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BingoBoingo: It's
taken some
time getting
the right balance of dense enough and informative enough for newswriting
BingoBoingo: Honestly I
think
they do it
to get rid of whatever wine wasn't selling.
BingoBoingo: My favorite liquor store for
the second year in a row gifted me with a bottle of wine and a girly calendar when I came in for cigarettes.
BingoBoingo: So
Today I came out once again net positive in
the course of my Christmas shopping.
mod6: asciilifeform: are you going
to b-a?
kakobrekla: but now im stuck with it as
the
thing wont amortize over 750k years
kakobrekla bought
the car back in
the year when btc was 10bux or smth
jurov: 500? you bought
tesla?
kakobrekla: i paid 500 btc for
the car but no
taxes.
jurov: yea i know. i am fine with 25k eur before
taxes
this year, even paid part of a new car from
that
xanthyos: there's an appeal
to
the pageantry of misery
jurov: lol i'm a miser
too... why you
though otherwise?
dignork: hey, i'm not a miser, just not
too wealthy :)
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I don't
think people really stay in
this channel unless
they are misers.
jurov: good
to know, i'm not going either
jurov: kakobrekla: do you have prepared cover story when flying
to argentina?
dignork: jurov: gift cards are not for you, hopefully you don't need
this bizarre substitute :)
dignork: jurov: sorry
to hear
that, i like coinbr
thestringpuller: thx for
the extended
transparency and due diligence with your fiduciary duty
jurov: and i had inquiries like "we want api for coinbr" me: "it is possible, just very ratelimited... let's do it
together, can you do 100BTC volume?"
jurov: <mike_c> [20141223 14:37] have you ever
thought about adding
the ability
to short mpex stocks
to coinbr? << coinbr is on hold atm. on one side it didn't make almost anything
this year, on other side mpex is just not
there reliability wise for solid service
thestringpuller: It was
the day before X-Mas, all was silent, even in #b-a. Nothing stirred, not even a bot.
jurov: coinbr s.mpoe divs finally paid.
to compensate for
the waiting,
twice
the amount ;)
jurov: <mircea_popescu> somehow nobody goes "o look, mp paid 100s of btc so bitcoin financial space may exist" << you know,
that space practically does not exist for
them
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BingoBoingo: It's interesting how in
the US
the
title Secretary of State can alternately refer
to
the chief cocksucker at
the Federal level and at
the state level
the chief Notarizing authority.
decimation: asciilifeform: wrt
the state department, anything important being discussed with us 'trade partners' is discussed by private parties conducting
the
trade
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Well, in
the same way plot from "Watchmen" would be effective.
assbot: The Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity : Cold War Spy Games Show
the Moral Bankruptcy of
the US National Security State ... (
http://bit.ly/1xJY9SR )
decimation: the result was largely: bureaucrats who appear
to be idiots in public also are in fact idiots in private
decimation: actually mr. assange already performed
this experiment
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Effective leak would be
that reptillians exist and are in panic because of impending Avian
threat.
decimation: actually usg would be much better off if it simply disbanded
the department of state
BingoBoingo wonders if soon after releasing Cardano, S.NSA will release a Maldardano sample
tampered Cardano for people
to practice searching for
turditions on.
decimation: asciilifeform: ah good point. you are saying
the entire state dept. doesn't matter
decimation: one wonders how many billions were spent
to deploy
the secure facilities
that
they fail
to use
decimation: asciilifeform: My point is
that no one in
the entire us media 'noticed'
that
the intercept (which was supposedly sophisticated) came from usg 'leaders'
talking on unsecure lines
BingoBoingo: Microphoneless smart Pnohe is
the way
to Pnohe, because BB pager recieves calls, records a message.
To return calls you battery up a flip phone.
BingoBoingo: joecool: I don't have problems with big UX changes. I care more about what is happening and why. Unsolder
the microphone and camera in old blackberry, works as a pager like god intended. Unsolder camera and microphone in shitty LG android phone doesn't work as pager or play angry birds!
decimation: principal with
the Chertoff Group, a Washington-based consulting firm led by former senior U.S. security and intelligence officials."
joecool: otherwise i never would have considered blackberry, it's a shame
they have a worthless marketing division
joecool: the whole style of UX on BB10 is very similar
to
the nokia n9's harmattan
BingoBoingo: joecool: Ah, before I did BBOS 7 I was on Symbian whatever and
then Android.
joecool: oh see i hated BBOS7, i came from
the harmattan/maemo background prior
decimation: one gets
the picture
that usg 'leaders'
think of
themselves as being above such
trivialities as secure communications
joecool: i like my Z10
tbh, only
thing i'd improve is better battery life, i'm a bit concerned by some of
the new "features" coming down in 10.3.x releases
BingoBoingo: decimation: Nothing wrong with Nation State actors working
to keep
tabs on Nation State actors.
BingoBoingo: I have
to confess
the new blackberry classic does
tempt... But for extra antifeatures over flip phone is unappealing.
decimation: because it contained
too many 'antifeatures'
decimation: except
that's probably
the retard version
decimation: asciilifeform: it's possible
that at least someone inside usg who was charged with developing secure computing actually got somewhere
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform:
Teletype (paper) display, commodore 64
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I
thought "trojan" was falling out of fashion because fashion is now
to go cloud where it is given
that Eve already has root.
decimation: asciilifeform: I
think it's
the case
that
there is (or was) some meta-usg lab
that could conceive and develop secure
terminal - perhaps already has
decimation: the fbi claims it was an email attachment
that dropped some scanners
that guess passwords
to smb shares
decimation: that's
the midget
that
the usg has squashed by sitting on
the computer industry stool
decimation: imagine if
the billions poured into 'cybersecurity' were spent on constructing an actual secure
terminal from first principles
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: But how often can actual exploit be
truly distinguished from McDonalds exploit fed
to
the consuminator?
decimation: asciilifeform: I agree with your hypothesis in
that I
think USG genuinely guides
the computer industry into insecurity
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: In
that case
there hasn't ever been an "attack" in
the history of
the internet
thestringpuller: I'm pretty sure
there is some privatize black site
that is superior
to USG version.
thestringpuller: BingoBoingo: it seems privatized groups are better at disappearing acts
than
the USG's agency.