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benkay: <BingoBoingo> Fuck... If Farc catches me... I might get an actual IT job. // worse things could happen
mircea_popescu: so grep the log for unique ips
asciilifeform: 'But maybe "computer" is the wrong word. It's actually an iron box with a padlock. Also known as a computer whose security model is simple enough to understand and whose operating system is known completely enough to trust.'
jborkl: Well I guess that is what I am trying to figure out
assbot: Awstats and stuff pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: sit down for this one. they don't use pgp either...
BingoBoingo: Wait, drug trafickers use voice on VHF? not Morse plus One time pad?
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: speaking of radio triangulation, cryptome is back - with: http://cryptome.org/2014/06/dea-nsa-sandkey.pdf
jborkl: So I am guessing I am getting ddos ? My CDN also says it served 200mb today. I will have to use tcpdump tomorrow
BingoBoingo: rules.txt has to be one of my top 5 favorite files of all time
BingoBoingo: Nothing to be ashamed of. The thing is back then, that was the fun.
asciilifeform ashamed, probably spent more time patching games than playing
BingoBoingo: Another thing I loved about the early civ games was "customizing" the sprites and rules.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: It was in game, but... beyond my ability to load... Even Windows software back then was modular enough the rest of the game worked.
asciilifeform: mine was an ascii turd that came with the warez.
mircea_popescu: anyway, 70k gold +1k per turn. sexy!
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Never had access to the civilopedia... Civ II was the only Civ at walmart and I was running a 486 at the time
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mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2011/revelatie-nocturna/ < that one
mircea_popescu: me single town owning world.
assbot: Sid Meier’s Civilisation (3) pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo this may then be relevant to your interests :
BingoBoingo: Well, I eventually started playing Civ with the aim of maintaining an Iberian City state and nothing else...
asciilifeform: gotta pity the kid who learns history from 'civilopaedia'
BingoBoingo: Ghandi was just a Brown Edward Teller
BingoBoingo: Unless facing Ghandi when it becomes the nuclear age.
gribble: George Orwell: You and the Atomic Bomb: <http://orwell.ru/library/articles/ABomb/english/e_abomb>; Orwell's 5 greatest essays: No. 4, "You and the Atomic Bomb" - Los ...: <http://articles.latimes.com/2013/nov/05/business/la-fi-mh-orwells-atomic-20131104>; Fifty Orwell Essays - Project Gutenberg Australia: <http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300011h.html>
asciilifeform: ;;google you and the atomic bomb
mircea_popescu: but anyway, the chinese extremely heavy investment in cheap, easy to deploy, rocket defenses and the way research has been going, it's quite clear we're entering another pikeman phase.
BingoBoingo: And the US is abandoning it's premier attack aircraft...
mircea_popescu: also for this reason
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform meanwhile opponent is researching how to fuck with the [measured] gravity
asciilifeform: for this reason.
asciilifeform: modern rocket men have taken an interest in terrain tracking, gravimetric maps, etc. - things the opponent can't jam
mircea_popescu: it certainly isn't nowhere near today.
BingoBoingo: Most under rated turn of the century film http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0186566/
mircea_popescu: and i'll be it'll never be reached again in the lifetime of that republic.
mircea_popescu: mike_c actually the 2nd gulf war was probably the pinacle of us military tech advantage
asciilifeform: mike_c: there are practical limits for electrical supply in orbit. (russia launched reactors, pissing on treaties, for this reason)
mike_c: but i think it is now
mike_c: i think it wasn't that lopsided in operation saddam
BingoBoingo: mike_c: GPS sats only get so strong. Most "GPS" relies on indigenous signals to achieve a finer resolution
mircea_popescu: mike_c sort-of. obviously it's an endless battle etc. but it's not nearly as lopsided as you seem to think.
mike_c: asciilifeform: i am thinking. but i believe this problem has been worked on over the years. like with stronger gps sats, no?
mircea_popescu: jborkl welcome to the internet.
jborkl: Not sure if it is traffic or ?
jborkl: My server has been at 70k kbps for the last 24 hours
asciilifeform: gps would be worth very little if you could only use the signal that is 'up'
BingoBoingo: Subtly move the center of the complex from the 1337 command center to the squash court
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> signal from the genuine gps sat is... below thermal noise. << exactly, and directionality is w-expensive.
asciilifeform: (how do we pick it up? open a textbook, pll...)
asciilifeform: signal from the genuine gps sat is... below thermal noise.
mircea_popescu: plenty of times the sattelites will be under your horizon
mircea_popescu: mike_c not only the ionosphere reflects, but
mircea_popescu: mike_c you can't always identify directionality like that
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: re: tale: take with requisite grain of whatever salt, it was told by a russian
mike_c: well, there is the other easy way to hose gps jammers.
mircea_popescu: mike_c just the seeking part.
mike_c: what, it plunks in the middle?
mircea_popescu: mike_c if properly geometrically spaced the harm misses
BingoBoingo: mike_c: I'm guessing you never got the Radio merit badge in the Boyu Scouts?
asciilifeform: mike_c: consider the question of how one finds the strongest source.
