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mircea_popescu: the advantage being that since one needs the whole bundle to verify the blockchain hash, everyone in the bundle has a vested interest to preserve the whole bundle
nanotube: ah so things get aggregated, cool
nanotube: how much extra spam will this cause in the blockchain?
mircea_popescu: so if you're willing to work with it, we can have a special ratings protocol. they're a lot more solid than gribble's.
mircea_popescu: basically this can be used to issue signed ratings.
mircea_popescu: nanotube it's a bot being written that will take gpog signed stuff, serialize it, hash it, insert the hash in the blockchain
nanotube: what's this bitcoin assets deeds registrar?
mircea_popescu: nanotube would you consider melding the bitcoin-assets deeds registrar into wot ?
gribble: if you can control the irc server sure, you can mitm all responses and modify them en route, etc.
mircea_popescu: aaactually... once the deeds bot comes online, it can work as a gribble substitute.
mircea_popescu: tho one hell of a coincidence, it practically started the same minute.
assbot: War of Life - Cellular automata to the death!
FabianB: hm. guess i need to improve the fallback
mircea_popescu: FabianB lemme guess, the health indicators don't roll over ?
mircea_popescu: so, mpex.ws is being ddosed, the rest are ok. thank you for flying or what was it.
mats_cd03: and lenovo support center i think
punkman: oh I've never installed that
mats_cd03: fun fact: a piece of lenovo windows crapware downloads an xml file over http then downloads and executes windows platform-specific binary. ☟︎
mats_cd03: ya corkami is the bees knees
punkman: I was looking at corkami's stuff the other day https://code.google.com/p/corkami/
mats_cd03: also discovered dis enhanced man page web thinger (im a nix scrub): explainshell.com
mats_cd03: decimation: https://www.alchemistowl.org/pocorgtfo/pocorgtfo03.pdf re: hooking rdrand to backdoor /dev/urandom on 3.12.8
assbot: I am a 14-year-old Yazidi girl given as a gift to an ISIS commander. Heres how I escaped. - The Washington Post
Vexual: a bit of the `ol "in-out" huh?
decimation: as long as there are no pathological correlations it will be fine for my purposes (anything that looks strange on a very large fft for instance)
asciilifeform: decimation: don't expect to discover anything useful from the output.
decimation: no I'm going to play with it, just wondered what you had discovered
decimation: asciilifeform: have you experimented with the intel 'rdrand' instruction?
asciilifeform knows more than he wants about the u.s. patent office
asciilifeform: likewise, a junior (less than x years, forget what x) official cannot pronounce judgement, he only forwards a recommendation 'approve/deny' to senior gruppenfuhrer.
asciilifeform: could, yes. and then overruled on appeal. (very embarrassing, if not career-ending event, for patent judge)
decimation: right, but they could walk in, hit 'approve' on all thier 'production', and go home for the day?
asciilifeform: patent office specifically proclaims that employees are retained & promoted based on piecework (their term, 'production')
asciilifeform: let's assume that each and every allegation in the piece - is true.
decimation: the 'blog' (is a blog post from wapo like a 'story lite'?) makes it seem like no one at the patent office has a relationship with reality
asciilifeform: implies (apologies to orwell) some actual relationship (if inverted) with fact.
asciilifeform: 'lying' is too charitable a word.
decimation: asciilifeform: "crock of shit" << are you saying that the 'whistleblowers' are lying?
asciilifeform: ;;later tell ben_vulpes your blog has been pwned? turned to spam for 'feedyes.com'.
asciilifeform: paranoids to accidents << not actually immune. just die happy.
asciilifeform: 'The examiner alerted a supervisor about the fraud, but “he says he cannot do anything as long as she meets her production,” the whistleblower wrote.' << how this is a problem ?
asciilifeform: (rather harsh ones, which is one reason for the famously poor quality of the judgements)
asciilifeform: the patent office thing is a crock of shit.
assbot: Patent office whistleblower: ‘Managers have no idea when their employees are working’ - The Washington Post
decimation: looks like the promised geomagnetic storm was mostly a dud: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/
mircea_popescu: worrywarts aren't immune to negative events, nor hypochondriacs to disease, nor paranoids to accidents.
asciilifeform: boulder falls on my head, i know what last thought i'll think!
mircea_popescu: doesn't work that way.
asciilifeform: the nice thing about being a hardened paranoiac is that you are effectively immune to accidental death...
asciilifeform: but a u.s. subject can die of lightning and car wreck a dozen times before getting 'accidentally policed' to death.
