asciilifeform: asciilifeform finds it more than a little puzzling how little of past 30y of cheap cpu, has been put to use in advancing illicit radio -- where is the dc-to-daylight cryptospreadspectrum pirate ? why idjits still on fixed frequencies, like it were 1930s today ?☟︎
asciilifeform: and unless you have artillery salvo with which to answer these questions, adventure will be short.
asciilifeform: but if you set up a tower and start pumping 100kW into it, just about anywhere on planet, folx will show up to ask questions
asciilifeform: there was a fly in my house earlier and also didn't get squashed.
asciilifeform: continuously transmitting loud point source == target.
asciilifeform: wholly different item, and trivially, cheaply quashed with 1930s tech
asciilifeform: not to mention that it doesn't particularly need to transmit more than a few sec/day.
asciilifeform: either that, or make use of past 100 yrs of tactic re anti-triangulation : e.g. a) radio doesn't live next to your earthly carcass, controlled remotely b) radio is not 1 emitter, but synchronized chorus ( see saddam's jammer thread) c) radio dun look like a radio, but like 'defective' appliance plausibly d ) use imagination
asciilifeform: trinque: does 0 good re subj. you're a pirate, yarrrr, right off the bat, because crypto
asciilifeform: it 'winds' for as long as 20-30sec, before it can be 'sprung'; and during this interval, theoretically a man can hold it closed and prevent the 'spring' from winding, with one hand. but asciilifeform was not permitted into the crocodilarium to verify this truism.
asciilifeform: essentially a bear trap made of flesh and bone
asciilifeform: i find it interesting how the apparatus of the crocodilians is mechanically put together
asciilifeform: wasn't in genuine cocastan tho : we had a travelling exhibit, with plexiglass trailers etc, fiddybux a ticket.
asciilifeform: i did ! but will nitpick, i indeed have stared in the mouth of a living croc
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: it's pretty lulzy. picture gossipd but 0 even attempt at crypto, and you nearly have it.
asciilifeform: for some reason the city hall locked most of the working public latrines. though i found that they had unlocked the ones in the marktplatz.☟︎
asciilifeform: but it is inoffensive, not comparable to piss in lifts or trains imho.
asciilifeform: iirc one of the folx in c2 even made use of one of these.
asciilifeform: now on the outskirts of the old town there is an abandoned communist-era latrine, where the fixtures have been removed, but folx still come and piss on the floor.
asciilifeform: and it was cleanly into the river, not on the stone.
asciilifeform: mod6: i did see a d00d pissing over one of them habsburg bridges. but he was no moar hobo than i.
asciilifeform: but i did enjoy the absense of 'people with no indoor voice', hollering, barfing, smashing public fixtures, etc
asciilifeform: i dun even have anything against proper bums.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i was saving this for the travelogue, but will give 1 interesting example: the flagpoles in timis, have no locks on the winch.
