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mircea_popescu: maybe as a cockring
mircea_popescu: it's been kept alive since by various doods wishing to pose as miners
Vexual: the vines are as old as our country and the waitresses are too far from home to drive
mircea_popescu: i don't think sore losers are as much a problem as stupid losers are.
Vexual: i see everything as a win, but im unstable
nubbins`: this may come as a surprise, but most people have no particular interest in leaving the place they were born and raised in
nubbins`: brassy as a doorknob!
Vexual: and in bitcoin we have a unique, as yet untyested case
Vexual: compare that to a similar organisation such as hezbollah
Vexual: its interesting to see these industrial innovations changing the new reserve currency as america loses it's grasp that was built with industrial innovation
mircea_popescu: especially iof the miners come as a business expense.
mircea_popescu: as the old saying goes, "money is no object"
kleeck: I'd expect as much.
ThickAsThieves: chart reading is self-fulfilling as well
bitesak: as it is crazy times, chances of a 1000 rally and crash is possible
mircea_popescu: just as long as it doesn't do retarded shit like shoot up through 1k or w/e.
bitesak: is it reasonable to argue it is in China's interest to support and accumulate bitcoins as a hedge and part of an exit of their dwindling USD base as well as precipating even faster the demise of the dollar?
Azelphur: mircea_popescu: I'm dubious as to if a difficulty spike of this magnitude will happen again for a while now though - we've jumped through all iterations of current technology
mircea_popescu: by their distorted reasoning, as there's not enough tax income to satisfy both of these, there will be a default.
mircea_popescu: the situation ios like this : each state has some income as tax receipts, and some expenses. in actual reality, the first claim to tax receipts goes to servicing the debt.
mod6: wow: In 2009, a Montgomery County, Maryland, teacher berated and had school police remove a 13-year-old girl who refused to say the Pledge of Allegiance in the classroom. The student's mother, assisted by the American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland, sought and received an apology from the teacher, as state law and the school's student handbook both prohibit students from being forced to recite the Pledge
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I'm pretty sure I've told him before, but as long as I don't triple dot elipse it should be in the logs
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: Cardano will be "as cheap as possible, but not cheaper."
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: you will definitely want to de-bias the noise, as most microphones pick up periodic interference (e.g. mains hum)
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: The 89 at least has a 3.5 like audio jack. I'm kind of leaning towards Mircea's orgy microphone as a seed input idea.
nubbins`: i think they were updating that as late as 1997
BingoBoingo: nubbins`: I actually acquired it at the same school surplus auction as the Mac Classic I need to replace with the SE/30. It was about $75 I spent that day on three computers, two barcode/QR guns, and a printer.
BingoBoingo: nubbins`: Maybe/Probably. I've found a QR code gun for its weird Serial port though. The only reason I'm thinking SE/30 is NetBSD won't build on the Mac Classic I have as it requires the 030 or 020 plus coprocessor.
benkay: far more effective to just freeze water and then use that as the heat sink for a turbine if you have local waste heat
jurov: lol they can be used as seats, too... you sit on it, cause pressure increase, car starts moving
gecko_x2: but this post doesn't mention coins as i'm thinking
gecko_x2: and as the 1 month encrypted data, when it's time to decrypt
gecko_x2: i think that a single static key as a concept is pretty much dead
bitesak: I'll probably start with one, test it and do my best to understand it and use it as a means to promote use of GPG among friends and girlfriends
bitesak: i see it as the first physical product made through and thanks to bitcoin, other than Bitcoin coins and Tshirt branded stuff I guess.
nubbins`: if the grocery store isn't going to take your gold for payment, you can have as much of it as you want
pankkake: as in, 10-20+ years
pankkake: as we say, « vivons cachés, vivons heureux » (live hidden, live happy)
dub: also the guy outed as having stabbed old ladies to death in a drunken rampage
kakobrekla: broken as fuck.
turbo_ac100: "the last" doesn't refer to the last increase, i.e. 20% -> 24 % and so on but rather "the last" difficulty as in ;;diffchange will be > 20%
turbo_ac100: o_O I just noticed http://bitbet.us/bet/555/difficulty-to-continue-increasing-by-over-20/ is ambiguous. "Each BTC network difficulty change as reported by gribble before the end of January 2014 will be an increase of more than 20% over the last. "
fractal: all the idiots saying that bitcoin only has value because of SR --- i've been saying its not true for 2 years... now i am vindicated. i will be proven right again as we hit $250 this year once more
dub: fwiw I have been before the courts as more than defendant :)
mircea_popescu: anyway. i ended up getting a court order so extensive they ended up having to a) issue me a special made document, as in, without expiration date and b) modify their regulations.
mircea_popescu: most notably we had a dispute as to whether a foreign worker's qualifications are to be evaluated by its employer or the bureaucrats.
jurov: and if the adversary can time their attack precisely, they can as well tranquilize you right after you typed gpg passphrase
jurov: such as denying that attack vector exists "in any circumstance" mkay.
