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thestringpuller: "Why don't we just shoot nuclear waste of our atmosphere and into
the Sun?" "Because it's stupid expensive and it's stupid dangerous if a rocket blows up on
the launchpad. Please don't do
this."
mircea_popescu adds Annie Yousar
to
the list of women in
tech he likes.
mircea_popescu: unemployed actors have always been indistinguishable from bums.
this for very good reason, without
this mud on
the pond bottom, no lotus.
adlai: garzacoin shilling is getting quite intense,
though. i've even met irl paycoin shills at a local meetup, and it's sad how clueless
they are of
their role in
the larger scam (or sad how
they can't get a decent stage acting gig, and have
to do
this shit instead)
mircea_popescu: "Because OpenSSL gently handles leading zero bytes in a private key, I'm quite sure
that a correction of
the EC key encoding has no impact."
mircea_popescu: decimation: it would probably be okay for dictating an email or whatever <<
this mostly exposes
the unfounded belief
that coding is for men while emails is for women. in point of fact, adding an extra byte error in some derpy code is irrelevant. for one
thing, it would not be
the only one. for another
thing, it's just code. meanwhile, i shudder at
the
thought of byte errors in my emails.
adlai is so glad
that he's not paying for his miami btc attendance
mircea_popescu: undata: mats: was
there some more specific strategy with
the brick
than "fuck
this wrist..." ? << i also
think
the guy had
the right idea. "when confronted with bullshit, escalate."
assbot: Logged on 22-12-2014 02:21:10; decimation: some bum who camps next
to
the George Washington bridge also has 300,000 'views' per day -
that doesn't
transform him into a 'profitable business'
mircea_popescu: mats:
then shadowban 90% of posters <<< can only shadowban 10% of users. because percents, and "new version of
the world"
assbot: Logged on 21-12-2014 18:02:01; asciilifeform: which, it
turns out,
the systemd pushers reflexively defended as a feature.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: 'Please could we stick
to
the
technical aspects of
this problem. Attempts
to apportion responsibilty rarely lead anywhere.' << immediately shoot in
the head anyone saying
this. help make
the world a better place.
mircea_popescu: the problem with
those being singularly
that
they diverge from
the world.
mircea_popescu: except
the usg is not a version of
the world, it's merely a version of graham & co's beliefs.
mircea_popescu: he succeeded as an easy money usg moocher, which is i suppose something he justifies
to himself as "being an expert in a later version of
the world"
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes "To some extent, yes. I spent almost a decade investing in early stage startups, and curiously enough protecting yourself against obsolete beliefs is exactly what you have
to do
to succeed as a startup investor." << yes, you miss
the part where he never succeeded as a start-up investor.
mircea_popescu: decimation: asciilifeform: either from ore or paying
the ransom required
to get intel et. al.
to completely open
the design for a chipset <<< or else simply sony-ing it.
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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: afaik every word of
the history of
the
two koreas available in
the english language, since
the first days leading up
to
the war, is a cheap fabrication.<< in no way different from
the same words available in juche language
mircea_popescu: i'd watch
that, and
that's
the first entertainment sony ever made
that i'd watch.
mircea_popescu: that'd be
the lulz of all
time
tho, sony sueing microsoft for lost revenues etc.
mircea_popescu: decimation: no word on whether microsoft is going
to be held liable for ridiculously poor engineering < :)))
cazalla: mircea_popescu, i can't discount
the chance you served
that up specifically
to my ip, who knows eh
mircea_popescu: and all
the agents involved, as well as
the plethora of idiots, will just duly update
their cv
to reflect
their certified expertise and act as if you know,
they know shit.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: But
this way
they win
the SEO
mircea_popescu: decimation: asciilifeform: I doubt
there will be a 'day of reckoning' w.r.t.
tor. it will just
turn off and
the derps will move on << pretty much exactly.
cazalla: well, i always wanted
to be a farmer!
mircea_popescu: what will it do in 2025, when you will ostensibly still wish
to eat ?
to avoid daily beatings ?
to not be fed, live,
to specially prepared hungry pigs ?
mircea_popescu: how secure can one feel, as a mid range us bureaucrat, given
these revelations ?
the usg can not protect you, yo.
mircea_popescu: note it
took
them HALF A YEAR
to figure out we actually do know where
they live.
assbot: Logged on 07-02-2014 15:23:38; mircea_popescu: next step : Bitcoin regulates
the USG.
mircea_popescu: decimation: It's good
that reporters apologize for asking questions, makes
the situation clear for
the little people <<< seriously, since when does
the press EVEN GO
to prepared statement and catering sort of affairs ?
mircea_popescu: the fbi as it currently stands has not
the werewithal
to extract itself from a paper bag. and i mean
that literally, if i kidnapped
them all and dropped
them in rural kansas
they'd prolly never make it back
to headquarters.
mircea_popescu: that stuff happens once all
the actual agents left, and
the remaining bureaucrats understandably have no self respect or career spirit.
mircea_popescu: i mean, seriously. what agency in
the history of
that business would ever, under any circumstances, make such a ridiculous blunder ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform seriously, if
this meta-nsa exists, how come
the fbi is
this impotent ?
assbot: Logged on 20-12-2014 03:10:14; decimation:
http://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/update-on-sony-investigation <<
there is an air of desperation here: "Sony reported
this incident within hours, which is what
the FBI hopes all companies will do when facing a cyber attack. Sony’s quick reporting facilitated
the investigators’ ability
to do
their jobs, and ultimately
to identify
the source of
these attacks."
mircea_popescu: "kakobrekla: On a good note, Judge Rakoff called me a brilliant visionary and
that he admires my brainpower. #bitcoin" << shrem's retarded, basically.
