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undata: as for me, I keep myself moving hoping to strike at the thing myself someday
mircea_popescu: "He then tried to pay with PayPal, and we unsuspended the machines. About 6 hours later the payments were disputed with PayPal as unauthorized and we then suspended again." << wow, carding too ?!
decimation: asciilifeform: as in soft leather cover?
asciilifeform: just the same as alpha centauri to me.
mircea_popescu: "Many people spent a big chunk of their lives investing in this dream and it didn't pan out quite as we wish."
assbot: ClubOrlov: Business as usual
asciilifeform: ^ http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2014/04/business-as-usual.html
asciilifeform: as if they needed money.
asciilifeform: the sooner 'browser' dies as a paradigm, the better:
asciilifeform confesses to being rather uninterested in ugly-as-sin www browsing
decimation: like, as a flat text file or something?
ben_vulpes: as opposed to BDB
AdamIRAway: Our Compliance Specialist has a lot of experience in compliance obviously, and through her we have engaged Baker & McKenzie for specialised legal advice as required.
AdamIRAway: Thirdly. Nobody hired a "couple of software dudes and a clueless legal chick", as you described...
AdamIRAway: decimation... Pwc will be auditing our finances, and we will make their report available. We are looking to engage them to audit our XBT reserves as well shortly. We aren't currently transparent day-to-day regarding our reserves/balances, but it is obviously something we will be looking to do shortly after our launch.
asciilifeform: 'As progressively dumber programmers build progressively more complex systems we will see more of this kind of attempt to paper over coding mistakes with lawyers, sanctions, policies, and laws. Hollywood and the RIAA are usually the most successful at getting the government to do their bidding. Thus I predict that one day Disney will have a Web site where you can buy access to any of their movies. Because all ☟︎☟︎☟︎
AdamIRAway: decimation... it's important to take KYC/AML seriously, in order for us to work with banks. We do our best to make it as painless as possible for our clients, if we can.
AdamIRAway: 2. Rather than launch something quickly, we developed an enterprise level trading system over a period of twelve months and followed best practice in software development to develop a platform that we believe is secure, robust and stable. My own background as well as that of our CTO is in enterprise software development, and previously worked for many financial institutions in Australia.
asciilifeform: 'One Romanian hacker was lured to Boston by Secret Service Special Agent Matt O'Neill, who used the Internet to pose as a woman and invite the cybercriminal on a trip to the USA to enjoy gambling and romance. "He was quite surprised that I was the one meeting him when he arrived," said O'Neill, who worked on the case for months.' << lol, is anyone actually this stupid? even sp4mz0rs?
danielpbarron: what is it with people pronouncing '0' as 'oh'?
mircea_popescu: but as is, it's all the same thing, aka news.
cazalla: mike_c, which pete linked to but it's a commentary and as news alone, i don't think anyone cares what someone said regarding bitcoin so it could only be commentary on qntra
mike_c: or, to rephrase. a news article shouldn't have as much of a slant as a blog post.
mike_c: should the news have as much of a slant as a blog post?
kakobrekla: he ends with 'im sure we will be getting in more details as we get them.'
asciilifeform: my father, as a private in soviet army, was trained, like many others, to take out 'silo' type missile installations with ordinary grenade. (how? jam the door by propping small explosive, e.g., grenade, under one rail. tricky bit is to get to the damn thing, across an ocean and under guard...)
asciilifeform: bunker << if against usg - grave. marauders - sure, so long as you have independent air, water, fuel, food supplies.
kakobrekla: letting a room from its owner at that time. According to Blaauw, Kamphuis seized on the image of the bunker as a marketing tool to attract Russian and Chinese clients who wanted a secure place to host their websites. “It’s time to put an end to the fairy tale,” Blaauw says.
assbot: CyberBunker: Hacking as Performance Art - Businessweek
kakobrekla: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-04-04/cyberbunker-hacking-as-performance-art
bounce: why are you spamming this in as many channels as you can?
