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assbot: Logged on 15-06-2015 19:22:29; mircea_popescu: if the state went away tomorrow nobody'd even notice.
trinque: ag3nt_zer0: what is it that you want to learn?
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Russian are prettty well culturally jewish.
mircea_popescu: ag3nt_zer0 you'd be the first one here to use it.
assbot: Logged on 15-06-2015 04:02:58; funkenstein_: to quote noone you are likely to consider sane, you signed up when you chose to be born
BingoBoingo: ag3nt_zer0: Claws is a good email client, but do your email writing and reading outside of it and encrypt/decrypt outside of it
BingoBoingo: ag3nt_zer0: But mail client beats webmail, because webmail fuck up line endings and spacing
mircea_popescu: ag3nt_zer0 the fewer things involved, the less available to break. and yes, what he said.
BingoBoingo: ag3nt_zer0: Just encrypt and then paste into a mail client
ag3nt_zer0: ok ty mircea_popescu I am pretty confused... I have been following contravex guide - so is that preparing me to run locally? Or is utilizing enigmail through thunderbird attached to a gmail account no longer local? And is it just more secure to use plaintext over html? So much to learn...
assbot: Logged on 15-06-2015 03:51:29; funkenstein_: malcolm x says the state becomes necessary when one needs to separate those who have from those who have not
BingoBoingo: !up ag3nt_zer0
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes exactly what i meant.
mircea_popescu: and in Naphex news, http://33.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lrmr7k6kpn1qd2dcwo1_r1_500.gif
thestringpuller: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/39xdf3/bitstamp_withdrawal_17_days_and_counting_no/ << burnside resurfaces
assbot: Logged on 15-06-2015 15:56:08; pete_dushenski: i had my credit card number lifted in chicago a few years back, sekoority centre called me to ask about a few purchases, which i hadn't made, they cancelled the card on the spot and refunded me the charges.
assbot: Logged on 15-06-2015 15:27:59; pete_dushenski: "We were asked to make dong detection software for LEGO Universe too. We found it to be utterly impossible at any scale.”"
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: lifted cc #s are so routine as to be an automatic writeoff for the bank, unless it was an outlandishly posh cc
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: i have not personally scammed in this particular way, but watched colleagues deal with the fallout of 'xxx bought a house in your name'
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: this is a grave misconception
assbot: Logged on 15-06-2015 15:09:25; pete_dushenski: " When a retired 51-year-old military man disclosed in a U.S. security clearance application that he had a 20-year affair with his former college roommate's wife, it was supposed to remain a secret between him and the government."
assbot: Logged on 15-06-2015 15:17:55; pete_dushenski: "I’m also worried they are going to identify agents in law enforcement." << exactly the plot of 'spy', this.
assbot: Logged on 15-06-2015 15:11:29; pete_dushenski: "The SF 86 form, which is 127-pages long, is extraordinarily comprehensive and intrusive. "
pete_dushenski: ;;later tell ben_vulpes best papamobile is two-seat papamobile ! bold (and beautiful) play !
davout: ;;later tell mircea_popescu pls to x.eur
punkman: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CHe8hHRWIAAG_6z.jpg "Apologies if you've already seen a raccoon riding an alligator today."
trinque: funkenstein_: things are what they are, though we may be forced to call them otherwise
assbot: Logged on 14-06-2015 17:31:18; mircea_popescu: moreover, there are hard to miss parallels between this entire "saving the state" interventionism of the us coallition
assbot: Logged on 14-06-2015 17:42:25; mircea_popescu: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/0d/57/bd/0d57bd3b61e45343644281ed7d1cca3f.jpg << this
BingoBoingo: !Up gares_
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu http://imgur.com/a/FhZRf
jurov: TANTRIC. ben_vulpes see?
mircea_popescu: aaannnnd in other news, http://38.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mabpbcSKvW1rem3mwo1_500.gif
funkenstein_: !up yhwh_
punkman: !up gares_
funkenstein_: ben_vulpes, it's sudo apt-get turtles-dev all the way down
BingoBoingo: ;;later tell pete_dushenski startup spacing issue corrected. Distinct hazard of staing into the idiocy is contact transmission of derp.
asciilifeform pictures ben_vulpes doing http://funnyrussians.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/povozka_1.jpg.crop_display.jpg
asciilifeform: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4e/Colonel_Blimp_cartoon.png << as seen here.
assbot: Logged on 14-06-2015 17:37:25; mircea_popescu: the same problem existed with the blips.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: what is that
ben_vulpes: ;;later tell pete_dushenski http://imgur.com/pE2zQPQ
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: incidentally most u.s. 'soda' machines have card slots now.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the only way he might consider it is if it were a ~bounded~ negative
asciilifeform: i.e., if some bozo announces the box, no one plays, but if mircea_popescu does - possible
asciilifeform: and so more or less what mircea_popescu said
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu who was that fella a while back who wanted to set up a btc-denominated market for reverse-engineered/leaked specs? (think, easily verifiable...!) and did it go anywhere ?
