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TheNewDeal: asciilifeform how did you know about chicago elevators? Is
that were you reside? I'm working in Chicago for
the next week...
decimation: Because you know
the weak link in your undrground missile silo with 10
ton doors is ...
the missile launch lock
decimation: there was some dumb
tv show like pawn stars or something like
that where some guy was
trying
to sell a "missile key" for $30k if I recall
TheNewDeal: mircea_popescu I've been
trying
to find a list of premine / scamcoins
that you provided in
the past. It was in a wikipedia format. Can't find it in
the logs
mircea_popescu: and so was a major vault hoilding
trillions worth of paper.
mircea_popescu: pankkake,
the "if both your house and your bank burn down you don't care"
theory is pure nonsense.
mircea_popescu: ;;later
tell bitcoinpete "He fleeced -assette extraordinaire kakobrekla for 145 BTC" doesn't seem an accurate rendition. iirc usagi sold pirate insurance, which he paid up on.
decimation: implementing a
turing machine would just re-invent
the cpu model
decimation: Yeah I guess you can wire
the address lines for
the input
to link
to
the outputs you want
to simulate
mircea_popescu: <TheNewDeal> mp actually helped design
that? didn't know he had
that know-how << i'm really good at piggybacking on people's work.
TheNewDeal: I'm going
to go enjoy a smoke and ponder
that
thought
decimation: yeah I guess you can just craw
through its contents
turing-machine style
TheNewDeal: now I understand why
that crazy comp science
teacher
told me I had it easy
TheNewDeal: I
though
the card sorter was
the actual machine
that computed, no>
TheNewDeal: oh my gosh, just
talked
to
t his electrician
the other day
that
told me he used
to do maintenance on card sorters, like IBM's 074. Just
thought I'd
toss
that in on
the
topic of old hardware
decimation: the idea of swapping out a card in your CPU is amusing
to me
assbot: D-17B - Wikipedia,
the free encyclopedia
TheNewDeal: mp actually helped design
that? didn't know he had
that know-how
joecool: i have no idea what my keyboard controller is capable of anymore, so yeah points
totally valid
assbot: Loper OS »
Trilema 2014
TheNewDeal: or perhaps
that was just one component?
TheNewDeal: I
thought MPEX's NSA was developing some RNG
decimation: the next problem:
they have an auditable RNG, but how do you know
they are actually using it?
decimation: when you
think about it,
that's pretty silly, considering how easy it would be
to use an analog noise source
decimation: ascii does any commercial device you know about meet
this criteria?
mircea_popescu: so what is
to gain from
this jerking in
this circle as opposed
to others?
decimation: if your crypto wasn't designed
to defeat someone who knows everything about how it works,
then you are not in
the crypto business
mircea_popescu: that's why all
the old chryslers and whatnot have
them
mircea_popescu: joecool, finally someone explained bumper stickers
to me.
mircea_popescu: it's almost like wanting
to marry a virgin specifically.
decimation: this is
true, and even
the pros know it
joecool: mircea_popescu: stickers always make
things work better
decimation: Last I called, NIST wanted $5-10k for "labor costs"
to measure
the phase noise of a microwave oscillator
decimation: but but ascii
they said it's good
to 8 sigma!
decimation: it's a good point. Part of
the problem is
that actual calibrated analog noise sources are expensive
mircea_popescu: benkay, "it's all hazy probability fields at
this point" << so start before you fly over, get a nice scorpio, maybe it
turns out a girl with big green eyes etc.
decimation: well,
to be fair I
think
the application is
to generate noise for comms. simulation purposes, not crypto
joecool: asciilifeform: probably, I honestly never looked at
that, will go read now
decimation: You can just put
the user 4-digit pin into a key derivation algorithm :)
joecool: asciilifeform: pretty sure in
the case of
the smartcard it needs
to initialize
the card
to know
that it is, all it sees is a reader otherwise
joecool: the only assurance you have is a signature counter in
the smartcard
joecool: asciilifeform: i don't generate keys on card for
the rng issue, need
to upload from laptop, but yeah sure no way
to enter pin outside
the laptop
decimation: I also wonder if
the antiphase headphones are modulating my eardrums at frequencies beyond my perception
joecool: i'm a big fan of westone's products, i switched
to
them from shure awhile back
decimation: To be fair I haven't purchased
the fancy "pilot quality" headphones made by bose etc.
joecool: switched
to an amp and
they sounded like a very different pair
joecool: can be solved with an amp, i didn't believe sensitive IEM's would be affected
till i had a pair with a picky crossover
joecool: rolloff at lower freq is usually due
to running inefficient low impedance headphones off a bad source
decimation: I found really great NASCAR earphones
that have 30 dB attenuation down
to low frequencies - I look like a
tool on
the airplane