morgan-freeman_: well, I don't know but there is only a horse manure as a choice.. once I saw an elephant shit on one site, but no bitcoins
dr_love: kakobrekla: ye, I like the way his movies aren't intended as message films. it's more like art, really
kakobrekla: dead men being lulzy as fuck
mircea_popescu: Once the SWAT team reached the bunker's blast doors, they 'knock' to announce their presence. It is unclear exactly what they say, as no sound is recorded from the surveillance system. CyberBunker is equipped with an advanced Intruder Detection System (IDS), however due to a testing drill the previous night the IDS system was accidentally left in the inactive mode. Two SWAT officers are seen to hit the blast door of th ☟︎
mircea_popescu: they may just as well play dice in that interval for better EV
PinkPosixPXE: Well.. since it's my first, I figure you can at least cut and scrap what you don't like. But I wanted to include as much as I could, didn't realize it'd be so long, heh..
mircea_popescu: dr_love basically it's a marketing wrapper on top of a dice site. best work as a promoter then i guess.
kakobrekla: dunno, with hosting providers having the margins same as the fees of bitcoin exchanges
PinkPosixPXE: I will openly admit I am still learning, and new, but will try to avoid putting my foot in my mouth too much :P. I've combed over all the wiki's for bt-otc and bt-assets, and am going through the 6 months of logs as I find time.
kakobrekla: hm i have a different recollection but could as well be wrong
mod6: as in artillary?
mircea_popescu: what they opine as to how either of those should work, well... i'm a believer in free speech just as much as the next guy.
bounce: look here, the guy's proposing lots of regs so he can make his mark on history. then he can do one of two things: more regs, recommending less regs. what he cannot possibly do is keep regulatory levels the same as federal requirements because that deprives him of making his mark on history.
bounce: the regulators really don't care what they're regulating, as long as they can make you dance on their regulation strings. what are we regulating this thing for again?
mircea_popescu: because out of the fifty billion idiots that are nevertheless certified as economists by the us paper mill
mircea_popescu: "Why are you lying ?" is a good start. "Why are you acting as if Bitcoin were a USG project ? It's not, you are."
mircea_popescu: just as well you might be saying "the world wil not be sustainable if there's not more social justice"
thestringpuller: Like MIT but not as cold.
mircea_popescu: so as to what, cover a career built on a deserved reputation for insight under a pile of senile ridicule ?
BingoBoingo: Ah, then now writing Housing market stalls as payments stop
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo and lemme guess, currently being workt on is assbot: House purchases on hold as real-time payment system goes offline - Telegraph ?
mircea_popescu: bloomberg isn't as well kept as the wot.
mircea_popescu: assbot: Kraken Considers Purchasing MtGox Assets As It Pushes Into Japan | Qntra.net << ok, this i don't get.
ThickAsThieves: "China got its first official shipments of new iPhones last week, but a new report from web censorship watchdog Great Fire indicates Chinese users may be facing an unpleasant surprise when they try to connect to Apple services at large. As of last night, the Chinese firewall is blocking all local connections to iCloud.com, redirecting those connections to a dummy site designed to look
assbot: House purchases on hold as real-time payment system goes offline - Telegraph
cazalla: yeah, i've read to my son almost every day since he was born, teach him basic sign language as well but he just turned 9 months and is yet to use it, i've read the bright kids usually pick it up sooner
assbot: Kraken Considers Purchasing MtGox Assets As It Pushes Into Japan | Qntra.net
cazalla: http://qntra.net/2014/10/kraken-considers-purchasing-mtgox-assets-as-it-pushes-into-japan/
mircea_popescu: "CloudFlare is a venture-funded startup that routes around Internet abuse by acting as a reverse proxy." wait wut ?
punkman: "Envato expires cash deposits automatically after one year as a small percentage of users leave money in their account for long periods of time and cannot be contacted. Unfortunately Envato cannot be responsible for holding cash for indefinite periods"
cazalla: the company never gives specific information as to whether they mine on their own or part of a pool or how much hashing power they have
cazalla: it is published on the asx so just as good
PinkPosixPXE: mircea_popescu: I'll send you 0.1 BTC, same deal, if you provide me with some WOT rank, and if you want to do some personal shots, with a string of my choice, that's highly encouraged as well.
