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bounce: that's 3.5e11 dollahs. maybe a little on the spendy side.
asciilifeform: consider the cost of sailing to just one precisely-specified coordinate pair in the deep sea
fluffypony: if anyone wants me to put them down as a CoinBr referral...first to give me their invitation code gets it
asciilifeform: bounce: not if you want 10,000 of them
bounce: parkers? but wouldn't a cold war bunker be cheaper then?
asciilifeform: or, when they do, barometer triggers detonator
asciilifeform: bounce: platform - psh. the whole point is to put them where nosy parkers can't get at them
bounce: maybe cheaper to get a 2nd hand sea platform or something
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jurov: how would they broadcast? ultrasound? or they'll automatically seek and tap fiber?
ThickAsThieves: the pinodecchio would need to be located in places deemed unfishable
fluffypony: asciilifeform: so going back to your bitcoin-undersea-nodes idea;)
bounce: and then you have a submarine. then what?
asciilifeform: fluffypony: they "need" $3.5 mil << one could build a... submarine. for this
fluffypony: HeySteve: on the thread
HeySteve: fluffypony where did you find that quote from the guy looking into Maidsafe?
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hanbot: ;;rate thickasthieves 1 Conscientious reflector.
fluffypony: asciilifeform: it's basically exactly like Freenet except for some reason they "need" $3.5 mil to write the software and launch
hanbot: why ty
HeySteve: so it seems scammy and now Karpeles is jumping in to the scam pool
HeySteve: seemed nice from the PR I guess? then there was some associated bullshit with Mastercoin pay-ins to get MaidSafe coins - I didn't really follow the story tho
HeySteve: a bit like Freenet I think
fluffypony: HeySteve: you linked to blockchain.info/ru/tags which is russian
HeySteve: sure I could've got thru that to someone with better net, despite their "T&Cs"
HeySteve: eh, was just on roof with pole trying to connect to WUG but trees seem to have firmly occluded signals
fluffypony: with a dangly piece of wire running precariously from your roof to the pole
fluffypony: bounce: depends on your distance to the MSAN here
fluffypony: should be a lot more stable than DSL
HeySteve: well there's the log, but it's that I'm trying to verify the story by searching about the blockchain and forum
fluffypony: HeySteve: MTN's fibre-to-the-home stuff is coming later this year
fluffypony: HeySteve: run a bouncer off a VPS or something, then you won't miss anything
HeySteve: learnt to tolerate most of it the time but writing breaking news is not the time for this crap
HeySteve: this rickety tincan s'effrican internet can go to the devil
fluffypony: ;;later tell bitcoinpete oh look, surprise surprise, stolen mtgox coins have been invested in MaidSafe - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=579797.msg6370815#msg6370815
fluffypony: the dude looking at the MaidSafe investments: "I've traced back the BTC Guild admin too. There're big guys involved in this scam."
fluffypony: asciilifeform: agreed, but this is for contractors and staff scattered all over the place; all ownCloud comm is over an https api
asciilifeform: if you're inside friendly walls, even 'nfs' ought to suffice
fluffypony: not talking about über-paranoid data, but spreadsheets and docs and the like
fluffypony: asciilifeform: if you're a company that doesn't want to trust your data to DropBox for sensitivity reasons, but still need to have similar functionality, it's great
asciilifeform: that's like building a replica of public toilet in your house.
fluffypony: Naphex: http://owncloud.org - it's just a FOSS implementation of a Google Drive/DropBox style service, so you have to host your own server to run it
Naphex: where you get an account manager that you know
Naphex: i'm not a fan of the cloud
asciilifeform: ;;rate hanbot 1 had the honour of meeting this user in person.
fluffypony: Naphex: I'm not, just a friend using them for his ownCloud data (1gbps colocated box)
Naphex: fluffypony: never used them. but i'n genereal i wouldn't run bitcoin services on anything else then dedicated owned servers :P
chetty: asciilifeform, sometimes I think that would be an improvement
asciilifeform: chetty: next thing we know, we're using delay-line storage again.
Luke-Jr: [13:11:59] <mircea_popescu> APPLE TO BE BANNED BY USG <-- please!
HeySteve: how you guys all doing today?
mircea_popescu: APPLE TO BE BANNED BY USG
mircea_popescu: well they're not french
mircea_popescu: you hear me ? put down the white powder and get to work, pancakefaces!
mircea_popescu: cause the idjits at his ss ain't doin' their job.
asciilifeform: if the kid can sign up for 'warcraft', why not wot ?
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mircea_popescu: hey, DRKP or KDPR or DERP or wtf it's called secret services : drop the man a memo wtf.
mircea_popescu: why is he not in the wot is what i wanna know. clearly he's seeking the approval of the people that make the world turn
Naphex: for the smallies
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: how bout a toast to true capitalism?
asciilifeform: ;;later tell kakobrekla pcb folks? do they also pick'n'place, SMT?
Naphex: time to do some benchs
asciilifeform: now toast to the five sappers. may they never err.
mircea_popescu: "i will take my prize in atc" the man says.
asciilifeform: benkay: "homomorphic or semi-homomorphic" encryption, where 3 parties each control << this is an entire science. see, for instance, Pascal Paillier's boojum.
asciilifeform: homomorph? what'd i miss in the log?
mircea_popescu: and the subsequent developments in finance.
mircea_popescu: benkay sure. a lot of excellent application for homomorphisms in crypto, many of them empowered/exposed by bitcoin
jurov: did obama try google car yet?
asciilifeform: in his place, i'd avoid standing next to programmable hydraulics.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes, which is why they have their own managers
asciilifeform: chetty: good time for a tragic 'bug', i'd say.
chetty: asciilifeform, he is bowing to it
mircea_popescu: it's how you treat kids you'd like to see grow up into people.
asciilifeform: well, it was 'here, try to make profit, do what you like'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: crew man #5 (TaT) sort of reminds me of my first exposure to MPEx.
ozbot: The wunderbar S.MPIF pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2014/the-wunderbar-smpif/ << updated, lots of stuff. including teh managers/pcs etc.
asciilifeform: it was also the only xilinx chip with 100% documented internals.
asciilifeform: (XC6216 was the one and only known fpga where random wiring was guaranteed -never- to release the magic smoke.)
kakobrekla: interestingly it tries to fix the correct word.
kakobrekla: it was coded way before -assets tbh, then repurchased
asciilifeform: ^ promised this to people at the conference
mircea_popescu: supybot i thought
asciilifeform: 'tis a machine that threads arses. thought this was clear.
thestringpuller: >:( unlike ThickAsThieves
mircea_popescu: consultancy, in the germanz view, is "omfg you are so stupid i can not even believe how stupid you are"
fluffypony asks his wife for a translation
fluffypony: ozbot: I think I confused you
fluffypony: ThickAsThieves: you can get tat.ventures
ThickAsThieves: ceo is a domain tld?
mircea_popescu: i couldn't care less tbh
fluffypony: looking at the new TLDs that are available...I can get rs.guru
mircea_popescu: Al Gore asserted that it’s crucial for global philanthropists to impose “fertility management” on Africa.
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ThickAsThieves: i still haz voice tho
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ThickAsThieves: ;;rate MagicalTux -10 took all my lulz away