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mircea_popescu: for my sins,
this query is readily but abundantly satisfied.
bounce: too clean
to understand
this
bounce: until your neighbours call
the cops
to report a disturbance of
the peace?
undata: bounce: I chant "outlier" at night
to help myself sleep.
bounce: you can
take
the man out of florida, but can you
take florida out of
the man?
undata: mircea_popescu: was born in florida;
this checks out
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mircea_popescu: wait,
this is a disease you don;t have but gets you welfare ?
assbot: But You Dont Look Sick? support for
those with invisible illness or chronic illness
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those with invisible illness or chronic illness
bounce: that's like, really useful if you're
trying
to manage your shop over dhcp
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Twitter before some griefer /squatter did.
Then put a
Twitterfeed
to push
tweets from
the RSS feed. When you want
the
twitter acct, let me know what e-mail
to assign it
to. It can't be an e-mail already used for any other
twitter account.
bounce: well,
there's
these cheap chinese boxes
that come without MAC assigned; somewhere on bootup it'll just make one up
undata: death
to centralized number peddlers
bounce wasn't
too impressed by
that move
bounce: they're apparently about
to run out of numbers. so
they
tack on
three digits for a net gain of one bit
bounce: ISBN blocks come in variable sizes. forgot
the size of
the price structure.
bounce: for comparison, OUIs cost $1250 last
time I checked
bounce: (there was a guy
that did exactly
that, expressly for hobbyist purposes, but he got shot down, I
think)
bounce: well, yes,
they probably should sell, say, fractional VIDs (VID+16 PIDs or so) for a nicely small fraction of
the cost
bounce: uh, no.
they're faking
the ftdi vid/pid so
the driver'll work
bounce: I'm oblivious as
to
the drama
that spawned
this
assbot: Our plan of action :
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mike_c: yeah but
they didn't have symmetric
two way pegs.
bounce: not
that I paid attention
the first
time around, mind.
mike_c: also requires a "soft-fork" of bitcoin, but don't worry,
that's not as bad as a hard fork.
bounce: this
that old
thing again or did someone do a similar
thing anew?
mike_c: sidechains! pegged
to bitcoin! don't worry about
the fact
that it won't fucking work and
the sidechains will collapse. we'll figure something out.
bounce: so save us four minutes and
tell us why?
mircea_popescu: if someone makes a powerpoint
they may be worth a fuck, but if someone makes a pdf its not worth your
time.
mike_c: you don't want
to read it anyway
bounce: ``The licence only allows use of
the Software with, and
the Software will only work with Genuine FTDI Components (as defined in
the Licence
Terms). Use of
the Software as a driver for a component
that is not a Genuine FTDI Component MAY IRRETRIEVABLY DAMAGE
THAT COMPONENT.'' -- well,
they did do and went covered
their arse.
mircea_popescu: bingo's just as
tortured, but it looks maybe more fit
to
thrive.
BingoBoingo: Magnuson–Moss Warranty Act would prolly be
the way
to protect your bootleg usb chips in US court
mircea_popescu: you know,
the same way "phenotypically divergent" does not necessarily mean an extremely skinny chick with extremely large
tits and improbably long legs. it could also mean disproportionately large head
bounce: prolly not.
tortuous
to say
the least. but lots of legal wrangling is exactly
that.
mircea_popescu: my point was entirely
that
the first sale
thing prolly won't
take you far.
bounce: anyhow, I get where
they're coming from but it's still a dodgy move.
bounce: not sure if it'd make sense
to even put
the defense on first sale, but worth a shot.
bounce: hm. I don't
think
they've been gone after, have
they?
mircea_popescu: be like, "yeah, it's a fake, but you can't do jack because
this guy paid
that guy
ten bux for it."
mircea_popescu: for
that matter, it'd be funny if
the first sale doctrine protected
the owners of counterfit gucci bags.
bounce: er. how did
the owner say "yes please?", given
that
they evidently didn't see it coming?
bounce: the owner will still have
to voluntarily submit
the product back
to
the vendor.
mircea_popescu: you may recall a deffective automobile even if
the owner is
the owner not you
bounce: by
the
time
the driver hits
the owner is
the client, not
the fake vendor nor
the real vendor
bounce: first sale doctrine probably says "no"
though. but oh so
tempting.
bounce: and, hm, if
the device proclaims
to be vendor x / product y,
then does
the vendor have a right
to say "but I didn't make
this,
this is fake. not my product" and set product id
to 0?
bounce: setting product id
to 0. didn't know
they even had programmable vid/pid
bounce wouldn't be surprised
to learn
the chips bricked
themselves because
they're not up
to spec
bounce: actually bricking? oh dear.
that is maybe a little
too enthousiastic. but
the poor chinese copies claiming
to be ftdi
then only implementing half
the stuff and causing
trouble
that reflects badly on ftdi would
tire me out, honestly.
mircea_popescu: in
the sense
that if i donate
to
the bitcoin foundation a btc and consider maybe donating another 100 in
time
mircea_popescu: los_pantalones uhm... from what i hear
the 50 mn reports may be grossly exaggerated.
thickasthieves: <+kakobrekla> blockstream has nice logo -- not bad, i'd have gone for less segments in
the icon
mircea_popescu: "Jorge
Timón Co-Founder Jorge
Timón is a software engineer with 4 years of experience at Indra, working on big international projects including software for several insurance companies."
mircea_popescu is seriously considering expanding
the derps.
this is good shit.
mircea_popescu: los_pantalones o no fucking way,
they got like a dozen and
they're all co founders and supposedly equally so ?!
thickasthieves: <+asciilifeform> ditch
the fractional versions. 1, 2, 3, infinity. natural numbers. /// yeah, see
mircea_popescu: los_pantalones well, prolly not
the same, but intel has "The latest
Tweets from Francesca Hall (@FrancescaHRH). In
the semi final heat for Miss England 2015 "
to share.
thickasthieves: <+mike_c> hey
thickasthieves, wake up and back me up.
this
things needs different branding. /// well i
think
the whole .0.0 whatever shit is retarded
mircea_popescu: i want some smart chicks
that become experts in complex systems and chaos
theory over a semester
BingoBoingo: Except each side chain gets
their own deedbot?
mircea_popescu: "Francesca Hall Co-Founder Since joining Blockstream as
team coordinator, she has become an expert in complex systems, chaos
theory, system automation, and large scale organizational challenges"
BingoBoingo: Wait, isn't sidechains just namecoin or any other merge mined
thing, but without history?
los_pantalones: on
the phone was
told 'a bunch of people from bitcoin core dev'
mircea_popescu: los_pantalones so basically.. maxwell, wuille
towards
the end, and WHO ARE
THESE PEOPLE lol
undata: mike_c: yes one way, but certainly not
the only
mike_c: <+undata> in
that
there will always be ways
to break
things, and always a need for fixes << yeah.. one way
to break
things is
to add "fixes"
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