asciilifeform: turned out, there ain't the turkey dollars, for even quite modest station.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: recall how concept of 'space station' came about ( 'somebody gotta change the vacuum tubes!' - '50s )
asciilifeform: the ease of monkeying with radio nav, is why east and west empires both sank $maxint into terrain-trackers in '80s ( what, if anything, this came to, i have nfi )
asciilifeform: louder needs... pebble reactor ? costly. and you get moar multipath.
asciilifeform: ( iirc a few 100w or so at the emitter )
asciilifeform: in the case of nav sats, he dun have to silence -- the signal is already quite weak
asciilifeform: by some accounts this is how cia pulled the korean air whatever# into sov airspace ( albeit with conventional, vs sat., navigatronics )
asciilifeform: you only need a very small delta for a gigantic offset
asciilifeform: it'll change 0 in practice, enemy can still quite easily 'pull' your, e.g., bomber, in some direction off course by amplifying your own genuine signal
asciilifeform: heavier and still trivially fucked in ~exactly same way
asciilifeform: it doesn't help if enemy ~helps~ you pick up a (genuine) signal at higher strength than naturally ought to be seen
asciilifeform: usg's gps already works on this principle iirc
asciilifeform: which are the actual datum in question
asciilifeform: not clear how it could exist at all, even with arbitrary equipment -- how do you sign ~the relative signal strengths~
asciilifeform: this in fact happens naturally in city envir, and is called 'multipath', makes the receiver output ~randomola
asciilifeform: enemy can still fuck you by getting a genuine signal from your own sat, but one which your receiver ought not legitimately to be hearing ( or hearing in the given strength ) , conveying over a fiber, and retransmitting in your loc
asciilifeform: ( iirc we had the 'physically impossible to make cryptoauthenticable navigational or time signal, as others can receive and retransmit with delay' thread. )
asciilifeform: also, elementarily, don't transmit random crapola, transmit signals receive from actual sats, with random delay.
asciilifeform: usg navigational gear has directional antennae, largely dun care re ground-level jammers. jam from above.
asciilifeform: make sure each operates intermittently, likewise, vs 100% dutycycle
asciilifeform: 'secret/noforn course' << last i heard , every recruit into u.s. army gets auto-seekret. and that orc mercenaries were not inducted into 'socom' to begin with.
asciilifeform: ly fabricated event, and later verified as untrue via internal investigation. He then went behind his TAC’s back and, because he had a very good working relationship with his NG Group Commander, produced a memo directing his reclassification as an 18E. Despite all of these acts, he was not relieved, but was given a recycle into the 18E course. He would fail the SFPA and retest twice before being graduated.' << ahaha
asciilifeform: 'SPC Thomas was an 18B trainee. He was first caught attempting to bribe an instructor with beer, and then later had a panic attack during an AAR while in the 18B FTX. During his relief board counseling, he attempted to blackmail 18B cadre by telling them that if relieved and returned to his unit, he would have to annotate that he witnessed the instruction of secret/noforn course material to international students. This was a complete
asciilifeform: en were shot on our recommendation. Adolf Eichmann himself congratulated us.'' (vonnegut's 'mother night' naturally)
asciilifeform: reminds of : ''I was such a pure and terrifying Aryan that they even put me in a special detachment. Its mission was to find out how the Jews always knew what the S.S. was going to do next There was a leak somewhere, and we were out to stop it' He looked bitter and affronted, remembering it, even though he had been that leak. 'Was the detachment successful in its mission?' I said. 'I'm happy to say,' said Arpad, 'that fourteen S.S. m☟︎
asciilifeform: somebody give this d00d order of red star.
asciilifeform: he levied was proven inaccurate or untrue. But as a student, he was given complete top cover and left unimpeded to continue creating havoc, and was not held accountable for the numerous integrity violations he committed. He graduated with his peers.' << win.
asciilifeform: 'o CPT Jimenez, currently in 7th Group, was the single source of several 4th Battalion investigations. He wrote anonymous emails, started IG complaints, or propagated rumors about virtually every single phase of the SFQC. His continual fabrications were verifiably false, and his numerous accusations resulted in several investigations that hampered operations for over a dozen cadre and battalion leadership. Literally every accusation
asciilifeform: and, importantly, works on resistant tb
asciilifeform: ( tb method earlier is the one where you pierce and deflate a lung, naturally 1 at a time, to nuke the aerobe microbe. as a kid asciilifeform dug up his grandfather’s set from the war, thought it was diving gear )
asciilifeform: ( also not sure how comparable is the psychology of krokodilism, which is a form of morphinism, to gabriel_laddeling. )☟︎
asciilifeform: the 'krokodilists' are superficially similar but different in that typically someone ~else~ , in meatwot, cooks the ersatz dope for them
asciilifeform: btw there is a famous 1990s ru b00k on subj of gabriel_laddel, http://btcbase.org/log/2014-02-27#536165 . ( summary : at one time ephedrine was sold openly, in 1980s su , for asthmatics. and student culture of methism developed, folx would buy the feedstock, do the reaction in glass taken home from school/work )☝︎
asciilifeform: woah d00d actually did as he was told, for 1ce.
asciilifeform: eventually you will take the pill and nothing useful will happen.
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: understand also that yer overclocking yer meat, and it will have eventually to be paid for.
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: i recommend to take a break and come back when you have theorem, or at least something new. and use some of your artificial stamina to make a blog, and write.
asciilifeform: trinque has a point, a byte in the l0gz is not cheap !
asciilifeform: trinque: i'll admit that i dun really buy the 'pushing' angle. if anything it's the mcdonaldizers and walmartizers, star topology creators, who create the demand for opiums
asciilifeform: i thought jail was required 'university' for dope people, like actual university used to be for maths
asciilifeform: for some reason i thought laevo-isomer has 0 effect on nervous system -- e.g. laevo-meth is sold in every pharmacy in usa, as a nasal decongestant
asciilifeform: ( it was tried repeatedly as... antidepressant, in su )
asciilifeform: at one time su also, but didn't really catch on
