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asciilifeform: pankkake: more like a spoon. the latter is guaranteed not to stab you in the eye spontaneously, if used as prescribed. by pure physical fact of it being what it is.
mircea_popescu: the idea is to make objects which depend on no externality. as long as they function, they function securely, and this as a matter of fact rather than convention.
mircea_popescu: and for the other, take lavabit as a convenient example. the theoretical privacy offered by the service depended on a godaddy ssl cert and the owner's resistance to fbi court orders.
mircea_popescu: or "as long as you use gizmo Y, your data will be absolutely destroyed if you fart. no exceptions."
mircea_popescu: such as, "as long as you use gizmo X, there is no way for anyone to listen in to your coversation. no matter what."
ieatcows: just saw this update if anyone is an ADDICTION holder. --- Some good news at last! As we speak, 9 miners are on their way to our datacenter. Since we don't trust UPS ;) (and UPS does not deliver on the weekends) we are picking them up ourselves :) We picked them up this afternoon so they should arrive in the morning (European time) where we will have them hashing asap!
jurov: lol but having useful code written in malbolge... maybe it could be treated as black box then
mircea_popescu: picostocks thing is such a website masquerading as an exchange.
mircea_popescu: some websites masquerading as exchanges specialise in listing scams/
mircea_popescu: not as hard as you'd think.
kakobrekla: as i said, my nuclear power plant works fine on php.
mike_c: pankkake is saying that it does the same thing as other languages, only worse.
mircea_popescu: this arguing as to why php is not the best tool to write nuclear power plant supervision tools and spacecraft controlsoftware entirely misses the point.
asciilifeform: 'owns and operates' counts as 'targeting' now ?
kleeck: So, if you have time to remove any amount of that do you get charged or does it qualify as a banking error and they eat the cost?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform check this shit out : "Only 517 full time magistrate judges and 42 part-time magistrate judges plus some weirdo who is both magistrate judge and court clerk, as of 2009. Guess there couldn’t have been many more in 1993. So I’ll start looking for or making that list. Probably start next week because of the blogging thing."
asciilifeform: L's system, lame as it was for obvious reasons, was unusual in that regard.
mircea_popescu: re-reading the transcript it sort-of makes it sound as if the fbi and the judge had prior agreement
mircea_popescu: for instance a warrant for the search of all cars in new york "to see if there's anything fishi going on" is not general as long as there;s a dept of transportation rule against people being assholes on the road.
mircea_popescu: according to this nutjob a search is not general if it is objectively general as long as there's some sort of theoretical limitation on the generality.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you're probably right that this is a crackpot hypothesis, it presumes competence where, as far as we know, none is left
mircea_popescu: well obviously, as it diodn't exist in 73.
mircea_popescu: at any rate, as far as i know the average grad student takes a few months to gather 25 btc in living grants/we, and if literate should be able to complete the task in that time.
mircea_popescu: whereas women that suck cock have a less than twice as better chances to progress.
mircea_popescu: In an interesting work-around, Levison complied the next day by turning over the private SSL keys as an 11 page printout in 4-point type. The government, not unreasonably, called the printout “illegible.”
kakobrekla: yeah i might register as well there
Rannasha: Hmm.. I'm disappointed that they guy didn't even send 2-3 BTC transactions to that address to at least make it appear as if people are taking the offer
Rawted: i have to be honest, i always thought that if the silk road place went down, bitcoin would go with it, as i simply dont see enough commerce available.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i updated my article from yest. the entire lulz angle isn't quite as adequate nao.
mircea_popescu: as in, fbi AND dea were doing it ?
phish: if they do knock on yoru door, just ask for a lawyer as vex said ;)
Vexual: im horny as a motherfucker lol
kakobrekla: as the buy bar was rising
dexX7: message from burnside via btct/am: I'll process the divs soon as bitcoin talk is back and I can verify the proper payout amounts. Sorry about the delay.
Vexual: The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.
pankkake: jurov: I hope it will be common in the future. even as simple relays
pankkake: dub: as asual. by bribing bitbet staff
dub: As we look at the situation in the security arena. we see an awful lot of big companies . Fortune 100-level companies . with, to be perfectly candid, appalling security. They have fundamentally no idea what they.re doing,
mircea_popescu: much less likely, he's about to rape the feds as per that bet.
mircea_popescu: you sign a STAT, then encrypt it as normal, then go to http://dpaste.com/ and paste it in there
mircea_popescu: given the extreme levels of retardation displayed in that complaint, the notion is starting to form that what if they got the wrong guy as part of the largest trollexperiment 4chan ever created.
bitesak: decisions made in panic rarely work out as hoped
Apocalyptic: bgupta, bitstamp's engine is lagging as hell...
mircea_popescu: this would be nice if it didn't use the exact same verbiage as used to describe tor, the honeypot network.
mircea_popescu: buttcoins will end up known as popescu's 100.
