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asciilifeform: it is still interesting that most cities have no ready means of going from 'crowd sees a human in the pit' to 'trains stop'
ThickAsThieves: you only put the panels in exposed areas to public,
asciilifeform: ThickAsThieves: ever actually been to a subway station? there's probably a man's weight of dead vermin, garbage, etc. per square meter.
dub: presumably the lasers are cheaper
asciilifeform: what if he broke his neck falling? tough luck
ThickAsThieves: what if he cant make it to the knob?
asciilifeform: twist'n'press knob, same kind found on industrial tools
asciilifeform: no, the victim pushes.
dub: most wont look up from their ipad
dub: we know that humans are unlikely to hit the button unless its someone they care about on the tracks
asciilifeform: why no one simply puts fire alarm-style switches on the track bed wall, is beyond me.
asciilifeform: afaik in some countries they have expensive retractable cages between the tracks and the waiting area
ThickAsThieves: dont newer terminals now have a wall between tracks and waiting area?
ThickAsThieves: our make the tracks bouncey
asciilifeform: hell, put then on the track bed.
ThickAsThieves: save everyone the trouble
ozbot: NYC testing lasers that detect when people fall onto subway tracks | The Verge
ThickAsThieves: why the squeeze on sriracha dude?
ozbot: Sriracha shipments stopped until mid-January by health department | The Verge
ozbot: The NSA is Coming to Town - YouTube
asciilifeform: someone could make good money selling a means of melting a glass rod over a (recessed) screw head and then breaking it.
asciilifeform: i believe the ancient greeks used something similar, with a broken clay pot ☟︎
asciilifeform: two spies meet, and match up the pieces
asciilifeform: recall the rifle shell sawed in half from ww2 partizan movies
asciilifeform: (short version: seals that one buys from somewhere are of strictly ceremonial value.)
asciilifeform: actually, that's the wrong link
thestringpuller: im on a terminal, what's the abstract?
thestringpuller: and it's secure in that sense
jurov: i have seen only trezor prototype board, to be delivered in 2 weeks
asciilifeform: why not put some 'scotch' tape over it.
asciilifeform: from a warehouse with 10,000 of them.
asciilifeform: a hologram that you buy, right.
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: some people will put a hologram over the private key space on paper wallets to "secure" them
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: holograms? i thought most 'paper wallets' are simply strips of paper crammed into 'arse safes'
thestringpuller: yet that's what most paperwallets use
asciilifeform: casascius just begs to be pwned
thestringpuller: just like the exploit with the casascius coin at defcon
thestringpuller: i'd buy one just to see that
thestringpuller: people who own mac with OS X can go their whole lives owning the machine and not knowing there is a terminal
thestringpuller: and don't know they can checkout the sourcecode
mircea_popescu: it may amount to less than 1% btc in circulation, but still.
mircea_popescu: you may not be aware of this, but 90% of the people owning ANY bitcoin actually do not have any idea what it is they own.
asciilifeform: presumably this includes the signature nonces?
asciilifeform: 'Now the Trezor is fully deterministic device...'
jurov: slush's take on the prng
asciilifeform: but these will be readable to the attached machine.
asciilifeform: though i suppose you could write arbitrary files to the slate.
asciilifeform: but the stats suggest it.
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: we don't know this as an established fact
thestringpuller: looks like the cardano will be more secure if used as a wallet than the trezor...
thestringpuller: and they call it secure?
thestringpuller: the trezor only uses PRNG?
BingoBoingo: The greatest complaint some people have about their fellow man is that they are worthless waterbags interfering with the television signal
asciilifeform: the leper's bell rings. you can only get results like this if you whiten with PRNG.
asciilifeform: then the 'copehagen' QM people finally succeed in resurrecting Vitalism and making the crock of shit mandatory for physics students!
asciilifeform: or about the same time
asciilifeform: i kept waiting and waiting for the modern internet crackpot community to pick up 'scalar waves!' and 'torsional waves' crap from the '90s
asciilifeform: "For the love of God, Montrezor!"
TomServo: asciilifeform: curious of your thoughts on this: http://arxiv.org/abs/1312.1148v2
asciilifeform: phun phact: 'trezor' machine uses vendor's on-chip TRNG.
asciilifeform: but it was hyped as 'cpu of the phootoor!' in the '90s.
asciilifeform: (who wants to build an electron spin-valve machine? don't forget to market it as 'derp.')
asciilifeform: some costing just a dollar or two. but they won't make you rich.
asciilifeform: many consumer widgets do indeed come with silicon that computes sha hash
asciilifeform: the 'mobile phone miner' thing (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=358242.0) is based on an easy mistake
asciilifeform: anybody notice how quickly the discussion of 'where the hell do you get entropy on a VPS' began and ended?
asciilifeform: 'This week a cluster of VPS that i have been using... ...has been compromised.'
mircea_popescu: god that fake dt ipo
Bugpowder: I hear teppy moved some of his stack
mircea_popescu: or not, i guess. all the same.
mircea_popescu: but all's good, one day they eventualyl find irc etc.
mircea_popescu: Bugpowder alternatively, second market is persevering in this "we shall ignore the market and expect to matter".
ozbot: Bitcoin to Cash Hacked
Bugpowder: I was surprised by that fidelity thing that it hadn't driven the market up higher…. guess we know why. One person did it and Second Market oversold it.
benkay: it was either that or find themselves seriously in the hole ten years from now due to not actually buying the underlying.
asciilifeform: history, rather than fantastics.
asciilifeform: in the '90s ussr, it transitioned from paper to 'other.'
Bugpowder: not bug out fantasy terms
Bugpowder: sorry, I think it reality terms.
asciilifeform: at some point it will be cheaper to pay a paramilitary squad to defend you than to pay the paper 'owner.'
Bugpowder: heheh, I don't care about that market.
asciilifeform: when the mechanisms used to keep the tens of 1000s of empty foreclosed boxes empty collapse.
Bugpowder: that is going to put a damper on the housing buble.
Bugpowder: up to 4.5%
asciilifeform: use a consumer 'security camera' xyz gimball for the turret.
mircea_popescu: we should throw some coins in a jar
asciilifeform: 'don't click until you see the whites of their eyes.'
benkay: and assume straight line bolt trajectory?
benkay: asciilifeform: but on a turret and with some ml
asciilifeform: benkay: this one? http://www.atarn.org/chinese/rept_xbow.htm
benkay: constructs a 3d model of its environment and self trains to put a bolt through any xyz triple
mircea_popescu: benkay well that sucks.
asciilifeform: the hard part, as always, isn't the plane/boat ticket, but the destination. most of south america was wide open to ww2 refugees; few went.
benkay: generally. sales is kinda high-touch it turns out!
mircea_popescu: and you talk to them in person ?
benkay: the biz network that i leverage for work is in the us
mircea_popescu: what's this, porn programming ?
mircea_popescu: you can only code from inside the us ?!
benkay: mircea_popescu: i don't have the luxury to let my money make more money
the20year: I'm sure a good deal of it was in the stutenland and danzid corridor