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mircea_popescu: jurov there's a record of floods actually happening in the past.
moiety: imgur is still keeping this gold crackhead from me :/
asciilifeform: jurov: in this case fbi is doing its actual job well, for a change. (read: padding the pockets of contractors. here, the ones who'll be making mandatory 'fly by camera' widgets.)
jurov: you just are hell bent on making fun of fbi, even if they do something that may make sense eventually
asciilifeform: moiety: and i sometimes have occasion to work with modestly large lasers. hence some clue.
mircea_popescu: provided it's friday on a february the 29th
mircea_popescu: whoia look at that! if every man woman and child on planet earth was a prepubescent boy with a laser spending all their time 1km away from lax
asciilifeform: moiety: i like incandescent bulbs, too, sure.
jborkl: Mp, the calls on the site are priced at .1 and the puts are still priced at 1.0, so there is a typo in this month puts
mircea_popescu: whoa look at that!
asciilifeform: (and target, back to you...)
moiety: ijust cant visualise even getting a pilots face from ground level from that distance
mircea_popescu: whoa look at that! the surface of a hemisphere 1km away is like... 6.3 mn sq meters!
asciilifeform: green laser, rayleigh scattering, you can 'walk' the beam to the target.
mircea_popescu: one kilometer around the airport is all parking lots
moiety: but how are these pubescents getting close enough to the planes
mircea_popescu: yeah, gets burned on their retinas
jurov: oh, are they flashing child porn to pilots?
mircea_popescu: "o, horrible things are happening somewhere maybe"
mircea_popescu: jurov sounds to me like a rehash of the child porn thing.
asciilifeform: likewise, slightly-intelligent bureaucrats perhaps wake up at night from the fact that you can untraceably torch just about anything with a fiddybuck IR laser.
asciilifeform: u.s. mouthpieces have been peddling this crap for some years.
jurov: if the scare is about mid-air laser attacks, indeed
asciilifeform: 'no pilots were harmed' 'in the making of this movie.'
asciilifeform: everyone is missing the point. the entire 'problem' is fictional. the fiction, created for a purpose.
mircea_popescu: yes, the laser does. light has this property called refraction
jurov: it concerns takeoff and landing
jurov: noone gives a fuck about thousands of feet
moiety: why do you think they get paid so highly?
mircea_popescu: because if you imagine you're hitting a ten yard plane from five thousand feet deep in an ocean of air with a fucking handheld laser you're nuts.
jurov: yep, poor pilots have to catch red dots and crashing airplanes
mircea_popescu: you ever tried to shoot a fish ?
mircea_popescu: dude, you mean in the same room ?
jurov: and that's just puny pointer for presentations
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mircea_popescu: jurov the pilot is what, losing his change on the floor of the plane which is transparent ?
jurov: to pilot, not to airplane
asciilifeform: (cui bono? the folks who will be selling the soon-to-be-mandatory fly-by-camera gear, when it gets retrofitted into passenger jets.)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform srsly, seems more like a ploy to give your buddy 10k, because i can't for the life of me grok what exact damage can you do to an airplane with a ground laser.
mircea_popescu: anyway, everyone, thank you for your leadership in this important matter.
mircea_popescu: public laundering of nude terrorists for money.
asciilifeform: nude terrorism, public laundering, nude money.
moiety: new challenge im off to vanitygen
mircea_popescu: child laundery, money liking and going to the park
mircea_popescu: no wait, that's not rigth either
mircea_popescu: wait i mean, public terrorism, money nudity and laundry.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform terrorism, public nudity and money laundering.
asciilifeform: 'owns laser pointer. off to jail'
asciilifeform: one obvious question: how does one convict the offender?
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moiety: but but half the procrastination also
mircea_popescu: so you should be thankful, half the crap.
moiety: if they introduce inblots everywhere though, internet will be halved forme
moiety: oh i forgot about that film!!
mircea_popescu: a, that's ok, i don't even use blogger.
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moiety: bad news is life is about to get even more irritating http://arstechnica.com/science/2014/02/first-there-were-captchas-now-there-are-gotchas/
moiety: mircea_popescu: I'm 29... marriage would be good news. [ignores the murderer bit]
mircea_popescu: moiety so what's the bad news ? you got married to an axe murderer ?
mircea_popescu: pankkake it gets worse every time.
pankkake: worse than I rememberd
pankkake: 666 ATC bounty for the pic
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i'm not the only fellow who likes playing games:
moiety: oh no, i didn't realise there was actually someone sprayed!! will google
mircea_popescu: moiety you seen the pic of the gold painted cokehead ?
moiety: no i meant the unfortunate chick bit
jurov: ok, send atc donations to 1LcE3DQSosBv3HNYGTmCQLGnKgFhchCe8j
pankkake: so you found the pic? I couldn't
mircea_popescu: moiety that unfortunate chick... god help her.
jurov: butbutbut...i'm running a full node... helping the network
moiety: you cannot deny they look better
pankkake: tat did the logo, that's half the value of the coin at least
mircea_popescu: just like in BTC i'm the only one doing shit, everyone else is buying bentleys and spraypainting crackheads in gold paint.
mircea_popescu: being THE ONLY ONE to do so hint hint nudge nudge.
pankkake: now that altcoin have value, the faucet dried up?
jurov: wasn't there a faucet?
jurov: Apocalyptic: and you aren't going to support atc?
mircea_popescu: lol i noticed you like that.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it contains a warehouse of bugs because it was built by joe out of toothpicks and chewing gum
mike_c: psh, and i conjecture the sky is blue.
asciilifeform: kept around for just this purpose.
asciilifeform: i conjecture that bitcoind contains a reliable 'warehouse' of otherwise-harmless bugs like the recent one.
pankkake: https://openex.pw/index.php?page=trade&market=111 anyone tried it?
mike_c: nethash was 240 ghs by our meager estimates earlier today
asciilifeform: (perhaps he'll patch the damn thing with his own hands. but others, less able, will not. and will go where the phoundation pushes them.)
asciilifeform: the ddos crap is a pill against folks like MP, who have declared that they'll stick with ancient versions of bitcoind.
asciilifeform: they're not unconstrained actors. they still need a story to explain why the 'official' src is to change.
asciilifeform: a warm hug to the inquisitor reading this.
jurov: such thing really works in ussr-style dictatorships where there is no way out
jurov: oh yes there we are again
asciilifeform: that certain players in the field favour.
asciilifeform: there is also the very persuasive 'paid in your family staying alive' business model
jurov: i don't see any motivation why would they turn to such shenanigans
jurov: i just think coders capable to do such can get paid amply by legitimate businesses
asciilifeform: jurov: perhaps they have new help.
jurov: asciilifeform: it's indeed beyond them. if they were truly scammy, they would have done something simple like stealthcoin
asciilifeform: also to zap the die-hards still using old versions.
asciilifeform: but to set precedent for introducing 'features' and fixes to non-existent problems
asciilifeform: (probably beyond their feeble muscles)
mike_c: aren't all the btc foundation devs in jail by now?