asciilifeform: and removal of the latter turns it, suddenly, into a usable item...
asciilifeform: took thing apart, found that the main cells DRAIN THROUGH THE BACKUP
asciilifeform: sooooo recently asciilifeform bought a 1990s-style electrodictionary for a language . and like any 1990s gadget, it also 'is a phone book, and organizer' and other misc rubbish , and this rubbish functionality required a DIFFERENT calibre of watch battery from the 2 main 3v cells. and would whine that 'memory batt low' etc, while draining main cells in MINUTES after insertion:
asciilifeform: guess which number had moar zeros in front.
asciilifeform: i knew a d00d who ended up in this typical meat grinder : he supplied 100% of the income, she -- 100% of the debt
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: ianal but i was under the impression that anything within nato reich with yer name on it somewhere, is Officially confiscatable
asciilifeform: 'Romania fucked up literally everything in World War 2. They lost Transylvania to their allies. The Romanian government hated Jews, tried to exterminate them, but then realized that their economy couldn’t survive without them. '
asciilifeform: nsa certainly does not such thing tho
asciilifeform: 'STS = roughly equivalent to a combination of the American NSA and NRO, the STS also manages the emergency number (112) dispatch centers' >> waiwat
asciilifeform: i know of version in fr, sp, portuguese, italian, even english
asciilifeform: oh hey is there a ro incarnation of the ubiqutous ww2 'song of the devil' ?
asciilifeform: american occupation soldiers in jp were taught, Officially, to say 'don't touch the moustache' <-> どういたしまして (dou itashimashite) - 'you're welcome'
asciilifeform: that's almost as good as 'bread of the sieve cable' <-> 'бред сивой кобылы'
asciilifeform: betcha a phuctor-flavoured www that invites idjit to 'insert privkey for inspection for weak' would get ~something~ in the basket at the end of the day
asciilifeform: in other reichlulz, 'Marlène Schiappa, France’s gender equality minister (yes, that’s a thing), has proposed putting forward a bill in parliament that would fine people for engaging in street harassment — including aggressive catcalls.'
asciilifeform: universe came with afaik no guarantee that enemy is dumb.
asciilifeform: idea is not 'magical camera, catches everything' but to turn the enemy's own psychosis against himself : now ~any~ ventilation hole, in any side of any iron, could theoretically be pinhole cam.
asciilifeform: it'd be part of any design where asciilifeform fills a cabinet with own hands and locks the door.
asciilifeform: if it's ~your~ cabinet, you know its geometry and where box sits, neh.
asciilifeform: no particular reason for it to look adhoc or in any way unusual.
asciilifeform: you put it in a standard 1u box, wat.
asciilifeform: like chukcha and his geologist's flashlight
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: every once in a while, they beg/buy/borrow/steal something authored by actual people
asciilifeform: maybe the extra 2 fingers, threw'em off, lol
asciilifeform: any object supplied by randos can theoretically be 'alive'.
asciilifeform: while we're on subj, the infamous 'ont catalogue' featured not only boobytrapped routers etc but... ethernet jacks with 'intelligence', boobied cables