mircea_popescu: and then pretend as if this braindamaged mess is due some credit or recognition or something.
jurov: or, better, to be used as seed for electrum,to get a seed for deterministic keys
mircea_popescu: almost as funny as the forum securities.
mod6: i've never even seen -t, only that on *bsd/linux you can either enter "now" or a future TIME as [yymmddhhss]: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=shutdown&sektion=8
jborkl: they left the password as root also
kakobrekla: good as new
mircea_popescu: what's response error anyway, it should give it as a paste neh ?
kakobrekla: he is now known as "YiFuck"
jurov: you seem as if that can be decided with mathemtical clarity
jurov: even children *are* being redistributed, for reasons such as neglect
pankkake: labcoin guy. as a trusted member to confirm they actually have some chips working
mircea_popescu: little phenomena known as shelving.
mircea_popescu: jesus god. we're going to end up with a dispute as to what "delivered" means, to go with the one about what "unit" means
mircea_popescu: saulimus i'd much prefer an explanation as to why exactly did he just lie above about his ip showing his location as "in the same building".
mircea_popescu: it's an open proxy that's "in the same building" as the multi-faceted mr whatshisnametoday.
zhenhua_wang: please join #labcoin for main storyline as to see
zhenhua_wang: to avoid us being labelled as a 'scam' or others we are here to show that we do indeed have a mining operation underway
mircea_popescu: i mean, it's one thing to be a scammy fuck. it's another to be as fucking stupid as you people.
zhenhua_wang: We will see if we can post some more informations such as pictures at a later stage
zhenhua_wang: well, it's same building as you can see
jborkl: anything built in Sweden is wierd as shit
pankkake: as far as I understand, they would be much more expensive than a sha256 asic, because of the memory requirements
_Neil: OK; seeing as some of your highest taking bets have been around difficulty I don't understand your rejection of a well-judged one.
kakobrekla: enough BTC through the fee to cover the initial outlay, the bet will be rejected with that message. As such a 10BTC original wager is an absolute
kakobrekla: Because of this if an otherwise acceptable bet (such as to text, topic etc) is judged by the moderator as statistically unlikely to generate
kakobrekla: BitBet supplies no less than 0.1 BTC as seed wagers on any new bet accepted. BitBet also charges 1% on all bets made.
VanCleef: where is ThickAsThieves lately? Has he done a runner as well
random_cat: i can report as we sort it out, but for the moment i am ignorant
random_cat: i sure as fuck hope so
Diablo-D3: as opposed to bloakchains
mircea_popescu: ie, arbitrary sums paid by govt as salaries and then taken back as taxes.
Vexual: as far as i know, theres no book yet
Vexual: taking 1 random human out of 7 billion, it's just as likely this cat can't read the atomic clock as varience
mircea_popescu: "that kate character's site is all mottoed out with "a female entrepreneur!" "a female techie!" and it's like...bizarre, it's like acquiring traits which you don't naturally have but want, and then acting as though those same traits are a disadvantage that you've persevered through or something."
pankkake: labcoin is supposed to be doing an irc q&a, but has not stated excatly when (as usual)
mircea_popescu: as you can see, i am a pale imitation of the classics.
mircea_popescu: having lost its Leuconian wool, as old trousers of a Britonic pauper, and as the ugly throat of a Ravennan pelican. I am said to have fucked her in a marine fishpond. I do not know; I think I fucked the fishpond."
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller : "Lydia is as loose as the ass of a bronzed horseman, as a swift hoop that rings with the melodious bronze, as the wheel so often passed through with the springboard without being touched, as an old shoe soaked in muddy water, as the sparse nets that wait for errant thrushes, as the awnings denied to the wind at Pompey's Theater, as a bracelet fallen from a tuberculotic passive [cinaedo], as a mattress
Vexual: crafty as fuck
Vexual: humans as a commodity for the resourcseful addict
nubbins`: i think part of the problem is insisting on dressing such things up as securities
nubbins`: suppose these things were presented not as securities but as co-ops
TAT_Investments: the license fees are derived from the Euro market as a whole, for example
nubbins`: i disagree, but whether they have the right is irrelevant; they act as if they do
nubbins`: exchanges shutting down because of fear of regulators is kind of limiting as well
nubbins`: and i think that businesses directly involved with btc wouldn't see the move to tor as much of a jump
nubbins`: i mean, it's slow as fuck, so HFT is out the window
TAT_Investments: ones that can act as a black/grey market
kakobrekla: nah you just go to new.bitcoinexchange.com and create on, its as easy as setting up a blog on wordpress!
nubbins`: but, then, you're just trusting that other developer as well
CheckDavid: FabianB, take it as an abstract concept for now
CheckDavid: As long as it fits into a profitable business plan, even if tightly
pankkake: "Interest calculated as: (YOUR_BALANCE / TOTAL_USER_BALANCE) * 25% of fees"
CheckDavid: A funding platform with trading of stocks as well?
phungus: as far as we know