mike_c: what does ring pattern have to do with it? HARM busts up jammers regardless I thought
mircea_popescu: the crucial bit of spec, rendered whole thing useless.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> a tale was once told to me by one fellow 'in the know': russia sold gps jammers (serious ones, not the chinese pocket gizmos off ebay) to iraq, shortly prior to '03 american invasion. but iraq didn't pay the full invoice. so, the vendor neglected to remind the buyer that they must be arranged in a ring pattern and operated in unison << i heard the same story passed off as successful intel mission, stole
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: there can be countermeasure against 1,2,3... but not five. see also http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=08-02-2014&bots=true#488932
BingoBoingo: Unless the neighbors are British... They probably have countermeasures for that by now...
mircea_popescu: <benkay> <mircea_popescu> benkay 300 dollar shirt, no underwear works better. // by the time i feel okay about buying 300 dollar shirts, i hopefully can delegate the harrasment of neighbors. << and peeing ?
BingoBoingo: Ah, the if Oracle was a Defense Contractor strategy............ =====
asciilifeform: so they all got rocketed.
asciilifeform: a tale was once told to me by one fellow 'in the know': russia sold gps jammers (serious ones, not the chinese pocket gizmos off ebay) to iraq, shortly prior to '03 american invasion. but iraq didn't pay the full invoice. so, the vendor neglected to remind the buyer that they must be arranged in a ring pattern and operated in unison ☟︎
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BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I was kind of hoping the Russianmilitary reforms from Georgia to Crimea would have also been evidenced in the missile fleet...
asciilifeform: can't speak for the chicoms. but, given as their machines are more recent, perhaps they do the obvious thing - targeting the loud, unmistakeable radio-cacophony of the target
benkay: <mircea_popescu> benkay 300 dollar shirt, no underwear works better. // by the time i feel okay about buying 300 dollar shirts, i hopefully can delegate the harrasment of neighbors.
asciilifeform: and thus off by 200+km without fail
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: russian rockets are traditionally specced to the 'texas sharpshooter' method
BingoBoingo: I mean unless Russian and Chinese missile guidance is that shitty... Then... I'm fucked...
BingoBoingo: Bunkers and chemsuits would be a bit much here. It's not that close and the wind tend to be favorable... I'm more concerned about the windstorms, but if I'm protecting against that unlike the neighbors buying new windows might as well find a solution that offers utility in a few more situations.
asciilifeform: most people, at least, have the sense to solve the latter problem another way.
asciilifeform: consider, likewise, the infamous 'suit for surviving bear attack'
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: all others - if they can afford it, live elsewhere, rather than building bunkers, investing in chemsuits, escape vehicles
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: notice that the folks who are forced to live 'in a target' on account of their profession, have rather different nukefest preparations than the crap traditionally suggested to commoners
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Well, wind storms are a thing here and... should a hot war start with a nuclear power... I live all to close to Air Mobility command atm to count on these plastic window blinds to save me from radiation poisoning while I wait out the initial fallout's decay.
BingoBoingo actually fancies the eventual acquisition of z-weighted storm shutters.
BingoBoingo: I've heard... cycling my Mossberg tends to quiet the neighborhood from third hand reports...
BingoBoingo: I like my current level of OL vs. IRL identity taint which is nearly complete, but maintained because I like it and it keep sthe lowest nags away.
mircea_popescu: one just has to be jewish enough about it.
asciilifeform: 'tight' understood to mean, actually making an effort to conceal your human name
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> that's when i realized that talking about anything worthwhile under a 'tight' alias is arduous to the degree that it's probably not worth it <<
asciilifeform: ^ the piece in question
asciilifeform: 'Which, in fact, I had. Because I'd essentially told him his research was fraudulent. The fact that my research was also fraudulent, and that neither of ours was particularly noteworthy in that regard, did not matter. And why should it? Others' crimes cannot excuse your own.' ☟︎
asciilifeform: 'My Navrozov moment, of course, was when I approached one of the two - Sacco, I think - and attempted to have an intellectual discussion of this realization. The story is basically the same as Navrozov's, so it would be boring to repeat, but basically I came away with the feeling that I'd told someone his Sicilian grandmother liked to get drunk and fuck her own goats.' ☟︎
asciilifeform: 'At some point during this period, however, I realized that the entire problem was a complete and utter pseudo-problem. ... So I am very confident that neither of these techniques, neither mine nor Sacco and Vanzetti's, has ever been used in practice. There is no need for them, there has never been any need for them, and there will never be any need for them. And this was quite obvious in 1993.' ☟︎
asciilifeform: 'Sacco and Vanzetti came up with an entirely different solution to the slow-MMU problem, one which if I do say so myself was less imaginative than mine, but both more general and more practical. They published theirs in a real conference, received much acclaim for it, and I believe patented it, started a so-called company and eventually sold it to Microsoft.' ☟︎
asciilifeform: going back to mr mold:
asciilifeform: not worth it unless you're paid for the sweat (or perhaps half a step ahead of the gasenwagen...)
asciilifeform: and then understand that you can't use actual life experiences, etc. in conversation
asciilifeform: folks who do this for a living (e.g. spying) come with 'cover' biographies and essentially live the life of an actor