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mod6: yeah i think my /27 used to be like ~$10/mo
asciilifeform: $ ls -l /usr/portage/distfiles/dieharder-3.31.1.tgz
mircea_popescu: "In order to extend the attack range, we added a 50dB gain stage using a pair of inexpensive low-noise amplifiers (Mini-Circuits ZFL-500LN+ and ZFL-1000LN+ in series, 175$ total). We also added a low-pass filter before the amplifiers. With this enhanced setup, the attack can be mounted from 50 cm away. Using better antennas, amplifiers and digitizers, the range can be extended even further."
decimation: but be ready to spend $$$ for ammo
decimation: but this will be the one corner case that will justify $mil in usg 'requirements'
assbot: Logged on 19-06-2015 23:08:30; kakobrekla: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=19-06-2015#1168375 < actually sennheiser is meh. here i have a 20$ headphones that beat the shit out of 200 and 350$ sennheisers.
kakobrekla: anyway if anyone is out for headies, 20$ 'superlux 681' will blow away senn hd650 like nothing.
kakobrekla: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=19-06-2015#1168375 < actually sennheiser is meh. here i have a 20$ headphones that beat the shit out of 200 and 350$ sennheisers. ☝︎☟︎
ascii_field: landing a $35,000/year post-doc job?'
decimation: it might be confusing, but he points out that a 747 costs about $25k per hour for everything
decimation: actually $7k per seat is about right for business/first class
decimation: actual round trip ticket to london is like $1k
decimation: greenspun: "(compare to about $25,000 per flight hour to charter (source)). If American Airlines spent this much during the 7-hour flight from London to Boston it would cost $1.44 million for the trip in operating cost (i.e., not including the capital cost of the aircraft) or about $3500 per passenger (i.e., a round-trip coach ticket couldn?t be sold for less than about $7000 plus taxes and fees)."
decimation: http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/06/10/obama-cracks-down-on-airplane-emissions-buys-massive-new-air-force-one/ < Taxpayers currently spend $206,337 for every flight hour aboard Air Force One.
decimation: apple buys you for $3 bil
decimation: add a few ounces of metal to the cheapass plastic; charge $200
decimation: plus, once you are paying $bil to corba and java developers, they are not gonna listen to some rf engineer who knows about radios
decimation: it's almost dead predictable every time a new tech cycle comes around: usg spends $bil on 'new tech that will save lots of money', fails any gains, actual people working in the field are displaced by carpetbaggers
ascii_field: http://i.ebayimg.com/t/Halbes-Apple-MacBook-Pro-/00/s/OTAwWDEyMDA=/z/I4gAAOSwsLtVevMs/$_57.JPG << ultra-portable laptop for ben_vulpes ?
ascii_field: http://i.ebayimg.com/t/Halber-Motorradhelm-/00/s/MTAyNFg3Njg=/z/~oIAAOSwl8NVbcHr/$_57.JPG << win
assbot: How to blow $6 billion on a tech project | Ars Technica ... ( http://bit.ly/1GnJNGK )
decimation: some dumbfucks make shit plastic and get $3bil
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assbot: Logged on 18-06-2015 03:47:32; decimation: apparently you can craft your own suppressor if you pay USG $200
decimation: apparently you can craft your own suppressor if you pay USG $200 ☟︎
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
ascii_field: 'Following a drawn-out and contentious bidding war, Colt lost its contract to provide the Pentagon with M4 rifles in 2013. The $77 million contract went instead to a Belgian company, F.N. Herstal.'
ascii_field: it would cost me ~$80 to get home in a cab right now.
ascii_field: even less than $1
ascii_field: he is living on $1 of rice + $xxxx of other-things-which-aren't-available-to-me-if-i-get-parachuted-into-calcutta
ascii_field: but you ~also~ don't say 'beggar is living on $1/day'
punkman: "The day after the breach was made public, OPM finalized a more than $20 million deal with Winvale Group to start notifying individuals "within 48 hours of award.""
punkman: "Rather than immediately encrypt data, OPM plans to reduce the number of computer users with access to systems and require multistep login verifications, she said. OPM's fiscal 2016 request for congressional funding asks for an additional $21 million"
ascii_field: (and only a paid-up, to the tune of 100K+ usd, or well-cracked, xilinx toolchain, will even talk to the $200-300 ones)
ascii_field: funkenstein_: they -also- charge $maxint for the hardware
mats: folks abusing promotional $30 ride credit
midnightmagic: turbomolecular pumps on ebay seem to range from $1,000 to $3,500. I have no idea which ones would be suitable for the vacuum chamber in a mother m-rap
asciilifeform: if you have other sources, with experiments (done on something other than $maxint machinery, surplus or not) plz link...
asciilifeform: jurov: i can 'decide' all i want' 'spirit is willing but flesh is weak' in this case. unless you'd like to contribute $100B for a fab and an army
copypaste: (That doesn't cover close to our bandwidth bills, we served 200TB last month, around $2K...)
copypaste: I converted what I was given by you and paid $250 to them already.
cazalla: yellow man, white pussy, big $$$
asciilifeform: ^ ?!#!@??@?$%%!!!!!
cazalla: if the price keeps going up so fast i'm gonna get fucked on that above $280 bet :\ pls wait 4 days kgo
cazalla: mircea_popescu, $14.5 USD / 1K impressions for top 728x90 and 300x250 $9 / 1K impressions on the lower end
ascii_field: other thing is, only 'positive' items are even theoretically possible to authenticate. that is, if you find a leak purporting to be from the directorate-of-cracking-rsa, stating that 'sixteen quintillion bezzlars and still no result,' this could be disinfo. whereas 'here's how to factor $maxint on a pocket calculator' is testable.
