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Framedragger: if there is a will!..
Framedragger: btw, if anyone is considering doing the isp thing, one of the potential providers which offers colo is https://pinspb.ru/ (doesn't look serious i know, but after some research it turns out to have close ties to 2x4.ru, and that's not a bad sign.)
asciilifeform: 6274 was a good one
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform same argument could be made re mp's bitcoins, mp's slavegirls, mp's anythings yes ? how much would a girl properly trained sell for, seeing how the fucking shah of brunei can't, apparently, find one, and not for lack of trying ? subquestion : what THE FUCK is "respectable" supposed to mean in a world where apparently mp is the only one who has shit and everyone else will resist getting ~~~~~~ANY~~~~~ shit whatso
mircea_popescu: is it from the experience of being a businessman, or is it from the experience of being a cocksucker, begging this and that, like the schmuck i just negrated ?
asciilifeform: ( if mircea_popescu needed a 2009opteron for own use -- asciilifeform could, in principle, help. but if he needed a rack-house filled with them -- the gods themselves, could not help. )
asciilifeform: Framedragger: it was a backdoor when AMT first announced !
mircea_popescu: "First a little bit of background. SemiAccurate has known about this vulnerability for literally years now, it came up in research we were doing on hardware backdoors over five years ago. What we found was scary on a level that literally kept us up at night. For obvious reasons we couldn’t publish what we found out but we took every opportunity to beg anyone who could even tangentially influence the right people to do somet
mircea_popescu: and the idiots "begged intel to fix it for years" and never said a peep.
jurov: The short version is that every Intel platform with AMT, ISM, and SBT from Nehalem in 2008 to Kaby Lake in 2017 has a remotely exploitable security hole in the ME (Management Engine) not CPU firmware.
mircea_popescu: exactly like the braindead strippers who wouldn't pick up a bitcoin for free because hey, "professional" and whatnot.
mircea_popescu: "oh, there's a game that actually works, run by the only guy who actually has money or understands business in this cloud of idiots. tell you what -- we'll pretend to be offended at "fuckgoats" and stick with some utter derpitude run by a mentally ill runt. then a year or two years or whatever later we'll go ... "unfortunately" and act like no one could have fucking predicted".
mircea_popescu: "It is unfortunate that what was once a promising game with many contributors in the community has turned into a scam, but such as it is."
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-01#1650363 << dude. put the double carry mult-with-overflow-detection on your blog. with a proper and complete discussion. with log references. THEN, ~link it~ from your ~actual software~ via the comments. ☝︎
asciilifeform still chewing on a formal proof re subj
asciilifeform: 'On Wednesday, large chunks of network traffic belonging to MasterCard, Visa, and more than two dozen other financial services companies were briefly routed through a Russian government-controlled telecom under unexplained circumstances that renew lingering questions about the trust and reliability of some of the most sensitive Internet communications.' didjaknow.
asciilifeform: if loops were unrolled, you could have not merely a non-branchingonsecrets rsatron, but wholly nonbranching !
asciilifeform: ( as for code -- in the end it mist be entirely self-contained. and provably correct. it's a backbone for, e.g., 'tmsr rsa', 'p', eventually gossipd, etc. )
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform write a blog post ; then reference it from code commetns.
shinohai: lol I haven't browsed reddit in so long I didn't realize there is a whole new subreddit dedicated to mETH fraud: https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereumfraud/
diana_coman: asciilifeform, a search for that thing turned out what seems to be the MSc thesis behind it if that's any help
asciilifeform: when the left shifter ( x ) overflows for the first time, we set a bit, q, and clear another, r. r is set whenever right-shifter (y) overflows. now : if r is set again subsequently to q being set -- it means we overflow.
asciilifeform: 1100 , 0001 (a += 1100)
asciilifeform: 0110 , 0011 (a += 0110)
asciilifeform: you take multiplicands x, y, and accumulator a (initially 0) , and do : while y!=0: { if odd(y): { a += x } ; x <= x*2; y <= y/2 } .
asciilifeform: keep in mind that 'double the available register width' IS NOT A SOLUTION !!
asciilifeform: for my purposes i could entirely do with a constant-time-and-space mult algo that knows when to set the overflow flag.
asciilifeform: however i've also not turned up a rigorous proof that it is unsolvable. which is bothersome imho.
asciilifeform: apparently this is a bona fide unsolved problem.
asciilifeform: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/863038 << paywalled. anybody got a copy ?
asciilifeform: 'If l1 + l2 = N-1 let a' be equal to a with its leading 1 set to 0, let b' be equal to b with its leading 1 set to 0, let N' = N - 1 and apply the same algorithm.' << the problem with this is that it reduces to actually DOING THE MULT
asciilifeform: 'If l1 + l2 > N-1, the product of a and b can never overflow N.' is true. 'If l1 + l2 < N - 1, the product of a and b will always overflow N.' is also true.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'l1 + l2 < N - 1, the product of a and b will always overflow N.' << didja mean > rather than < ?
pete_dushenski: lol speaking of special interests going at each other, "She’s the Alternative for Germany’s new co-frontrunner despite a great divergence from the party’s typically conservative, xenophobic portrait. Alice Weidel, an openly gay economist, was nominated as the anti-immigrant, far-right party’s chief candidate on Sunday, set to run alongside AfD co-founder Alexander Gauland in September’s federal
asciilifeform: http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/4jCKm/?raw=true << a mult table, for convenience .
