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nubbins`: useless if you're seated next to a shrieking baby
nubbins`: is a mic and a circuit that precisely inverts the sound coming into the mic
asciilifeform: pankkake: nothing to do with the fan
ThickAsThieves: as a wanna-be audiophile i dont trust noise cancellation not to fuck up the sound anyway
pankkake: also you can control the fan of GPUs easily
jurov`: you just have to pay 100x more for stuff
asciilifeform: nubbins`: naturally you can't decode individual instructions from the buzz - but you can modulate it if desired
jurov`: just demand proper RF compatibility, as used in TV studios
asciilifeform: why? inductor buzz in the power supply circuit
asciilifeform: i have several laptops where i can hear the cpu easily enough
asciilifeform: also you needn't a speaker to produce sound.
pankkake: just listen to merzbow and you'll be safe
asciilifeform: not to mention that you can craft periodic signals that the canceller will actually amplify.
asciilifeform: actually, noise cancellation circuit, given that it emits sound, makes a great side channel.
jurov`: cuz it's expensive to do it right
jurov`: but everyone cheats to meet rf norms
ThickAsThieves: for things like headphones and such
asciilifeform: then, transmitter using... displays.
asciilifeform: and, the grand prize: say the victim owns a fleet of PCs which pick up interference somewhere in the 25-300MHz range.
jurov`: or use modulation that sounds like white noise
asciilifeform: 'click' sound to start counter; next 'click' - value of counter is transmitted word.
asciilifeform: high-res, stable oscillators in modern machines let you pull, say, the following trick:
ozbot: A simple example as to why fiat institutions can’t stand pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
asciilifeform: the phun part is that you needn't use ultrasound.
mircea_popescu: jurov` that part yeah
jurov`: well everyone was "hurr durr aint use ultrasound, there are filters"
mircea_popescu: i used to get my first torrents off tv, yo.
mircea_popescu: well not the kids of today, no.
jurov`: what's the blob gonna do?
jurov`: i'm sticking to my rpi for airgapping purposes
ozbot: Scientist-developed malware prototype covertly jumps air gaps using inaudible sound | Ars Technica
mircea_popescu: i dunno really, i never drink the stuff
pankkake: well, those things will be a goldmine for orthoptists
mircea_popescu: a hey. i thought it's kinda meh
ThickAsThieves: 3D bugs me too, but for some reason it was fine for me during a recent thor viewing
kakobrekla: i just thoguht , .. pair of eyes ...
jurov`: why pair? they make lefthanded version too?
pankkake: well it also must depend on people. I know I am very subject to weird stuff in my eyes. can't do that 3D shit or even images moving randomly
kakobrekla: is there a code i must buy to buy the code?
ThickAsThieves: and you are then part of the Explorer program
kakobrekla: what do you do with the code then
asciilifeform: i own one - http://www.loper-os.org/vintage/paralleleye/eye.html - (1989! and higher res than virtually all modern 'consumer' ones) but 15 minutes, and then headache.
asciilifeform: monocle displays are terrible.
kakobrekla: its not bad, but nothing special so far, maybe the dosage is a bit off
kakobrekla: ok so i just made a cup of this ethiopian coffee you assets scammed me into buying
davout: just put it on when you fuck some bitches to get the NSA guys all hard
pankkake: though I'd like to try the eye thing. and know what optometrists think about it
pankkake: what, having a 24/7 spycam streaming to the NSA?
mircea_popescu: well... this doesn't sound that good on paper, either.
mircea_popescu: this is one of those things that sounds good on paper and then goes nowhere.
kleeck_: "Did you hear? xxKILLERSLUTxx didn't get an invite to the King's Ball!" *GASP!*
kleeck_: I cannot wait until 4Chan picks this up as a target.
kleeck_: I WANT TO BE THE BELL OF THE BALL!