assbot: Logged on 16-06-2015 02:24:53; ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> that sounds pretty jewish << he's probably the most jewish jew in here - endlessly pessimistic about everything, everything costs $maxint, gurls are unreadable, and practically a talmudic scholar to boot
pete_dushenski: at this rate, $3.4 mn for space porn will be 10 btc by tuesday.
pete_dushenski: porn in space looking to raise... $3.4 mn
assbot: Logged on 16-06-2015 02:24:53; ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> that sounds pretty jewish << he's probably the most jewish jew in here - endlessly pessimistic about everything, everything costs $maxint, gurls are unreadable, and practically a talmudic scholar to boot
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> that sounds pretty jewish << he's probably the most jewish jew in here - endlessly pessimistic about everything, everything costs $maxint, gurls are unreadable, and practically a talmudic scholar to boot ☟︎☟︎
menahem: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=15-06-2015#1164421 << same happened to me in Chicago. Person balled out at Payless with like $80. ☝︎
asciilifeform: (on account of multi-$ prices)
asciilifeform: the concept of 'if random d00d pwned $victim, so has everyone' is only approximately true.
asciilifeform: a monkey working at $vendor fires string, gets coin. for virtually no effort of his own.
asciilifeform: i was speaking specifically of an automated system (riding on wot, naturally, for the 'why should i potentially waste valuable $secret' bit)
asciilifeform: aha, can't buy $magic.
asciilifeform: it is trickier than first appears, because 'i want the s00p3r-s33kr1t floor plan for $fpga' is turing-complete (that is, whether the trade was an honest one is not resolvable by machine)
cazalla: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=13-06-2015#1163496 <<< it's still way off its highs of $8-9 when it claimed it could now do whatever ethereum is planning to do ☝︎
mod6: $conference
mod6: i once had an 1983 pontiac perrisan <sp> station wagon. it had 300`000 miles on it. got it for $750. it always made me laugh because when i shut it off, it would keep knocking for like ~20 seconds. then backfire super loud.
mod6: i just can't figure it out why someone would want to pay $300/mo for 6-7 years on a car loan for something "new" or "reasonable"
trinque: I once sold a car for $125, was probably in way worse shape than yours
mod6: the car we saw in .ar with the clubs, that's probably a $3 car. lol
mod6: i actually got a decent deal on it for $100, it would probably be $1000 if i bought it from a used car lot or something. bought it from a friend.
mod6: but the idea here is that i put no $ into it, and when the wheels fall off, i'll pitch the keys on the seat and go find another.
mod6: i have a $100 car that the drivers side window doesn't roll down, and the passenger side doesn't roll up. no rear view mirror (it fell off) and the side mirror is taped on with Ninja Turtle ductape.
mircea_popescu: $ like totally what's even here ?
mircea_popescu: $ sudo sig-cache-more-plox kernel
decimation: even good farmland in iowa goes for $5k an acre
decimation: why some wasteland in australia is worth $100k...
assbot: Logged on 13-06-2015 02:50:34; decimation: where does all this money come from? is it because people bid up AU$ because of the raw materials?
decimation: does everyone get paid $200k?
decimation: where does all this money come from? is it because people bid up AU$ because of the raw materials? ☟︎
asciilifeform: sometimes via multi-$mil elaborate s4mz0r1ngs
trinque: $127 or $150 for 4gb ram
decimation: and 'only' $11k
ascii_field: not for $maxint.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: thing is, we could get the $20k one here at $firm. but it will RUN XP
nubbins`: there's like $150 worth of concept sketches of you riding a horse and squinting at the sun around here somewhere
mod6: <+nubbins`> you can't get a bash prompt? << for instance on my POS box that I bought for $129.00 an x86_64 core2duo, I can't even install the os. All i can do is boot the livecd, do the chroot stuff, and then end up at the grub> prompt upon reboot. when it comes to my instance in AWS, i've had better luck, but doing stuff for me is so time consuming. in this case, i need to get gcc recompiled with patches to see if we can get past this error we
pete_dushenski: that's an extreme example, but even 'non-collectors' c3 vettes are still $15-20k here
BingoBoingo: But... That might cost more than the car's $6000 unless you wait for one to miracle onto criagslist
kakobrekla: intval($result) gets you that prolly
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pete_dushenski: up from $3k 5 years ago
pete_dushenski: in other news, inflation strikes mozilla : "Mozilla has more than doubled the cash rewards under its dusty bug bounty to beyond $10,000."
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asciilifeform: (a $150 box is not a substitute)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ted turner invested $maxint in bison farms
nubbins`: i bet those things cost like $500ea
hanbot: <asciilifeform> http://thewhet.net/2015/browder-the-bitcoinless << do you recall tlp's 'if you're reading it, it's for you' maxim? consider, why is this fella on front page of nyt? vs the $maxint other folks held without trial << i do remember, yeah. results of recommended consideration are grotesque for sure. all the more reason to hang out in here.
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-06-2015#1159520 << l0l mircea_popescu, last i checked i was paying rent with usd, 100% of which comes from the fine fella i work for at $dayjob. ☝︎
ascii_field: because per -hour of Actual Work- they demand, you get $10,000.
ascii_field: $1 or so from hong kong
ascii_field: so there we go. the remaining ones are our $rothchilds
ascii_field: gotta understand, the dod mega-projects have lifespans of decades and contracted for $maxint in advance
mircea_popescu: are they consulting for $$$ or just taking living wage as zeks ?
decimation: one can hardly raise a family in the wash dc area for $80k