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thestringpuller: mircea
_popescu:"The IsStandard() rules have been almost completely removed for P2SH redemption scripts"
pete_dushenski: funkenstein
_: i imagine that contravex posts will either become shorter or slightly less frequent, but we shall see
pete_dushenski: funkenstein
_ speaking of nothing, are you still blogging much ? and what was the name of your site again ?
pete_dushenski: funkenstein
_: lol cheers. i'm sorta surprised i didn't need more help than i did
assbot: Logged on 13-08-2015 04:55:16; mircea
_popescu: <phf> i thought Thompson was mostly a polemicist, are there any articles of his where he successfully "blows a lid" off something? << no.
assbot: Logged on 13-08-2015 04:55:04; mircea
_popescu: asciilifeform linked cryptome article badly stitched together effort of random derp to get his name out there ?
BingoBoingo: pete
_dushenski: But take comfort. The "Chicago River" is a 21st century open sewer
BingoBoingo: pete
_dushenski: If any part of the "Chicago River" is in a frame most of use can smell it.
BingoBoingo: pete
_dushenski: Not really. Middle America will know
BingoBoingo: <mircea
_popescu> heh yeah, what's "30 rock" gross ? << SNL, but "retired"
BingoBoingo: <mircea
_popescu> sadly stitches are not a unit of account, pete
_dushenski << Seriosly NBC is too poor to film police dramas in NYC. Hence "Chicago PD"
pete_dushenski: mircea
_popescu: btw, what's the going rate for online ads these days ? sounds like cpm is dead, but do you know 'average' cpc off-hand ?
pete_dushenski: mircea
_popescu: it probably grosses a couple million a year ? leaving a net of a few hundred k, i'd wager
mircea_popescu: sadly stitches are not a unit of account, pete
_dushenski
pete_dushenski: mircea
_popescu: what else has nbc bought in the last 5 years ?
hanbot: <mircea
_popescu> what did jobs "invent" again ? << elective lobotomies with moar rounded corners
pete_dushenski: ben
_vulpes: did you have any 'absolute path' issues when setting up coracle ? i still haven't overcome this issue with my rotor attempts
BingoBoingo: <mircea
_popescu> <phf> it's not like you end up giving out trash, i lose books that i then have to buy again << seriously, giving women books is fucktarded. either order her to buy and read it, or forget it. << Been a decade and months since my mistake. Recognized when I wanted to see them again.
wilbns: mircea
_popescu: haha, yes, exactly, that was my favorite candy as a kid which is why i liked the cartoon
mircea_popescu: pete
_dushenski it's a great show, starting maybe about 5-6-7 or so but be prepared to support the kid by not being a hypocrite cop-out sorta parent. which always sounds a lot easier than it turns out to be
pete_dushenski: mircea
_popescu: i'm taking notes here on cartoonz for kidz, so keep 'em comin.
☟︎ BingoBoingo: mircea
_popescu: Studying the ways of the fiat job interview. And sleeping.
phf: mircea
_popescu: that would be a very ungenerous way of looking at it
phf: Adlai: i'm trying to decide if i want to get working OP
_CHECKSIG first by blindly using someone else's code or ffi'ing to openssl; or write a first approximation of ECDSA myself. will probably offset me by a week
punkman: mircea
_popescu: why would it be
Adlai: ascii
_field: iiuc sfine, as long as you "declare the pennies on your eyes"
mircea_popescu: ascii
_field i think they give books more in line with "tehnologia navigatiei cu vele"
assbot: Logged on 12-08-2015 21:09:46; mircea
_popescu: <mats> wasn't telling a lie, merely made a mistake <<< it's a very interesting point as to how do you establish this ?
ascii_field: internet connection is established. I don't know too much exactly what those do, but one appears to phone home to
http://download.lenovo.com/ideapad/wind ... 2
_oko.json which is a bit worrying with the combination of a "ForceUpdate" parameter shown and the lack of ssl, making it fairly likely that it's exploitable for remote code execution by anyone who can intercept your traffic(public wifi, etc).'
