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mircea_popescu: “No, sir, not crazy” said
the maitre d’, “We are a bilingual city.”
mircea_popescu: “I used
the faucet for cold and
the hottest water came out.”
mircea_popescu: Guy eating in an elegant restaurant in Montreal leaves his
table
to use
the men’s room and comes out screaming.
mircea_popescu: “Hacker’s cannot usually upload information
to a website,
mircea_popescu: back in
the day a man became eligible for marriage once he could fix his own fucking cart.
mircea_popescu: if you need
the admin
to fix your computer you may not use one.
mircea_popescu: you have
to be completely broken i nthe head
to imagine
there is such a
thing as a legitimate rat.
mircea_popescu: The White Hat RAT – A legitimate network administrator needs
to quickly perform updates or solve problems for numerous users, so he has a legitimate reasons
to install a remote administration
tool on all of
the systems under his supervision.
This would allow him
to make changes and/or catch people going against
the companies computer use policy for all of
the users without leaving his desk.
mircea_popescu: i mean " multi-MB nsa
turd in lua" shoud have read "the lua in
the multi-MB nsa
turd"
Jere_Jones: It isn't a matter of needing
to be non-compliant. It would be a matter of not needing
to be compliant.
mircea_popescu: mike_c none. but im just saying practically, people do what
they do.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so
the lua relation seems merely happenstance
mike_c: hm, well, can you provide an example of a reason you would need
to not be compliant?
mircea_popescu: first fucking
thing. "You can choose
to make your Web service compliant or non-compliant, depending on your needs."
mike_c: i would say any website service
that uses soap
to communicate.
mircea_popescu: i mean in some sort of application with some other function or destination
than showcasing xml
mircea_popescu: mike_c do you know of any implementation of xml
that is actually not xml-ish ?
mike_c: i hope eulora isn't rolling its own xml encoder/decoder.
that sounds painful.
mircea_popescu: seeing how most everything
that actually works is actually c
mircea_popescu: Jere_Jones
the kids don't seem
to, which means you'll probably have your work cut out for you until you fall over
mircea_popescu: or just
try
to live with
the idiocy of nonsensical xml horror.
mircea_popescu: i'm still waffly whether
the entire
thing should be
torn out and re-written (which you know, 16th standard problem as well as joel's netscape objections)
mircea_popescu: there are some ad-hoc scripting
things we're fighting with atm
Jere_Jones: mircea_popescu And
THAT is a beautiful language.
davout: mircea_popescu: well
that's kind of like mpex, "here are
the rules; like it or not, but its how
this
thing works"
mircea_popescu: ppl spent half a day debugging bizarre eulora errors only
to discover
the name of a variable happened
to be a language construct and
those you have
to quote a CERTAIN way
davout: classes, functions, w/e
they're all objects!
davout: nah, i
think it's named sapphire or sthg
davout: it would be so cool
to have a consistent language where everything is an object
that you call methods on
mircea_popescu: Including a file dumps its variables into
the current function’s scope (and gives
the file access
to your variables), but dumps functions and classes into global scope.
benkay: now it's "they're just moving
too much money. you're not allowed
to move more
than 30K without our permission."
davout: computors, who would've
thought in 1900
that janitors would be humans in 2000 and computors machines
mircea_popescu: another court said stfu and pay or else we
take your computors
mircea_popescu: the station sued
the agency.
the court ordered
the agency stfu and pay
the stations' lawyers
mircea_popescu: a state agency created
to herpderp about us crapola fined a popular
tv station for saying nigger or some such shit.
benkay: mircea_popescu:
that's
the point. avoiding "all of
those
things" is an impossible
task.
ThickAsThieves: are bitcoin exchanges going
to even be legal next year?
mircea_popescu: i don't
think any government in
the world gets so badly raped in
the courts as
the romanian one.
mircea_popescu: (really, it doesn't want rich foreigners coming in scooping
their shit country for cheap)
davout: in other words, if you use
the law
to your advantage
too much, govt gets
to fuck you
mircea_popescu: the people who
told
them
to fuck off got
to get away with it.
mircea_popescu: the next year
the
tax code was altered mid exercise, and
to be applied from
the beginning of
the exercise.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves i can do you one better : romania passed an organic law saying
that
the
tax code can not be altered mid exercise
mod6: You pull out
the hammer, but
to your dismay, it has
the claw part on both sides. << lmao
ThickAsThieves: "we learn
that Italy has just ordered banks
to withhold a 20%
tax on all inbound wire
transfers: a decree which on
to of everything will apply retroactively
to February 1" i missed
the retro part initially ... wtf?
pankkake: it's actually a good resource if you want
to *learn* php
benkay: but if you just avoid all
those
things you can write rock-solid code, mircea_popescu.
mircea_popescu: nondeterministic; it depends on
the order in which
the sort algorithm happens
to compare elements.
mircea_popescu: jurov here's
the funny math on
the
topic : he could identify davout in his logs.
mircea_popescu: i suppose
this is what is meant by
the beetleman metaphore.
davout: benkay: denies at
the same
time, anyway
benkay: what's better is his response
to davout saying "hey squatter"
mircea_popescu: i may be in my slow mode, but i dont follow
teh implicashionz.
davout: mircea_popescu: i
told
the owner,
the kangasbros guy
that bitcoincentral.com redirected
to localbitcoins.com, a minutes after it gives me a blank page and starts working again as soon as i change IP
ThickAsThieves: <mircea_popescu> hello multifacepalming logreader people. your facepalms have been foretold. /// as a mostly not programmer
this aint so bad so far!
mircea_popescu: there you go person : someone resurected
the kraken harnett & co shat all over in 2012.
mircea_popescu: who was arguing for
the good idea=ness of using dead brands ?
davout: somehow,
two minutes after i
tell lb owner about it my ip gets blocked, and
the domain only works from my cell disconnected from wifi
kakobrekla: they also squated
that much worth of domains
davout: check-out
this faggotry, visit
the link bitcoincentral.com
mircea_popescu: basically it's a site
to meet federal agents posing as people who are
trying
to buy bitcoins
to pay for stolen cards, rite ?
davout: i don't, know, isn't
that
their business model?