BingoBoingo: Of course the huy who zipped himself in had consented earlier in life to be a part of that apparatus and "quit"
BingoBoingo: decimation: Appelbaum wasn't in the UK though, but in the proto-USA
BingoBoingo: At least one must have worked. They didn't come back to take him out of the bag to normalize the sceen.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i bet the fellow who ended up in the famous bathtub duffel bag - had 17 systems, of which 15 failed. the remaining two, say? one at the bottom of the Thames, perhaps. one was built into his towel hanger and thrown out by landlord - blood wouldn't come off. (imagine.)
decimation: !up The20YearIRCloud
assbot: American shakedown: Police won't charge you, but they'll grab your money - World - CBC News
BingoBoingo: Who was it? Appelbaum? Who caught some invader in his apartment on his 4th surveillance system after the first 3 were incapacitated.
asciilifeform: 'found in toilet and in defendant's shoes'
asciilifeform: 'your Honour, i've a hidden camera in my toilet tank, it filmed the hextuple-orifice motorized police rape of my person.' judge: 'court orders that Sgt. Coquthrobb retrieve evidence...'
decimation: yeah I'm with mircea on this one, see the "keystone kops" above
mircea_popescu: dudes rutinely break down the wrong door they're too dumb/high/clueless
BingoBoingo: Because "Hello this is"
mircea_popescu: dude for crying out loud. you think there's five cops that know how to use one ?
mircea_popescu: eh get out, you hve to get a special permit for that.
asciilifeform: (among the surplus 'iraq gear' discussed earlier - certainly, jammers.)
asciilifeform: if not today - tomorrow.
BingoBoingo: cameras live to somewhere sure.
asciilifeform: afaik, they don't run a gigantic spark gap jammer during a bust - yet.
mircea_popescu: "all coms" is not something that can be destroyed.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: first thing they do is destroy all comms. this dates back to at least 'waco' incident.
BingoBoingo: Best defense is against US police seems to be not any fortress, but the threat of unknown cameras
BingoBoingo: decimation: They can find whatever esoteric paraphenenial in your tablets.
asciilifeform: usg will bust first, dekulakize second, and ask questions - third.
decimation: but you are making your own herbal remedies? what would usg have to say on the subject?
assbot: Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson reportedly indicted for child abuse in Texas.
BingoBoingo: So... USG and Libtards seem to have officially declared war on Running Backs: http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2014/09/12/minnesota_vikings_running_back_adrian_peterson_reportedly_indicted_for_child.html
asciilifeform: as in, who gets the 3am broken door and barrel in his mouth, and who doesn't
asciilifeform: there's 'law' and there's law, the actual.
asciilifeform: graphical terminals for proles, while having an actual computer in your possession will be seen as rather like owning, e.g., a Kugelrohr.
assbot: Ask Peter Thiel Anything « Isegoria
decimation: http://www.isegoria.net/2014/09/ask-peter-thiel-anything/ << "Is Palantir a front for the CIA? No, the CIA is a front for Palantir." "I don’t agree with the libertarian description of the NSA as “big brother.” I think Snowden revealed something that looks more like the Keystone Kops and very little like James Bond."
BingoBoingo snacks on Chicken gizzards, seasoned with anchovie, fried in lard. That includes at least a member of each major class of warm blooded critter endemic today, right.
asciilifeform expects that proles will eventually be issued with graphical terminals, just like everybody used to expect and then, for some reason, stopped
mircea_popescu: the difference between better and worse is not arbitrary. it's real. this then flows right into all the pots.
mircea_popescu: AS IF it takes more than marker to defeat sony
mircea_popescu: this is like reminding me that a cd press is expensive.
decimation: it looks cheap to google!
asciilifeform unhappily reminds mircea_popescu that small-scale Si foundry work makes U-235 look cheap.
decimation: for the moment, shenzhen has no use for any dreamer's lock-in
asciilifeform: as for the latter...
asciilifeform: nintendo for the lumpen, lisp machine for man ?
mircea_popescu: most of the mass will boil, but is worthless boiled or not.
mircea_popescu: what will happen here is that the "frog" will spontaneously separate.
asciilifeform: specifically, the mechanics of the frog-boiling process
decimation: all that remains is the problem of carefully herding the sheeple through the right gates
asciilifeform: the more interesting question is the 'how'
asciilifeform: decimation: approximately everyone who gives half a damn knows the 'why.'
decimation: asciilifeform: it's the State's dream - and the manufacturers want the lock-in
asciilifeform: 'even entire free operating systems... ...existed around the turn of the century. But not only were they illegal, like debuggers—you could not install one if you had one, without knowing your computer's root password. And neither the FBI nor Microsoft Support would tell you that.'
mircea_popescu: <BingoBoingo> The20YearIRCloud: I'm pale, but not Anglo << what, srsly ?!