ThickAsThieves: watch the vid
ThickAsThieves: "while traditional MMOs have epic raids, we have extravagant balls"
mircea_popescu: In a sign of the times, whistleblowers who help bust illegal gold shipments can get a bigger reward in India than those who help catch cocaine and heroin smugglers.
gribble: Coinbase BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 1005.72, Best ask: 1028.26, Bid-ask spread: 22.54000, Last trade: 1016.03, 24 hour volume: None, 24 hour low: None, 24 hour high: None, 24 hour vwap: None
gribble: MtGox BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 1090.0, Best ask: 1099.0, Bid-ask spread: 9.00000, Last trade: 1099.0, 24 hour volume: 53856.39443812, 24 hour low: 870.001, 24 hour high: 1240.0, 24 hour vwap: 1079.57079
mircea_popescu: good thinking there. aite.
topace: mircea_popescu: its all in the contracts we signed already
mircea_popescu: topace get a signed statement to that effect, you never know when you need one.
topace: and i questioned the valuation as well
topace: ThickAsThieves is correct, i have nothing to do with underwriting new listings any more
topace: [08:53:31] <Apocalyptic> ThickAsThieves, did topace himself wrote that ?
mircea_popescu: so can i have an m to the a to the n to the booooo-oooobs
mircea_popescu: Few studies have examined a direct causative effect between smoking marijuana and gynecomastia. A report in 1972 made the initial connection between cannabis and gynecomastia.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves kinda circlejerking each other, obviously, but the stuff they have to say...
mircea_popescu: sushi never gets to be yesterday's here.
davout: mircea_popescu: haha i will, you should try yesterdays sushi wrapped in the morning crepes, it does work too
mircea_popescu: o look, the us pot is cooking up.
mircea_popescu: JONATHAN TURLEY: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The danger is quite severe. The problem with what the president is doing is that he's not simply posing a danger to the constitutional system. He's becoming the very danger the Constitution was designed to avoid. That is the concentration of power in every single branch.
mircea_popescu: ests of the American people?
mircea_popescu: REP. BOB GOODLATTE (R-VA): Professor Turley, the constitution, the system of separated powers is not simply about stopping one branch of government from usurping another. It's about protecting the liberty of Americans from the dangers of concentrated government power. How does the president's unilateral modification of act of Congress affect both the balance of power between the political branches and the liberty inter
mircea_popescu: there's a reason mpex is mpex whereas all the labcoins out there consist of people talking tough but then upon on examination peeling away like onion skins
mircea_popescu: people will eventually figure out the importance of being able to talk to the actual guy running the show and making the calls.
ThickAsThieves: but even that document says it can change anything it says at anytime
ThickAsThieves: i dont know who wrote the prospectus though
ThickAsThieves: but thats just a guess too
ThickAsThieves: and that james isnt intimitaly involved other than as dev team for HL
ThickAsThieves: i assume the quote is from the 7C guy
Apocalyptic: ThickAsThieves, did topace himself wrote that ?
ThickAsThieves: but realized i'd be wasting my time
ThickAsThieves: i started to ask him for actual list of assets
ThickAsThieves: then you can be too!
mircea_popescu: whoever wrote that has significant experience as online tech support and no experience as a finance anything.
ThickAsThieves: this in response to me asking for explanation of valuation
ThickAsThieves: "Seventh Company Ltd. evaluation has been made based on previous first and second rounds of investments by Havelock Investments Canadian Bitcoin based Fund Exchange during due diligence process and it is indeed a post-money valuation (not pre-money valuation!). But of course evaluation took into consideration total capital invested in the previous rounds by Angel investors and VC, as
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves can you picture that ?
deadweasel: my server is funny today, so I'm on webchat, trying to get it back up
ThickAsThieves: roughly equal to 13 Sv, more than the fatal dose even with treatment.
ThickAsThieves: There he spread some of it on the cement floor. His six-year-old daughter, Leide das Neves Ferreira, later ate a sandwich while sitting on the floor. She was also fascinated by the blue glow of the powder, and applying it to her body, showed it off to her mother. Dust from the powder fell on the sandwich she was consuming; she eventually absorbed 1.0 GBq, total dose 6.0 Gy, which is
mircea_popescu: in that case, out of hundreds of people exposed four died
mircea_popescu: anyway, the secret is just how tolerant of radiation the human body is.
ThickAsThieves: amazing stuff that crazy even exists
gribble: Goiânia accident - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident>; The Radiological Accident in Goiânia - Publications - International ...: <http://www-pub.iaea.org/mtcd/publications/pdf/pub815_web.pdf>; Goiânia´s Legacy Two Decades On: <http://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/2008/goiania.html>
ThickAsThieves: it's now thought that the two men didn't know what was inside the truck, which was en route to a local storage facility, and only unsealed the material out of curiosity.
mircea_popescu: yeah, they're gonna die.
pankkake: hmm… I hope it's a temporary problem with OVH
deadweasel: i see it too, pankkake
ThickAsThieves: Microsoft labels US government a ‘persistent threat' in plan to cut off NSA spying