jurov: as evidenced by gpg --list-keys
nanotube: though it's certainly "not as much benefit as we'd hope"
nanotube: anyway, so my point is, it's good to have fde, to have easy 'blanket' protection against the common issue of accidental loss. and then you can use another layer such as gpg to protect the 'really important stuff'
mircea_popescu: nanotube as long as it's not bootable, perhaps it can be well implemented.
nanotube: and if you do the same, you got my gpgd stuff just as well.
mircea_popescu: nanotube and as to "use both" : the point of science, any science, is to isolate what works from what doesn't and exclude the latter. this is why dentist treats your teeth his way rather than recommending you "also use shaman method".
nanotube: gecko_x2: indeed. the information has served as a catalyst for thought and improvement.
nanotube: gecko_x2: yea, but one could avoid using the on-cpu rng. as to tor: would be even better if we had more nodes. there are only a total of 4k-ish.
nanotube: aye, gpg is just as vulnerable to hardware keyloggers as full disk encryption. if that's your threat model, there's no reason to recommend one over the other.
dexX7: thus "full disk encryption ... that as of yet does not work" is somewhat incorrect imho. lame analogy: "passwords don't work, because you can install trojaner/keylogger"
dexX7: http://threatpost.com/how-defeat-full-disk-encryption-one-minute-101909/72345 << this attack is super lame.. same as: "but what if the attacker installs a hardware keylogger?"
mircea_popescu: "Dr. Garrow states President Obama had Tom Clancy killed as well and noted that it takes 5 days for plant toxins and most poisons to break down and leave no traces in the human body. Amazingly enough, or coincidentally, the doctors did not perform an autopsy on Tom Clancy’s body for 5 days."
mircea_popescu: hope as to what ?
mircea_popescu: In April 2006, fugitive Mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano was captured in Sicily partly because some of his messages, written in a variation of the Caesar cipher, were broken. Provenzano's cipher used numbers, so that "A" would be written as "4", "B" as "5", and so on.
mircea_popescu: it just makes a show as if it has.
_Neil: Unless something's end-to-end encrypted I can't really trust it. It's that simple. It's not my job as an honest person to figure out how to break it. I know it's been done many times.
pankkake: yes. as a throwaway OS / live cd
mircea_popescu: for the further record, any piece of hardware that was ever at any point in its life connected to the internet can no longer be used as part of an airgapped system. period.
mircea_popescu: i dropped the link as a response to your blog comment,
mircea_popescu: as prev discussed, those things are mostly a teaching tool. the same reason you don't race cars made out of legos, you don't use the openpgp smartcard for actual security.
kakobrekla: and attach as many other not needed inputs
kakobrekla: is there such thing as nilema?
ThickAsThieves: as if they had a stake
mircea_popescu: [17:56:26] shareholder1 mpex will be classified as money launderers and terrorists
mircea_popescu: [17:56:20] da2ce796 as in, mpex will stop being our compittion.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves anyway, in case that was before your time, "[17:05:52] shareholder3_ midterm this will win against MPEX and others as they will get shut down soon too"
gecko_x2: is the same as complaining to your torturer that keeps u in his basement about the quality of his food
ozbot: (11:41) < mod6> i started my new blockchain pull at the same time as trying to u - Pastebin.com
nubbins`: my last name is pronounced the same way as the word for marijuana in morocco
nospinzy: traveling with women is fucking anoying as shit
nubbins`: mircea_popescu: travel with a woman and you preclude yourself from meeting nearly as many other women
nubbins`: mircea_popescu: might as well be
nospinzy: well i wouldnt change it, like i said police acting as the gang or nigs running around with guns scarring white people
mjr_: drug business is the same as all business
mjr_: same as anytingelse
mircea_popescu: mjr_ the cost for the joe schmoes to understand and use multi tx > the probable loss to them as is.
nubbins`: mjr_: so a 3-party tx where the site acts as escrow?
ThickAsThieves: you give your money to drug distributor as credit for future buys
mircea_popescu: as well as a bunch of "child porn" files on all hard drives
mircea_popescu: tho the lavabit prosecutor was TRYING, as the judge pointed out
mircea_popescu: the usg is not that advanced as of yet.
ThickAsThieves: might as well cover that too
jurov: What if Silk Road is holding some of your Bitcoins as part of some transaction? Why, all you have to do is show up and make a claim for them — in a case in which the government is saying that all or substantially all of the transactions through Silk Road are federal crimes. Bring a toothbrush.
nubbins`: see, traditional korean food is not only delicious as fuck, but good for you
nubbins`: as is kimchi jjigae
nubbins`: not as repressed as japan, but close
nubbins`: SK as a rule are intensely dedicated to this
mircea_popescu: jesus twitter is almost as stupid as reddit by now.
mircea_popescu: make it clear that as long as the provincial govt continues with the practice, everyone's weekeend is shot.
nubbins`: "so basically if you abandoned your shopping cart because you wanted a cointerra instead, ken is still counting your order as a sale"
jimmy2k: i will upload the screen in the forum as soon as i am at home
nubbins`: although obv just as likely to happen as any other given 40-roll combo