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BingoBoingo: Solaris 10 Express and Windows 2K were the only things I found that respected the fact it had a battery back in '04
BingoBoingo: My big problem with my LS always was everything hates the battery
asciilifeform: still got the pieces of a phriend's latitude ls here.
BingoBoingo: ... That IBM is small
BingoBoingo: The thing only lives for sentimental value
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Most people don't. This was my first computer with a color screen. Bought it the summer before starting college.
asciilifeform: libretto is one of two 'netbook' sized machines ever built that isn't a chinese turd
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i don't do vintage for the sake of vintage
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: The part where people pedaling i386 usually lack full support for 30 years worth of i386 hardware.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: That kind of changes the narrative many push when they say i386.
asciilifeform: if you own this box, make sure to use 'i386' kernels rather than 'i686'
asciilifeform: only the last was usable immediately
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: More to the point. How much would I pay to watch divers who though it pure gold...
kakobrekla: BingoBoingo, things which are alike, in nature, grow to look alike
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: how much would you pay to watch gold bullion alloyed with atomic waste and drowned in the ocean?
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: How many OS's did you have to try before finding one that was merely sufficiently code correct with a Pentium MMX to boot at all, on the Libretto?
BingoBoingo: kakobrekla: When Vircurex IPO'd I though Cryptostocks was the afterthought, but nao that scams have nowhere else to list I realize it was always the primary.
asciilifeform: in this case, 'stage magic' being almost literally the explanation, being a case where the audience is enthusiastically cooperating in being fooled
BingoBoingo: kakobrekla: Well Cryptostocks is still a thing after having two years as an irrelevant thing.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: A blow job, for the reciever seems to share many properties of stage magic for an audience.
BingoBoingo: kakobrekla: Lime stone is an ancient alt. First notably used for being the exterior of pyramids. More recently known for being crushed and integrated into prefab concrete panels for the local Walmart.
asciilifeform: 'proof of work' is just a piece of stage magic, to create the appearance of seigniorage-free currency.
asciilifeform: heads neither teleport nor are particularly uncommon
BingoBoingo: Seriously though skull ashtray doesn't improve the taste of the smoking experience Skull coffee cup though...
kakobrekla: BingoBoingo limestone? is that some new alt?
asciilifeform: the notion that proof of work is what gives btc value is mistaken. a btc is in a sense a kind of machine, with useful properties (e.g. teleportation, provable scarcity, etc)
kakobrekla: yeah well proof of work only proofs the work on average
BingoBoingo: Sure, but that doesn't mean I'm going to show it to you.
asciilifeform: everybody who wants a skull ash tray probably has one already.
BingoBoingo: kakobrekla: Depending on definitions 1 year to 7 months late is... Disappointing. Maybe I should start a mining security. Specify what I am mining is limestone. Only offer the IPO on Bitcointalk.
kakobrekla: i dunno, i think gox is as dead as it was, just people realizing it late
BingoBoingo: kakobrekla: Did I miss news. Is there a reason Gox is dying moar this week rather than last?
BingoBoingo: But yes, for things without biological origins proof of destruction may be easier.
asciilifeform: then, reprinted at the u.s. mint
BingoBoingo: I find proof of destruction most interesting in seeing as it offers a parent the chance to literally sell a child's birthright.
asciilifeform: there is, for instance, a legend of an occasion where it was necessary to move several $mil in dollars out of the ussr ☟︎
BingoBoingo: Generally, but some people who preferences which run contrary to norms and resources to entertain those preferences.
asciilifeform: long pork, in modern times, is generally served when short port is in short supply
asciilifeform: i still don't get it, what use are teeth to the buyer
BingoBoingo: Didn't think much of that last night though. I priced how much do I hate dentists versus how much do I love those pliers. Discussions of how much there might be a market of people wanting to buy the teeth be damned
asciilifeform: e.g. 'sd card' tooth (a la cyanide tooth)
asciilifeform: and, while you might relish the thought of cutting pipes with your teeth, there are other uses
asciilifeform: one would need to get them in matched pairs.
asciilifeform: re: carbide tooth: picture what would become of a natural tooth under that crown.
BingoBoingo: What also makes me curious is how someone with Boron Bitride Balls would be able to knock up a bitch.
BingoBoingo: In the eu, chalenge response. In the US impaling. For Asia, africa and Eastern europe probably flip a coin.
asciilifeform: (the merchants get shafted on charge-backs, the banks lose nothing)
asciilifeform: probably the latter - they profit from card skimming fraud
asciilifeform: remaining question is, would banks move to challenge/response silicon cards first, or just focus on hunting down and impaling the hypothetical daring 'dread pirate'
BingoBoingo: Even fiat bankers seem to acknowledge that crypto for transaction signing is safer.
