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asciilifeform: (yes - you can fuck with the os of an hdd. i hope this is a 'revelation' to no one.)
asciilifeform: example of how to get 'shell' on a 'seagate' disk: https://sites.google.com/site/seagatefix/Home
mircea_popescu: pankkake Mats_cd03 i was on the ssds suck technologically bandwagon for many years. the past few however it's pretty much groundless.
pankkake: hard drives used to have that premium 5 year warranty, it's gone down to 3 years, while premium ssds now offer 10 years
asciilifeform: nope as in 'installed guaranteed sinusoidal power source', eliminated the possibility even in theory ?
pankkake: Mats_cd03: modern ssds give detailed SMART data, and have far less returns than hard drives. moreover, scrubs and rebuilds of RAIDs are much faster
mircea_popescu: then they can just get incinerated.
asciilifeform: one could even set up an array of these, in sealed box, for a given type of drive
mircea_popescu: currently i wanna find out what the holy shit is happening tho, because this ain't normal.
kakobrekla: harder to get blind with a blender.
asciilifeform: other variant: you can get a 100mW diode laser for 100 usd or so. zap the dies right through the package.
mircea_popescu: so what, im going to ask for oceanview in my provision spec ?
kakobrekla: well how do you know its done then
kakobrekla: while taking your girls for a walk
mircea_popescu: well im not actually doing this at home.
kakobrekla: spread the ashes by the sea
kakobrekla: pour it down the drain
kakobrekla: tell me what you gonna get out of that phone
kakobrekla: the problem of that video is that its not full enough
mircea_popescu: higher end drives have good diags on the drive anyway.
mircea_popescu: Mats_cd03 well yes, for one thing they're in a 1+0 raid. for the other thing it';s not like i'm letting them reach the end of wear levelling
asciilifeform: the drive can even be sold after this, or used in 'civilian' application.
asciilifeform: other, 'gentle' idea, dissolve 'windows' into the eeprom with nitric acid. replace cover. when time to decommission, use a UV lamp.
Mats_cd03: mircea_popescu: owing to what is basically two layers of raid?
assbot: "Will It Blend" Series Tests Patriot Flash Drive for Durability - YouTube
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: go blend a thumb drive, see what you get.
kakobrekla: blend them.
mircea_popescu: Mats_cd03 the only problem with ssds is that they're more difficult to properly decomission
Mats_cd03: wear leveling TRIM silent and catastrophic failure modes etc
mircea_popescu: jurov: wow is this second longest mpex downtime ever? yea.
Mats_cd03: with the added cost you get faster io. i bet mpex isn't io bound
chetty: <jurov> yeah mpex seems to eat disk drives
jurov: wow is this second longest mpex downtime ever?
benkay: <mircea_popescu> TheNewDeal what's an asshole in the dark. // huh i coulda sworn you were talking about the differences just recently
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] [PAID] 1.75509789 BTC to 11`739 shares, 14951 satoshi per share
assbot: Container ship sails straight to shore - Hong Kong April 6, 2014 - YouTube
mircea_popescu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLHP9h8zYD0 << anyway this one is fresh and was lulzy
mircea_popescu: fucking dangerous these things, because people are tards and don't properly balance them
assbot: Copay (beta), An Open Source Multisig Wallet | The BitPay Blog
assbot: Forklift truck Crash with container on it - YouTube
mircea_popescu: fluffypony https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2yWIHCase0 this ore like it
nubbins`: everybody freaked the fuck out, now there's a fracking moratorium
indiancandy1: i cant take this shit
mircea_popescu: how did that go ?
nubbins`: they tried fracking inside a UNESCO world heritage site here last year
nubbins`: then the price of oil rose
nubbins`: there was a time when western canada's tar sands were unproductive
mircea_popescu: los_pantalones they still holding on to that gulf moratorium ? or did that go away
mircea_popescu: so better tech may account for it.
mircea_popescu: yeah i was gonna say, this is shale
los_pantalones: now they are fracking
los_pantalones: they used to vertical drill
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves nah it's this supposedly major deposit in dakota, upgraded from 3bn barrels to 7bn,
ThickAsThieves: we looked at energy and decided we need to be smart about energy
ThickAsThieves: thats a lot of words to not say much
mircea_popescu: all this fucking insistence on how it's scientific and standardised and everything makes me suspicious already.