ascii_field: 'Before booting windows 7 or 8, the bios checks if C:\Windows\system32\autochk.exe is the Lenovo one or the original Microsoft one. If it is not the lenovo one, it moves it to C:\Windows\system32\0409\zz
_sec\autobin.exe, and then writes it's own autochk.exe. During boot, the Lenovo autochk.exe writes a LenovoUpdate.exe and a LenovoCheck.exe file to the system32 directory, and sets up a services to run one of them when an
ascii_field: mircea
_popescu: relies on an interpreter he wrote in c
mircea_popescu: ascii
_field incidentally, it's funny to consider the relations between "remote attestation" and hock or w/e the thing was called
mircea_popescu: <ascii
_field> boils down to the hardness of the fritz chip << the reason they don't call it that is because they are trying to avoid the literature documenting the costs of making it hard and the limitation its softness imposes.
assbot: ascii
_field and sirnarwhal are not registered in WoT.
mircea_popescu: ascii
_field it's still an interesting problem, even if not necessarily of practical consequence.
assbot: Logged on 10-02-2015 03:25:08; mircea
_popescu: this is like asking wyatt earp "how do you distinguish between the f brothers and stray dog"
assbot: Logged on 12-08-2015 19:30:01; ascii
_field: which there is no mention of in the paper.
assbot: Logged on 06-03-2015 00:52:21; mircea
_popescu: here's the long and the short of this story : you got two whores, just like in the chemistry and agriculture story. one's whomint, the other's slutmint. you gotta fuck either one or the other. they both have very specific, life altering constraints.
punkman: ascii
_field, someone has to pick the low hanging fruit, no?
punkman: ascii
_field: but they do run windows
mats: ascii
_field: he asserts that 'massr86' uses a VMM, which would be detected
assbot: Logged on 12-08-2015 17:54:13; mircea
_popescu: one of the best places for stego i can think of.
mircea_popescu: ascii
_field you don't imagine the stuff won't be hacked, right ?
mircea_popescu: ascii
_field looky, there's some value into getting better control of the "owners" of zombie computers.
ascii_field: mircea
_popescu: the 'homomorphic' shit is strictly for 'secure against owner'
assbot: Logged on 12-08-2015 15:46:48; mircea
_popescu: "But a boxing audience is always disgusting, and the behaviour of the women, in particular, is such that the army, I believe, does not allow them to attend its contests." lmao orlov and his middle class sentimentalities.
assbot: Logged on 12-08-2015 15:36:52; mircea
_popescu: "A Crypto Trick That Makes Software Nearly Impossible to Reverse"
mircea_popescu: current computer science favours the speed of light over other speeds "much more important to "us"". it is a serious fucking problem for usg/nsa/alphabetsoup that there still exist people who even vaguely understand what this shit even is, because even one in a million that can make actual decisions based on actual facts when that asshole asciilifeform publishes things about pgp keys or that asshole mircea
_popescu thre
phf: mircea
_popescu: oh that's the idea about him, i guess that makes sense
assbot: Logged on 16-07-2014 23:42:34; mircea
_popescu: if teh muricans really just wanted "something that shoots and a bus ticker there", i'd have been really worried about the afghanistani.
williamdunne: mircea
_popescu: I, mr government official, confirm that mrs notary, did in fact agree that the documents were correct that he brought on the day. She said so and she signed it.
assbot: Logged on 11-08-2015 21:47:42; mircea
_popescu: how exactly did some us black guy get his "we" to include i presume egyptians, which weren't black while he wasn't in africa, is anyone's guess.
mod6: <+asciilifeform> ben
_vulpes ? mod6 ? any of you went home with mosquito bite ? << heheh. i might have gotten a bite or two. i paid them back ~10x iirc.
pete_dushenski: mircea
_popescu: iirc you pointed the finger at kako and he pointed it back at you. in any event, i'd like to see it back up. never know when said pressing need might arise.
mircea_popescu: pete
_dushenski i dun recall what the problem was with it, i think it mostly fell through the cracks for lack of pressing need. the server's up at any rate.
pete_dushenski: mircea
_popescu: any chance we might see log1 again in the near future ?