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decimation: did eliminating the PS/2 ports really save anyone any money? I don't get it
decimation: I wish someone would explain why my hard drive, mouse, keyboard and printer all must use the same I/O bus
asciilifeform: at any rate, i've worked with gadgets that would not play with any available converter.
decimation: not the case
asciilifeform: (if you have a widget that wants hardware flow control, you're generally SOL with the converter)
Vexual: me too
decimation: one would think the drivers would be somewhat standard
decimation: I've spent hours trying to get random usb-232 converters working
TomServo_: Vexual: Not easily from my experience. Although there are USB to RS-232 converters to be had.
asciilifeform: 'we put shit in the shit so you can eat shit while you eat shit' (tpm)
decimation: and then have that TPM inside a TPM
decimation: ascii maybe we can boot bios out of a TPM
asciilifeform: or lpt, where there is no protocol to speak of, only a bunch of wires with controllable logic high/low.
asciilifeform: vs. something like rs-232, which can be described to a child on a napkin.
asciilifeform: it's a refinement of their earlier 'adb'
asciilifeform: paradoxically, i/o was much easier (from designer's point of view) in those days.
Vexual: i/o wasnt meant to be easy
Vexual: plugging in a printer in the old days with things turned on occasionally fried motherboards
Vexual: i like how you can ruin shit pugging them in
asciilifeform: bottom two photos: ad-hoc reader
asciilifeform: (top left of 2nd shot, with electrical tape over window)
asciilifeform: little bugger on the bottom-right of 1st shot is eprom
asciilifeform: if you need to read/write old roms, consult arcade machine enthusiasts
asciilifeform: (rather than the 12v or so 'erase' rail that was once needed)
asciilifeform: and finally, modern 'flash', which is really an eeprom that operates on ordinary logic voltage
asciilifeform: in late '80s, EPROM (erasable), programmed by removing and baking under uv light to erase, and writing in a gadget built for the purpose
asciilifeform: e.g. the mask ROMs found in most 1980s hardware
asciilifeform: Vexual: those used to be standard.
Vexual: is there such thing as a write once bios?
Vexual: titties on the boot screen, thats as advanced as i get
asciilifeform: Vexual: they're mighty big, if you ask me
Vexual: to the atc trader, it seems r3wt saved my pittance from satoshis locker, so I will be trading again on both exchanges
Vexual: if they get back, some will make some coin and be happy, like that fat french chep emerging from his kitchen 3 hours later with your roast duck
mike_c: gox back over 100! to the moon!
Vexual: @150 they may have executed self insurance
Vexual: the lack of breakfast egg down the fron't of his magical tshirt is cause for suspicion
Namworld: This is great. We're not at like x10 the price of 1.5 year ago.
MisterE: gonna go so low and I;m a buy them all
MisterE: Trollbox is poppin today
MisterE: plus Japanese lie about everything for a long time before you get the real story
MisterE: I'm glad they failed like a cancer fallen off
Namworld: I could bounce the price back to 900 by closing the short.
Namworld: Should have put a 100 BTC short with x100 leverage as soon as bad news hit... if only there was a place to do that.
kakobrekla: but what does this achieve
kakobrekla: on top of everything
kakobrekla: dunno where these coins are comming from
ThickAsThieves: to the core!
kakobrekla: too bad it wont go to 0
kakobrekla: look at the css
nubbins`: it saddens me when "exchanges" add things like doge
Namworld: nice as in, let the mythical creatures (kraken, doge, etc) stick together.
kakobrekla: also they added fucking dogecoin
kakobrekla: didnt they lauch like last week?
kakobrekla: kraken: Hi Everyone - we are working on a major re-design for the site (no, I don't know when it will come out).
Duffer1_: sure but with money trapped their already it's now a question of what people believe they'll have an easier time withdrawing from gox
kakobrekla: why did people believe <every scam in btcland> could be trusted with funds in the first place
nubbins`: why did people believe gox could be trusted with funds in the first place
kakobrekla: no amount of digits is going to gox!
Duffer1_: i mean, why do people believe getting fiat out of Gox will be easier than getting BTC out of gox (thus causing the price of BTC to increase)
kakobrekla: 2 digits going to mtgox?
Duffer1_: why isn't the opposite true?
Namworld: MtGox about to go 2 digits
Bugpowder: They question is not "to buy or not to buy?", rather, "when to buy?"
r3wt: ;;later tell Vexual i imported that private key. lets arrange a time to chat
nubbins`: just type ;;later tell vexual <message>
r3wt: i'm still a nub and not familiar with all the commands
nubbins`: why not do a ;;later tell vexual :)
r3wt: if you see him, let him know i imported that key finally
pankkake: you can't, unless you see that key used elsewhere or signed by others
nubbins`: tbh, how do they even know if that's your gpg key or not
nubbins`: but they don't give a fuck if you do or not
pankkake: I signed the request with my gpg key for good measure, but…
pankkake: so this is basically a "are you alive" probe
pankkake: the unlocking does not require anything, just ask for it to be unlocked
nubbins`: shame, since there's no trustworthy CAD exchanges
nubbins`: cavirtex is shady as fuck too, tbh
ThickAsThieves: seems more likely this was because the software change made the situation easier this way
nubbins`: just one more odd move in a long string of them
ThickAsThieves: i do think auto-locking accounts is an odd move
ThickAsThieves: or claimed to
ThickAsThieves: not like they have experienc erunning exchanges
ThickAsThieves: i suppose they would quite literally be amateurs, and we all know that already
nubbins`: gotta say, those guys seem more like rank amateurs every day
ThickAsThieves: the shares will be transferred to their mpex
nubbins`: oh, the overview page still says it's going through coinbr
ThickAsThieves: it was only a coinbr thing for the first week
ThickAsThieves: <nubbins`> i wonder are they going to keep the same setup for s.mg (run through a coinbr account) or if they have/will have a direct mpex account /// it already is
nubbins`: fools, they should just blanket +q on join
nubbins`: also, pretty hard to claim that 10btc bounty when the site won't load ;(
nubbins`: i wonder are they going to keep the same setup for s.mg (run through a coinbr account) or if they have/will have a direct mpex account
nubbins`: setting aside this whole "we're locking your account if you don't have 2FA enabled"
asciilifeform: '... Severing ties with the NSA started off with a NSA penalty but was so hugely popular it still got the #1 spot. However, it was quickly given an even bigger penalty, forcing it down the page.'
asciilifeform: '...Anything with "NSA" in the title is penalized and drops off quickly.'
ozbot: Ken Shirriff's blog: Hidden surprises in the Bitcoin blockchain and how they are stored: Nelson Mand
kakobrekla: when did this cherry happen
jurov: no i recall something about mp saying he can't do anything useful and safe with the bitcoins anyway
jurov: yeah, cuz there are millions of mpex accounts
kakobrekla: my brain tends to remember useless things such as that
kakobrekla: iirc twas pulled cause server load or something
kakobrekla: wasnt it ticking all the time?