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kanzure: oculus is
the wrong form factor anyway
mike_c: asciilifeform: new oculus is 960x1080 per eye.
that beats svga :)
jborkl: Neo bee halted for abnormal
trading activity
kanzure: mircea_popescu: it's
the principle
mircea_popescu: who
the fuck wants
to view porn on airplanes. so you get yourself all good and ready and
then what ? ask
the stewardess
to draw
the curtain and
the girls
to drop
the
tops ?
andyfletcher: /me is happy
to wave a finger in
the direction of
the SEC and say "Not allowed"
mircea_popescu: perhaps because
the press isn't very well equipped
to report
these days.
mircea_popescu: andyfletcher anyway, you should get a cookie for being
the first commentator of
the matter
to have spotted it. somehow
the press covered it extensively but failed
to notice stuff like
that.
kanzure: but
the upper bound is probably 2000
Apocalyptic: <kanzure> Apocalyptic: way
too much
time man // i bet, was looking for something quantitative
mircea_popescu: they can't even comply with
the actual fed regulations on document handling.
kanzure: Apocalyptic: way
too much
time man
ozbot: Parallel Port Interface
to
the Private Eye P4 Head-Mounted Display
kanzure: asciilifeform: oh,
then mike
told me about you
kanzure: nope i haven't
touched wii yet
bounce: kanzure, just buy some gm corn in
the nearest supermarket
mircea_popescu: kasa32 yeah. well... i've been here preparing
things for many years so far.
andyfletcher: looks like
the pdf was wrong in
the SEC assertion
that handing over
the data wasn't against EU data protection regs. MEMO/13/923 and MEMO/14/60 which were approved by
the EU Parliament on 2014/03/14 refer
to 'all natural persons'. Not just EU citizens.
kanzure: asciilifeform: are you
the p90 guy
kanzure: asciilifeform: if i had
to pay $40M for every completely custom genome, pfft
kasa32: <mircea_popescu> I've seen some
tweets about
the letter you received
bounce: in a way
the habitually ignored overly verbose blatter found in intrusive popups on desktops
today is
the other extreme... with
the same effect
kanzure: asciilifeform: every
time venter announces another $40M genome i just laugh
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if
that worked bitcoin would be full of ceos, venture capitalists and other peaks of intellectual achievement.
mircea_popescu: "I was born like
this, I had no choice. I was born with
the gift of a golden voice"
bounce: apropos
therac-25,
that was
that
thing
that only pooped out cryptic numbers
to be looked up into large books of errors?
bounce: you've been
training for
that, haven't you?
benkay: without assholes on
the committee, how can you even know
the members are human?
mircea_popescu: bounce in general it's been my experiences
that only committees
that include at least one asshole yield anything usable.
kanzure: so.. if anything, don't
talk
to me about
time.
kanzure: you're
talking
to
the guy who reverse engineered pokemon red and crystal
bounce: by people with suitable detachment as ooposed
to
the usual driven
to do good
type
mircea_popescu: bounce a lot more
thought will have
to be poured into
those
things
kanzure: asciilifeform: so did you reverse engineer
the
tecan protocol or did you just buy
their sdk or what?
bounce: well,
though
this is a dangerous suggestion, might look at some sort of
theoretical underpinning of why regulating, with what overarching goal if you will. I don't really see
them do more
than plug holes
that may or may not exist
mircea_popescu: (comp
took out some plastic stoppers
to save on costs)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform do you know
the story of
the irradiation accidents with medical equipment cause of
this problem ?
kasa32: I'm just saying you need
to be careful and prepare yourself
mircea_popescu: kasa32 are we
trying
to write a block buster movie script here ?
kasa32: it's not like
they haven't done
this before
kasa32: <mircea_popescu>
they can also charge you of conspiring
to help US citizens avoid
taxes and such and whatever charges or charge you with money laundry
mircea_popescu: bounce
the curse of regulators, in all
times and places, is
that
they can't afford
to hire
the sort of brainpower
they need.
kanzure: asciilifeform: do you know
the
transcriptic.com people?
bounce: possibly.
there's also
them being wilfully ignorant, even impotent, in eg.
the flash crash
thing
kanzure: asciilifeform: cool. let me bounce some ideas around in my head. i might be aware of some opportunities (nobody
that would want
to outright buy
this, but.. stuff
that is happening.)
mircea_popescu: once done with
that pile it may be sensible
to examine wtf is what.
mircea_popescu: there's a
thousand
to go
that i and anyone else with a shred of sanity left would readily agree are prosecutable
mircea_popescu: bounce i don't
think
that discussion is yet ripe. so far
they've prosecuted one guy.
kanzure: asciilifeform: well, you could always sell it
to someone else i guess
bounce: they're chasing an idea of "fairness"
that's a poor fit
to fiat, possibly worse for bitcoin
mircea_popescu: than go all out with idiocy
that'll never work a la us congress.
kanzure: mircea_popescu: i don't have a specific project in mind, and if i did, i would just buy
the dna from a synthesis company.
kasa32: <mircea_popescu> yes but if you are called as a witness in a
trial,
they might bring you
there by force
tg2: And issue requests for information
to
the SEC
mircea_popescu: kanzure which is why i am
trying
to get a specific out of you.
kanzure: mircea_popescu: all sorts of
things. it's a basic requirement for conducting almost any interesting molecular biology project ever.
kanzure: asciilifeform:
to sell back
to
tecan?
mircea_popescu: kasa32 i mean because
there's no such
thing as an arrest in civil proceedings, and i never heard of an arrested witness yet and so on and so forth.
kanzure: benkay: not
that i know of
kanzure: asciilifeform: i've poked at
tecan
things. in particular i was playing with jcline's perl library for
tecan control.
benkay: is he involved in
the low-g stuff as well?
kanzure: mircea_popescu: i had a colleague on
that project and he's still convinced
that microfluidics is
the way
to go, so he's still working on
that in portland
mircea_popescu: kanzure no no, with
the 10micron channels and other stupid hard problems
kasa32: <mircea_popescu> civil matter? Kim Dotcom was civil matter also and US managed
to get him arrested so...
kanzure: oh good, yeah he was okay at
that