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: wouldja spare a few min and plox write down algo ?
mircea_popescu: to put it another way, two N-bit items muliplied so they yield a M bit result, where M < N, overflowed the buffer.
mircea_popescu: 1x * 1y will never result in a 0y no matter what happens!
mircea_popescu: 85 * 97 overflew if the result is not led by a 7.
mircea_popescu: conceivably he might also explain how to make a gentoo that works, and in the process of trying find out a few things for himself.
mircea_popescu: see, bukharin who idiotically will not go to china to hang out with a 30yo deng xiaoping also pays $9 a month "for his team" to github.
mircea_popescu: o check it out, github has a "pricing" tab i never noticed before. $9 per user per month ? really ?
mircea_popescu: in other lulz, le pen has a lengthy list of other-provinces-generals to name in various places once she wins. such roman empire.
asciilifeform: not even certain that this is a 'morality' tale re dope -- there are 'genius' who behave this way even sans dope.
mircea_popescu: which is a perverse sort of reminder : taking the usg seriously, IN ANY WAY, is what the usg lives off if.
mircea_popescu: at any rate -- it is worth pointing out that the original "charges" proferred by the sops terrorist organisation were dropped ; the current "sentence" stems from posturing around a youtube video the guy made discussing said "charges".
mircea_popescu: ”The U.S. government decided today that because I did such a good job investigating the cyber-industrial complex, they’re now going to send me to investigate the prison-industrial complex,” he said, thanking the government for providing “free food, clothes and housing as I seek to expose wrongdoing by the Bureau of Prisons officials and staff and otherwise report on news and culture in the world’s greatest prison sy
mircea_popescu: the pretense to be taken seriously is so fucking lulzy by now. i expect next is a shoe banging moment, yes ?
mircea_popescu: ps things were always thus; but there is a particular danger when a party has had too much power for too long: its members cannot compete to attack the enemy so they attack each other instead. If future commentators identify a "missing generation" of politicians who were in their twenties during the Thatcher years, this will have been the cause."
mircea_popescu: to briefly revisit kochanski, "I was subsequently elected to the post of Research Secretary of the Bow Group, which meant that I was the general editor of its published papers from 1989 to 1990. My abiding impression of the foothills of the Conservative Party at the time is of a world where people eyed their friends suspiciously and if they saw signs of possible talent then they knifed them before they became a danger. Perha
asciilifeform: was condemned for ... posting a link.
asciilifeform: '“The prosecutor said one thing that was accurate—that I don’t have respect for the laws in this country,” he told TIME. “We have a situation in which the only way we can survive as a free nation is if our laws are not enforced.”'
mircea_popescu: so this barrett brown, was he sent with... whatever, pick a 20yo slightly slack-jawed beauty to beijing, whence he returned to the us "because he can't live outside of the great satan" ?
mircea_popescu: it's an argument often found in the hands of the socialist / statist , that single men make mistakes which deliberating bodies might have avoided. this is a ridiculous argument : for every case of that there's ten thousand cases of mistakes them bodies make single men would have readily avoided.
mircea_popescu: a richard might have had, perhaps. he certainlt found the ~equivalent in the saxon-norman dispute. but no body of man ever can.
mircea_popescu: anyway, this is the fundamental limit of "democracy" in ~any sense~. no sort of consultative body, no matter what kind or type, would have ever fallen on the correct solution cca 1939, which was to say to hitler "hey, you seem like a strapping young chap, tell you what, each dog must have his day says our poet. would you like india ?"
mircea_popescu: nevertheless : a whole population of redskins disappeared over a coupla centuries because, day after day and year after year, each individually made their choice : would i rather work and think, or would i rather die ? and they chose to die, and they died, AND THEY ARE NOT MISSED.
asciilifeform: aha. who the hell knows what a grown-up german empire could've been like.
mircea_popescu: imagine a belgian congo the size of all india! virtually no indians left today, etc.
mircea_popescu: point being it'd have worked closer to a sort of nepal / taiwan / whatever than to a sort of north korea.
asciilifeform: however peace treaties between megaempires are a lul.
mircea_popescu: but then again, zee prussians always had a higher view of englishmen than of russians.
mircea_popescu: amusingly, england would have fared a lot better if it made a humble peace with germany cca 1939, than as it did making a gaudy, and empty, alliance with the only true enemy of humanity, and human liberty.
mircea_popescu: that's the only practical point in all of this. yes england was a piece of shit slated for the garbage heap anyway, sure. but there can not be such a thing as an ally of the us.
mircea_popescu: the right to shrug my shoulders and think about something else. What he is saying, thousands and hundreds of thousands are saying and thinking – not throughout Great Britain, perhaps, but in the areas that are already undergoing the total transformation to which there is no parallel in a thousand years of English history." et al.