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mircea_popescu: im sure it'll work out so very differently from
the first version, because yes,
totally, people matter and
their desires change reality.
mircea_popescu: so basically doge v2.0, because
the fucktards must have a "moon rocket".
mircea_popescu: "Hey friends, reddit cryptocurrency engineer here.
The post is deliberately vague about
technology and legal. For one, we're holding back on committing
to a particular
technology just because
the bitcoin world changes very fast, and we want
to make sure we pick
the right choice. However, almost certainly it will be either colored coins or sidechains."
mircea_popescu: "The nation would be well-served
to elevate Bharara from
the "Sheriff of Wall Street"
to chief federal law-enforcement officer."
mircea_popescu: they even have
the unmitigated audacity
to add
that violation of
the indian diplomat on his cv as if it were a positive.
mircea_popescu: yep,
the roland freiser
thing is quite on point. fucking fatlogic, well done cnn.
mircea_popescu: "10 reasons Preet Bharara should be
the next attorney general" "Investment banks were most responsible for
the devastating economic downturn, yet
the costs of
their opportunistic behavior were placed on
the shoulders of everyday Americans, who lost jobs, retirement savings, and confidence in
the market."
mircea_popescu: "This was a single Windows executable with well over a hundred man-years of blood, sweat and
tears invested in it." idiot, srsly.
mircea_popescu: the guy's lying
through his
teeth, michael o church style ?
mircea_popescu: "They spent several months
testing my code, comparing its performance with
their old database, which was pretty primitive but known
to be reliable." vs "If
their application went down for even a day, it would cost
them hundreds of
thousands of dollars.
This was a common occurrence, as
their existing application was pretty buggy."
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: BitBet mixer is why I
thought prop stakes were refunded minus fee <<
that's like advanced class.
mircea_popescu: "hi, i had my
tits done at your clinic
two weeks ago but my husband left me for a younger woman anyway so i'd like a refund now because you didn't provide a service".
mircea_popescu: i suppose if
there wasn't an obamacare "you don't have
to pay your own medical bills"
the us consumer'd "have come
to expect"
that he only pays if
the surgery/treatment is successful.
mircea_popescu: i suppose providing a service doesn't count as providing a service except in
those cases where
the beneficiary is happy with
the outcome or something ?
mircea_popescu: crybabi: but i won't be using bitbet again, charging a fee when you don't provide a service is no way
to run a business << o.O
mircea_popescu: decimation mats :
the situation with freenode is
that it's basically a sinking ship / abandoned
tech.
the few hanger ons do not actually have
the werewithal
to do anything other
than push
the levers, which
they sort-of understand how
to do, but various rooms are constantly being sealed off because "it's
too much". it's indubitable
that freenode will eventually sink, and it won't
take it decades, for
this very reason.
mircea_popescu: same reason napoleon
tried
to invade moscow not magnitogorsk, same reason
the barricades went up in paris not derpue-sur-herpoise
mircea_popescu: decimation: although one wonders why mr. spam
targets
this channel instead of -otc <<
this is worth something.
mircea_popescu: "asciilifeform: no actual human
transmits $maxint whatevers from a single ip per second/hour/etc" except a) yes
they do and b) 4kb should be enough for everyone.
mircea_popescu: there's also 723 pieces of email
thanking me or otherwise discussing
the wordpress hole. since
the 16th.
mircea_popescu: there's like... 6 different ones from ninjashogun AFTER hanbot wrote
that post.
mircea_popescu: occasionally
there's some sec "senior attorney" gofer.
the vast majority is X dude who doesn't like
the fact
that
trilema maintains a copy of whatever stupid evil shit he did a few years ago and figures "hey, a few years ago means it never happened"
cazalla: none of any interest
then i
take it
mircea_popescu: cazalla i get between a few and a dozen poorly cobbled
together "legal
threats" each week.
cazalla: coinfire, bitcointalk, bitcoin forum all get garza legal
threats.. qntra? nothing, anything pop up in your inbox mircea_popescu ?
mircea_popescu: PeterL: so instead of just saying "eauth peterl", now we will say "eauth peterl <signature by key goes here>"? << conceivably, you'd say something like .rate url exactly hjow notary bot [used
to] work
mircea_popescu: nanotube: it is being worked on. but have a lot of other stuff on my plate. once everything is signed,
there will not even be a need for something like "auth". <<<
this is a good point. having identity implemented as a stateful
thing is mindboggling anyway. stuff like cloaks and so on pale in comparison.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: even if you do,
there is no guarantee
that other readers see
the same
thing you see << yeah,
there is.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: re: wot: (question
to all present) - how often do you re-read your own wot history? << weekly.
mircea_popescu: security is not reducible
to "build a really
thick steel plate"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: PeterL: you have
to - yes. mr i-owned-fleanode nsa clerk - no. <<< yes, let him do
this, love
to see it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: (i'd love
to hear a rationale for it) << people other
than nanotube are keeping
track of
the various scammers
trying
to use gribble.
mircea_popescu: there's a lot of benefit for any 7yo in having a close friend
that lost some appendages
to heavy machinery.
mircea_popescu: mike_c:
that sucks <<
there's a lot more depth
to
this point
than meets
the eye. us children are inept
these days first and foremost because
they have been removed from
the workplace in
the 50s and 60s, under
the guise of "safety" and
the general nonsense where "Everything must be separated"
that also yielded zoning laws etc.
mircea_popescu: mike_c:
the solution being, we lock
them out. << "if we kill all
the babies, we will in fact have reduced infant mortality
to an unmatchable 0 in subsequent years"