BingoBoingo: Well, bank card numbers were a horrible idea in the first place.
asciilifeform: good chance that 90+% of the data sold will be of stolen cards
BingoBoingo: Well, is death by ants the only remedy being imposed?
asciilifeform: it's a simple, if suicidally dangerous, solution to 'how to teleport fiat'
BingoBoingo: A simple solution to that problems seems to be tasting unpalatable to the ants...
asciilifeform: eventually some fellow with boron nitride balls will open an exchange of writeable bank card #s to/from btc.
BingoBoingo: (Pricing a time for BTC-E's failure is likely harder because their falure mode is probably just running with coins and letting the dollars be damned.)
BingoBoingo: One "exchange is run by people anon enough TradeFartress might be involved, the other by Mark who is so public the world knows his belt size. If Gox needs that premium, still... I'd give it less than two years to live.
BingoBoingo: I imagine the inside of gmaxwell's mouth to be a smooth, wet, and silky place. Perfect for any dick to get sucked.
BingoBoingo: Defintiely better than -dev though where communication seems to consist of raise issue of Criticism or Potential vulnerability, wait, get kick-banned.
BingoBoingo: Most people who need lessons are people who quit too quick
kakobrekla: at least they dont argue with me
BingoBoingo: The arrangement works though
kakobrekla: im the opposite of mp. he ignores half of the channel, i talk to the half that is already gone.
BingoBoingo: Well kakobrekla Nao that everyone knows you silence comings and goings as well as cummings...
kakobrekla: well my otc txes are faceless but yeah
BingoBoingo: Oh, it is amazing how healty the fiat-BTC interface is. Choices consist of 1. AN exchange with no fiat (Gox) 2. Two cans and a string (Stamp) 3. Completely anon operators (BTC-E) or 4. Getting off the fucking couch and actually meeting people.
kakobrekla: whats the command to get the spread between gox and stamp again
BingoBoingo: deanclkclk: I am talking about how your assumption that you need "an exchange site" is the problem here.
deanclkclk: I'm talking about something similar to btc-e BingoBoingo
deanclkclk: how would that work on an exchange site?
BingoBoingo: deanclkclk: i mean... If you want to buy BTC with fiat, fucking let people who you would like to buy from know roughly what geographic area you make yourself available to transact fro.
BingoBoingo: deanclkclk: Well, a reasonable first step might be letting potential counterparties know where would be most convenient for you to transact?
deanclkclk: I'm trying to target traders
deanclkclk: BingoBoingo: yes that's what I am trying to achieve
Namworld: Even if there's a lot of bullshit dealing with individuals
Namworld: and faster than exchanges
Namworld: It's not hard doing in-person transactions
BingoBoingo: deanclkclk: Your problem is the insistence on a totally online exchange of your fiat to BTC
BingoBoingo: Bring a scary looking armed dud with you, encourage your counterparty to do the same, or not
BingoBoingo: Step one: FInd a person with BTC who wants to sell. Step two buy a cheap dufflebag and fillit with USD, silver, gold or some combination of those things. Step 3 consumate a trade.
BingoBoingo: You have a dick to do that with deanclkclk RIght?
BingoBoingo: deanclkclk: If you want to buy BTC which is the proposition you offered as well as what I offered a solution to, what you need to do is find people wholding BTC and buy direct.
deanclkclk: but, my question is ....I"m trying to do an online exchange and wondering how exchange handles egopay to okpay for withdrawals
BingoBoingo: deanclkclk: I dunno what lack of reading comprehension could have lead to that conclusion about myself.
deanclkclk: I hold btc but, I don't want to sell
kakobrekla: ok sorry davout, i hereby exclude you from the described bunch.
BingoBoingo: deanclkclk: Finding someone holding BTC and hope the want to sell
kakobrekla: myeah well who would expect all exchanges to be ran by retarded web devs
deanclkclk: what do you guys think is the easiest way to get USD/EUR to an exchange?
ozbot: We've shut down the buy option at the Bitcoin ATM in Vancouver. : Bitcoin
benkay: "they haven’t used the period of QE to dispose of legacy assets"
kakobrekla: yeah more shit is going down the toilet
kakobrekla: depends how broken the code is
benkay: do they pay for maintenance contracts too?
benkay: man you can make money selling code to scammers and they don't just torrent it instantly?
benkay: 'i'm not a scammer, i just sell tools'
kakobrekla: seems to work.
kakobrekla: liek with that gem thing
benkay: bitvestor.us and makebitcoin that is