurse at a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs hospital in New Mexico was investigated for sedition in September 2005 after writing a letter
to
the editor of a local newspaper, accusing several national leaders of criminal negligence.
Though
their action was later deemed unwarranted by
the director of Veteran Affairs, local human resources personnel
took it upon
themselves
to request an FBI investigation.
trinque: midnightmagic: what in
the fuck
treason do you
think you've committed by being within earshot of a discussion of history
mircea_popescu: midnightmagic im sure
the usg
thinks it can do anything it pleases.
midnightmagic: I'm not sure but I
think
that non-US citizens can't be
tried for
treason..
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "he bitchslapped
the officer with a large print version of
the complete
tax code"