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ascii_field: 'When JTRS started, software-defined radio (SDR) was still in its infancy. The project's SCA architecture allowed software to manipulate field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) in the radio hardware to reconfigure how its electronics functioned, exposing those FPGAs as CORBA objects. But when development began, hardware implementations of CORBA for FPGAs didn’t really exist in any standard form.'
<< giga-l0l!
hazirafel_: "mircea_popescu: recall the little quiz, where the kidz who made consistent errors usually passed the next 4 years, while of the shooters in the dark - none did [23:02]
<+ascii_field> (all of these with no prior experience programming)"
mod6: ascii_field tried last night to backport 'dumpprivkey' and 'importprivkey' from phoundation-0.7 and found that relevant data structures are entirely different
<< yeah, i found the same thing back 5-6 months ago when trying to do the same thing. glad there seems to be a workaround, i'm told.
punkman: mats: i'd suggest testing it yourself but nobody ever wants to actually buy msg
< I've bought a bag of msg, it's pretty great
BingoBoingo:
<funkenstein_> it grabs headers from several altcoins and estimates the current time
<< The proper way to build a clock is with brass, a lathe, and a steady hand
decimation: ftp://hpiers.obspm.fr/iers/bul/buld/bulletind.124
< after the leap second, DUT1 will be +0.3s
assbot: Logged on 18-06-2015 23:57:28; trinque: "to ascertain that their bitcoin holdings are not derived from the proceeds of crime."
<< hilarious
trinque: "to ascertain that their bitcoin holdings are not derived from the proceeds of crime."
<< hilarious
☟︎ assbot: Key F91576C7 / "AgentZero
<liberty@tuta.io>" successfully imported.
trinque: closer, but no
<> and no spaces
ag3nt_zer0: !register
<E3A4 9054 7D5E 8A59 0A56 08B0 C31C B3DF F915 76C7>
jurov: gpg --armor --sign --encrypt -R A179E169
< niggers.txt > encrypted.txt
ascii_field:
<nubbins`> regularly tested tabs and posted analysis
<< they aren't in my wot...
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: 'colorsmell'
<< as in what lsd users get ?
mircea_popescu:
<ascii_field> at what level of 'hardness' does it even make sense to retain the original blockchain, as opposed to full-bore altcoin slugfest ?
<< the fact that this question has not a good answer as of yet is perhaps the principal roadblock in the way of considering a hardfork at all.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo it's unlikely it'll roll over without complaint. for one thing what's 0xFFFF - 0x0000 ? is it
< 10 ?
mod6:
<+asciilifeform> ben_vulpes, mod6, mircea_popescu, kakobrekla, jurov, other folks with serious servers - who wants to volunteer for node duty ?
<< I think the Foundation will have one, and I'll run a separate one of my own I'm sure.
mod6:
<+hanbot> mod6 wunderbar! will be sure to pester as/if necessary. looks about a couple orders of magnitude slimmer than handbook at first glance, exciting
<< ah thx! yeah, just let me know if you run into any problems/questions.
BingoBoingo: "fine clay"
<< /me mostly considers lical jungle clay of which there is an abundance.
mircea_popescu:
<BingoBoingo> Now clay is a material with wildly inconsistent properties
<< the difference between properly fired fine clay and the bizarre ceramic-like metal replacement the chinese use is slight.
BingoBoingo: "clean-shaven white man"
<< So much suspicion avoided by keeping a beard
BingoBoingo:
<decimation> well, can put .22 in a pipe too
<< 12 ga better "pipe" caliber candidate
BingoBoingo:
<decimation> I wonder if you can also craft a suppressor yourself, to make the thing civilized?
<< paladin press torrent will yeild a bounty on this subject
assbot: Logged on 18-06-2015 00:35:22; BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> i suspect the usg policy against private small arms has finally found the chokehold : drive the manufacturers out of business.
<< Most of the good "Colt" designs are now made better by others. Argentinas Taurus is one.
mircea_popescu: trinque> knew NaCL was going to be activex-google-edition
<< word.
trinque: If this sounds depressing, do not worry. We will finally get to see how our Abrams Main Battle Tank holds up under state of the art airstrikes—because, ISIS now has 10 of those suckers and 100 more Humvees!
<< lol
pete_dushenski: "The Royal Bank of Scotland said on Wednesday that about 600,000 customer transactions had not been processed as a result of a technology failure overnight. The issue affected transactions at the company’s R.B.S., National Westminster Bank, Coutts and Ulster Bank brands."
<< wasn't there an old meme about 'bitcoin users not affected' ? seems appropriate here.
pete_dushenski: "Jimmy Lee was a vice chairman at JPMorgan Chase and was widely credited with developing the leveraged loan market in the United States."
<< dead at age 62.
BingoBoingo:
<ascii_field> but basic point - yes - need nodes, so can have usable default
<< As weaponixation approaches a suggested .conf updated occasionally may be welcome for maintained nodes but harder for pogo "fire and forget" nodes
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: ... program that depends on input to run was shipped broken
<< L0L!! 'cat' ships broken ?
mircea_popescu:
<mats> mighta had a chance if privately owned by black disabled lesbian
<< no. belgian firm has to import weapons, so they can be kept off mnarket. colt does not hyave to import anythinfg, can just turn around and sell. the usg will award no further contracts for anything to anyone who can also sell to us civillians, jus watch.
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> i suspect the usg policy against private small arms has finally found the chokehold : drive the manufacturers out of business.
<< Most of the good "Colt" designs are now made better by others. Argentinas Taurus is one.
☟︎ mircea_popescu:
<ascii_field> this will be a substantial change in default behaviour, because the thing ~will~ have to be given irc server params on command line, and/or seed ips, or ~will not run~
<< this is the wrong approach. config file, with sane defaults.
mircea_popescu:
<ascii_field> i consider this to be a necessary thing
<< it is.
mod6:
<+ascii_field> sometimes i log in from the car.
<< i can just imagine you driving around the beltway with your knee irc'ing from a phone.
pete_dushenski: "First two (DVD, CD) are used and play fine, 2nd two are sealed new (all DVDs). for each before shipping, and a $60 donation for each will be made to this pro-civil rights coalition that Zooey Deschanel, Nancy Sinatra, Michael Moore, and Joel McHale all oppose."
<< y'know, this could only work on tardstalk