mircea_popescu: r the future.”
mircea_popescu: “The USGS undertook this assessment of the Bakken and Three Forks Formations as part of a nationwide project assessing U.S. petroleum basins using standardized methodology and protocol,” said Acting Director of the USGS Suzette Kimball. “Through this improved understanding of our energy resources, government, industry, and citizens are better able to understand our domestic energy mix and make wiser decisions fo
mircea_popescu: A key component of President Obama’s all-of-the-above energy strategy is the availability of sound science to guide informed decision-making regarding the safe and responsible development of America’s domestic energy resources.
mircea_popescu: d government decision makers at all levels make informed decisions about the responsible development of these resources.”
mircea_popescu: “These world-class formations contain even more energy resource potential than previously understood, which is important information as we continue to reduce our nation’s dependence on foreign sources of oil,” said Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell. “We must develop our domestic energy resources armed with the best available science, and this unbiased, objective information will help private, nonprofit an
indiancandy1: did you see the game got put on pornhub young brazilians get fucked by entire german soccer team
mircea_popescu: bish learn how to wot already, this is getting stale.
mircea_popescu: what's the odds on invasion ?
mircea_popescu: so should i buy some APCs just in case argentina loses and then it's argentina-brazil for 3rd place ?
ThickAsThieves: the goal is always better on the other side
mircea_popescu: tell that to brazil.
mike_c: isn't that what you're doing here?
mircea_popescu: let them think whatever they wish, they'll stil get killed if they step on the line.
mircea_popescu: pankkake why should it be upon me to educate other people's children ?
pankkake: what am I arguing for is, show them they accomplished nothing
mircea_popescu: pankkake you know, that account is old. i had a two year or so gap in there, some time they "upgraded" their website.
kakobrekla: <mircea_popescu> they made twitter an iota less relevant. < just like a drop of shit can ruin a bottle of wine, a drop of wine doesnt fix the bottle of shit, ya know.
pankkake: 0 is 0 - I'm not arguing that you should twit, twitter is an useless website for useless people etc.
pankkake: teaching them to be a mob?
mircea_popescu: they made twitter an iota less relevant.
pankkake: well, for now redditards think they accomplished something
mircea_popescu: the trial account has gone as far as it'll go.
mircea_popescu: twitter wants me tweeting, it gotta pay.
pankkake: they have not invented the unban-for-pay yet
pankkake: so you don't want to ask for your twitter account back?
mircea_popescu: but yes, bitcoin has nothing to do with this, this is the trade engine.
ThickAsThieves: dont forget to tweet that all our bitcoins are safe too
mircea_popescu: so as a mpex update : all 8 drives + the raid controller are going to be cut up. replacements are going in. mpex won't be back today, but i expect it to be back tomorrow. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves what's it take to be a market maker ?
ThickAsThieves: but it does say theyll list if there are 2 market makers
ThickAsThieves: and more votes than ripple!
mircea_popescu: "part of the appeal was that having no experience and looking for exposure, they didn't actually want to be paid"
chetty: ThickAsThieves, experience? whats this are you racist or smthn
ThickAsThieves: Altcoin currently has more votes than GroinCoin at hitbtc.com/vote
ThickAsThieves: god forbid they have experience
ThickAsThieves: "@BTCFoundation hires Thorsen French as outside lobbyists. Part of the appeal was they weren't invovled in past financial services battles"
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla show me your teats ?
kakobrekla: there is a log? oh my god mircea, i think i love you.
mircea_popescu: indiancandy1 here's a trick : this cannel is logged. you can see what people were talking about before you showed up. http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-07-2014#750961 ☝︎
nubbins`: they had to ask people to stop, claiming their public humiliation category was full ☟︎
nubbins`: "young brazilians get fucked by entire german football team" etc
mircea_popescu: all he needs is to constantly kick the 2-3 closest competitors off the block. a la mtgox-tradehill
davout: pankkake: thanks! so apparently it's due on friday
nubbins`: but apparently pornhub and similar sites have been flooded with uploads of the germany-brazil game