assbot: Logged on 14-06-2015 05:16:21; scoopbot_revived: Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Hits An All Time High http://qntra.net/2015/06/bitcoin-mining-difficulty-hits-an-all-time-high/
copypaste: hi mircea_popescu
mircea_popescu: SELECT sum( length( post_content ) ) WHERE post_status = "publish"
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 1.44 like normal people
assbot: Logged on 13-06-2015 22:47:02; cazalla: oh god https://twitter.com/Blockchain_Memo/status/607955408360218624
assbot: Logged on 13-06-2015 22:32:08; pete_dushenski: for ethereum posterity : http://www.contravex.com/2014/07/23/a-guide-to-buying-5000-ether-bitcoin-2-5x-more-than-ethereums-genesis-sale/#comment-20369
assbot: Logged on 13-06-2015 22:26:32; pete_dushenski: 1) gpg version omitted, 2) revocation certification auto-generated, 3) auto-encrypt drafts, 4) warning message for idiots like travis patron that they're about to send an unencrypted reply to an encrypted message
cazalla: oh god https://twitter.com/Blockchain_Memo/status/607955408360218624 ☟︎
cazalla: they tried their best pete_dushenski, is that not good enough for you?!
assbot: first_steps_in_bitcoin-assets [bitcoin assets wiki] ... ( http://bit.ly/1I5SsCt )
funkenstein_: http://wiki.bitcoin-assets.com/first_steps_in_bitcoin-assets
asciilifeform: http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/_niece/3991032/81266/81266_original.jpg << empress maria theresa whipping her childrenz.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: good question. do you remember what u. eco said when asked how many of the books in his library he has read ?
assbot: Logged on 23-06-2014 00:11:01; mircea_popescu: After seven years of the new regime, I had the opportunity to compare the class of 1999 with the class of 1992. In 1992 I set an course in Artificial Intelligence requiring students to solve six exercises, including building a Prolog interpreter. In 1999, six exercises had shrunk to one; which was a 12 line Prolog program for which eight weeks were allotted for students to write it. A special class
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: footnote 2 is a winner
Naphex: mircea_popescu: try chrome, only tested in chrome atm
Naphex: mircea_popescu: a lot more to clean up and annoying js bugs around but yeha went fine:D
Naphex: mircea_popescu: https://xotika.tv/#/channel-19/Sonia
Naphex: mircea_popescu: the first link went in pause try the browse channel
Naphex: mircea_popescu: javascript and flash required so fire up the lowly ones:P
asciilifeform: convo with pet: 'her: why have you not opened mircea_popescu's champagne? me: it is for victory. her: and if you are defeated: me: enemy can drink it then'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: believe or not, i once read a (ru) ph.d. dissertation on this subject.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: only suspected from the geometry. it's more or less exactly like i imagined it would look like.
assbot: Logged on 26-10-2014 05:49:56; mircea_popescu: i suppose that's the ultimate girl toilet, what is all this "lift the seat, lower the seat" bs.
asciilifeform: http://i.imgur.com/TLvwKz1.png << mysterious object i saw in a movie. wonder if mircea_popescu can identify.
menahem: hey mircea_popescu, what is your backup plan? in the event someone like the USG ..tries.. to pwn you? mpex, coins, etc?
asciilifeform: or pete_dushenski's
asciilifeform: iirc mircea_popescu has sister ?
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: it's on a box mircea_popescu supplied, subcontracted from some orc
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://dpaste.com/1B9S7EG.txt
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: apparently rewrite using something other than sqlite seems inevitable. db is getting abominably slow.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: key pump is back on, using somewhat faster proggy
kakobrekla: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=13-06-2015#1163165 < many lulz https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/39mhko/does_eth_intend_to_release_financial_statements/cs4u4im ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 06-06-2015 18:55:43; ascii_modem: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=06-06-2015#1156199 << -if- you know how. otherwise it's a waste of precious and entirely nonrenewable resource (model m)
asciilifeform: http://deskthority.net/wiki/Beam_spring << more
decimation: asciilifeform: this guy sells controllers http://www.ebay.com/itm/Original-IBM-4704-Banking-System-Keyboard-TESTED-107-Key-Model-F-6020218-/281689692136?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item41960397e8
decimation: mircea_popescu: how do you think they will be described by chinese historians 1000 years from now?
assbot: Logged on 12-06-2015 23:34:43; mircea_popescu: danielpbarron information-wise steep ?
decimation: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/chinese-hack-of-government-network-compromises-security-clearance-files/2015/06/12/9f91f146-1135-11e5-9726-49d6fa26a8c6_story.html < sucks for usg employees
mike_c: mircea_popescu: that one isn't ringing a bell, but it looks fun :)
mircea_popescu: http://sd4.eu/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/1352440858_screen.png << this one's for mike_c
asciilifeform: what keyboard mircea_popescu has, 'unicomp' ? i know of no other that has springs but can still be described as 'disposable'
mircea_popescu: http://www.homecomputer.de/pages/easteurope_ro.html#amic < there
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=622 << yours ?
asciilifeform: p. 6 of the report is hilariously mistaken. ussr produced perfectly adequate hdd for the period. we had one: http://www.retro-pc.net/musei/dd/hdd/index_ru.htm (scroll to middle past the japanese unit)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: jp got paid in, iirc, gold.
asciilifeform: http://www.foia.cia.gov/sites/default/files/document_conversions/89801/DOC_0000500644.pdf << from horse's mouth. scan of ancient usg memo detailing 'omg111!!!111! they stole it all'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i haven't a clue whether hearn is the actual author of the hearnias in question, or not. only that the particular boobytrap which he misrepresents as 'bitcoin' is a more subtle one.
assbot: Logged on 12-06-2015 22:28:57; trinque: ascii_field: thanks for the link to pcengines; very interesting to me for a variety of uses
assbot: Logged on 12-06-2015 23:44:37; trinque: http://m.phys.org/_news353350213.html
mircea_popescu: mike_c it should be possible tho.
trinque: http://m.phys.org/_news353350213.html ☟︎☟︎
trinque: ascii_field: thanks for the link to pcengines; very interesting to me for a variety of uses ☟︎