asciilifeform: 'BaseN, established in 2001, is the inherently scalable computing Platform for hosting billions of spimes, the core objects of the Internet of Things'
asciilifeform: uropean IP Carrier KPNQwest. He has received the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Pioneer Award...'
asciilifeform: 'BaseN, Global IoT Operator, is delighted to announce the appointment of Mr. Johan Helsingius as the new Chairman of the Board of Directors as of May 23, 2016. He has served as a board member since 2002. Johan Helsingius founded the first major commercial ISP in Finland, EUnet, and co-founded the first pan-European ISP, EUnet International. He held the position of Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at largest pan-E
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what do you suppose i should say to him ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: possibly. 1st i gotta figure out whether i already did this, lol
asciilifeform: and iirc we also had thread re how crapple is not in business because asciilifeform reads trb coad and 1970s 'химия и жизнь' on a crappad
asciilifeform: ( i suspect this is an exact rerun of the ebay thread, so i'll stop here for nao )
asciilifeform: and yes lolazon et al are in business because folx order twinkies, not because asciilifeform orders cr1220.
asciilifeform: the instrument you have is the one you have, and it wants a 1220 batt. nao wat.
asciilifeform: not everything is fungible, esp if budget is made of something other than rubber
asciilifeform: 'don't keep machinery that wants 1220 ' lol goodluck
asciilifeform: example. recently asciilifeform needed a cr1220 battery. they keep - theoretically - for decade on shelf. in practice, few yrs ( chinese ). 0 source of these within a day's drive . so ordered, and next day it was in.
asciilifeform: phf: not only schematic above dun explode, but ideally it would not even zero key, but rngize, so enemy has nfi whether trap sprung or not
asciilifeform: that's what i specified, thought it was obvious.
asciilifeform: not the detonating sort of trap, but the key-wipin' sort
asciilifeform: if he fails to silently break even ~one~, you have a working otp !
asciilifeform: note that these 'tanks' do not have to be impregnable, in order to work. if the enemy has a 1 in 10 chance of breaking it -- send a crate with 100 and xor'em. for so long as it is easier for you to make'em than for him to crack'em, by a wide margin, he is fucked
asciilifeform: if operating normally, however -- pisses out, say, byte/sec optically through glass.
asciilifeform: for sake of argument, pour it (+ power source) into glass globe. if package detects that temp is too far from room, or that the globe got smaller in any axis ( e.g. internal refraction will change ) -- blows the sram.
asciilifeform: there does exist such a thing as a physical limit.
asciilifeform: i disagree that it crumbles : if you were to find a nonparallelizable trapdoor that no one is likely to outrun you in computing -- you have the item.
asciilifeform: it is not necessarily impossible to do this.
asciilifeform: it only becomes interesting if we can turn the 10 to a 0.
asciilifeform: now if we can put a bound on the enemy's advantage in calculating the (nonparallelizable, note, it should be clear why ) output -- we have the item.
asciilifeform: 'ticks' meaning how many increments of nonce here.
asciilifeform: now let's picture, enemy captures the box.
asciilifeform: 2 ) a mechanism similar to bitcoin's sha2 pow, where it grinds out a collision , the number of ticks that it took, xor'd with pad loc i, then next i+1 , .... , until pad runs out.
asciilifeform: consists of 1) an ordinary, trivially copied otp, e.g. a hdd full of fuckgoatsolade ;
asciilifeform: to demonstrate, here's a design for an object that meets the described spec , if p!=np :
asciilifeform: whole q is whether they are contradictory. i say not.
asciilifeform: i.e. an otp that is intrinsically safe to transport.
asciilifeform: ( i.e. can you make a matched pair of otp such that 1) output is cryptoentropic 2) can only leave the device at particular baud rate , no matter what is done to it ? )
asciilifeform: originally asciilifeform's interest in subj, will confess, was re 'uncopyable otp'.
asciilifeform: Friedemaan W. Schneider, Marcus J. B. Hauser, Joachim Reising ; Berichte der Bunsengesellschaft für physikalische Chemie , january 1993 .
asciilifeform: half cells. With an increasing load the phase shift between the two half cells decreases (i.e. both oscillations tend to synchronize), consequently the amplitude of the alternating current decreases while the amplitudes of the individual BZ-oscillators remain unaffected. '
asciilifeform: 'We built a true alternating current (a.c.) battery that periodically reverses value and sign of its electromotive force (e.m.f.). This a.c. battery is an electrochemical concentration cell that consists of two coupled half cells in which identical oscillating Belousov-Zhabotinskii (BZ) reactions take place isothermally at 28.0°. The homogeneous BZ oscillations are phase shifted in order to create a potential difference between both
asciilifeform: meanwhile, in very other olds, asciilifeform bites at his elbows, one of his coffinnotebook ideas, turns out , was in fact made long ago :
asciilifeform: gotta love the socialistoid bent of such articles : when, e.g., police dispatcher goes down, or self-driving coffins , whatevers, mega-disaster; but microshit's crafted prevention of civilized comp as a class, is business as usual and a-ok
asciilifeform: where there is 1 cockroach, there is 11.