PinkPosixPXE: mircea_popescu: I'll send you 0.1BTC if you throw me some rank, you can send me pictures of your titties as well, with a string of text written on them. ;)
undata: well, that's as long as you're taking your colloidal silver too
jurov: after some googling, no it isn't working smoothly with grsec. as expected from #devops
kakobrekla: anywho, atc ended ... as expected.
mircea_popescu: diametric> running processes as root requires root. news at 11. <<
diametric: running processes as root requires root. news at 11.
assbot: The woes of Altcoin, or why there is no such thing as “cryptocurrencies” pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2014/the-woes-of-altcoin-or-why-there-is-no-such-thing-as-cryptocurrencies/ << twas on trilema months ago neh ?
assbot: Logged on 07-09-2014 18:02:43; mircea_popescu: in practice it's used as an aes hole. but yes.
mats_cd03: id be rly impressed if he could manage dox seeing as how i pay up my bouncer with a prepaid card
mircea_popescu: it isn't, and they get caught all up in that process as if it were something.
jurov: no, it's nobody from here. as i wrote just above, indices lead to lennart poettering
asciilifeform: what counts as 'dox' ?
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: As requested http://qntra.net/2014/10/daniel-j-bernstein-speeks-on-keeping-crypto-insecure/
kakobrekla: can you throw all you got at logs and keep it at full as long as you can?
gribble: CAUTION: irc nick differs from otc registered nick. Nick 'mats_cd03', with hostmask 'mats_cd03!sid23029@gateway/web/irccloud.com/x-lexoqakyeznnmfjo', is identified as user 'mats', with GPG key id B9527964891A5566, key fingerprint B37F49DC35FD838B1F8783CC59C93F63549036BD, and bitcoin address None
undata: ben_vulpes: WAL log, postgres-as-OS :p
xanthyos: i gotta tell you i've always been a liberal but the way the left is handling this ebola thing as a race issue makes me fucking crazy
xanthyos: i think jesus was unclear as well, and that's why he signed a new contract with verizon
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: the 'method' idea is possibly lifted from the jewish tradition (where you are not, in fact, asked to believe in god, but to simply carry out the program, as i understand.) << errything's lifted from judaism.
mircea_popescu: as anything made by men who are not cool enough to live with cocksucking sluts is suspect.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: only because no one yet has the audacity to list usg payola as 'profit' << ahaha this'll be fun
asciilifeform: as in all software.
asciilifeform: undata: the idea, as described on my site, is deadly-simple - no need for server, you 'speak' by sending btc to an address. others 'hear' by seeing what was sent. if the channel owner (owner of privkey to address) decides that you are persona non grata, you never see your coin again. otherwise, it is sent back after a while.
asciilifeform: that is, will operate precisely as intended while the latter does.
asciilifeform: undata: point of gedankenexperiment was to propose a telegraph which is exactly as strong as bitcoin in every technical aspect.
mircea_popescu: as in,
bounce: I don't even mind fingerprints as such that much -- when used as corroborating evidence established by an expert -- but wholesale fingerprinting of everyone for essentially no reason ("passing customs") and automated "matching" is an enabler for insidious systemic malice that really is a problem on its own.
asciilifeform: not entirely the same thing (though usually presented as similar)
decimation: lol "As Western intelligence services continued to register successes with the polygraph as a counterintelligence tool, Soviet propaganda on polygraph machines changed from "bourgeois hoaxes" to (tested research devices.)
asciilifeform: i'd imagine modern ru has adopted the ritual. just the same as 'everything western' was lifted, for good or ill, in the '90s.
asciilifeform: the 'method' idea is possibly lifted from the jewish tradition (where you are not, in fact, asked to believe in god, but to simply carry out the program, as i understand.)
bounce: or, as the case may be, fraud with cards and such
asciilifeform: and not simply a device for fooling jury (not all jurisdictions have jury trials) but for eliciting confession through intimidation (as 'lie detector' was once used for)
bounce: fingerprints work reasonably well as criminal corrobating evidence. as soon as that gets forgotten that the matching is taken as a binary guilty decision, then we have guaranteed miscarriages of justice all over
chetty: well as soon as there is fingerprint evidence on someone they want to get off