mircea_popescu: "I can already hear the chorus of execration. How dare I say such a horrible thing? How dare I stir up trouble and inflame feelings by repeating such a conversation? The answer is that I do not have the right not to do so. Here is a decent, ordinary fellow-Englishman, who in broad daylight in my own town says to me, his Member of Parliament, that this country will not be worth living in for his children. I simply do not have
mircea_popescu: but since he mentions enoch powell : it can't be underscored enough that "what will happen when much brain power and energy are applied to a faulty premise". compare and contrast the life and times of http://trilema.com/2010/general-sir-charles-james-napier-gcb/ working for the empire with the output and stature of powell.
asciilifeform: 'If I employ a gardener, I have to earn £3 for every £1 he can actually spend, because everything is taxed twice, first as my income, then as his.' << not only still true in today's reich, but today it'd be 10 : 1 . ☟︎
asciilifeform: sorta why when i turn up a live dodo, i post it here.
mircea_popescu: this, because she didn't keep a blog, and she didn't because, of course, http://btcbase.org/log/2017-04-29#1649870 ☝︎
mircea_popescu: the woman he mentions (corinne camilleri-ferrante) died a few years back. the guardian has an empty, google spam page on her name.
asciilifeform: ' "Poverty" as defined now (for instance, by the Child Poverty Action Group) would have been called "riches" in many earlier ages. In a similar vein, the child sex abuse industry ensures an ever growing problem and ever growing attention by redefining as sexual abuse things (such as being groped in crowds) that most people would regard as a regrettable but not catastrophic part of childhood, so that its statements about real abuse are
mircea_popescu: there's a difference across the atlantic, conservative/republican aren't ~same, so on.
mircea_popescu: "In its early years the Group produced a few carefully researched papers, which the Conservative Party really had to take notice of because no-one else in the Party gave the impression of doing any thinking at all." << he's talking of the republican party in the 80s, ie, that supposed golden age of reaganism. and he's not right, either.
mircea_popescu: but since we're doing etimologies or what was it, apparently uppity tortilla (who was living independently for incomprehensible reasons) set his apartment on fire, and other than being kicked out is being prosecuted by a bunch of people who claim he owes them money (again).
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: yeah i guess it's just a specific case of a general meh-thing
mircea_popescu: really, bitfinex has a nonzero volume ? truly, btcchina deals in bitcoin now ? will miracles never cease ?
mircea_popescu: reading those "volume" figures is such a lulz in and of itself.
mircea_popescu: Framedragger basically what you're saying is that you disapprove of fiat pseudolaw being applied, when obviously the republic is the only sovereign. which, yes, is not a controversial point.
BingoBoingo: Not really. Not between the pantsuit judges and the realization that Congress is a bunch of welfare queens.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo all in all the first hundred aren't as much of a lulz shower as the first dozen seemed to imply huh.
deedbot: http://qntra.net/2017/04/first-one-hundred-days-of-the-eight-year-trumpreich-a-recap/ << Qntra - First One Hundred Days Of The Eight Year Trumpreich: A Recap
mircea_popescu: mats "calea" is a domestic item.
BingoBoingo: Oh, they have a newspaper http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/2245394-an-overview-of-president-trumps-first-100-days-in-office-2/
Framedragger not a fan
BingoBoingo: Anyways, Koran sells a death cult too
BingoBoingo: It's a sufficiently lulzy religion that I must research deeper.
BingoBoingo: So maybe a touch of Jehova's Witness in their theologisty
pete_dushenski to go dress us like a penguin and vibrate his vocal chords like a good little church boy. laters!
pete_dushenski: lobbes: done. thx for making it easy! confirm that all's as intended when you have a chance.
mircea_popescu: pantsuit party is a very volatile hodge podge of single issue fascists ("gender rights", "Ecologists", radical black activists, some latino weirdos etc) and multi-issue socialists that used to masquerade as "market oriented liberal capitalists" (the dudes who keep pushing the "science" narrative etc) and are now about as confused wrt their identity as dude trying to wear a suit on wall street by day and suck cock on knees in
mircea_popescu: the notion that it'll still exist by 2020 is a little dubious.
shinohai: http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/04/28/10/3FAFDA2200000578-0-image-a-63_1493373300468.jpg <<< New way to `rack up` support for Putin?
mircea_popescu: it's not even the drop per se. it's very rocky, it'll crack your skull wide open in a 20 foot fall.
mircea_popescu: a yeah.
mircea_popescu: (for the innocent : retezat is a hard mountain, dozen-ish groups are about the largest that can be sanely managed. to ensure things such as you know, NOT STARTING AVALANCHES)
mircea_popescu: you ever seen a group that large who wasn't 105% douchebag by mass ?
mircea_popescu: diana_coman in principle, sure. so far as the matter stands, one man trained a bunch of record holders and the other man went around retezat in large groups. how the fuck even dare he take 51 persons over there ?
mircea_popescu: diana_coman bullshit, yes. but this is a factual description of the world. you're gonna ignore it now ?
diana_coman: oh, they were competent STRICTLY at climbing a mountain; provided the mountain is in the lab; in the void