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TheNewDeal: mircea_popescu I've been trying to find a list of premine / scamcoins that you provided in the past. It was in a wikipedia format. Can't find it in the logs
mircea_popescu: pankkake, the "if both your house and your bank burn down you don't care" theory is pure nonsense.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell bitcoinpete "He fleeced -assette extraordinaire kakobrekla for 145 BTC" doesn't seem an accurate rendition. iirc usagi sold pirate insurance, which he paid up on.
mircea_popescu: <TheNewDeal> mp actually helped design that? didn't know he had that know-how << i'm really good at piggybacking on people's work.
asciilifeform: (if you can't see how, think for a minute)
asciilifeform: card sorter - so you don't have to kill the fellow who dropped a deck.
TheNewDeal: oh my gosh, just talked to t his electrician the other day that told me he used to do maintenance on card sorters, like IBM's 074. Just thought I'd toss that in on the topic of old hardware
TheNewDeal: mp actually helped design that? didn't know he had that know-how
asciilifeform: just as not all things which aren't poisonous are good to eat for dinner
asciilifeform: decimation: i'll helpfully point out where this line of thought ends: if you can't re-create the device in its entirety from the published docs, it isn't worth using.
asciilifeform: decimation: if it did, i'da bought it, and wouldn't be trying to build
decimation: USG doesn't share either: http://www.samm.dsca.mil/loanote/communication-security-comsec-transmission-security-transec-devices-sold-fms-for-integration
gribble: Ne me touche pas - French - English Translation and Examples: <http://mymemory.translated.net/t/French/English/ne%20me%20touche%20pas>; arrete,arrete,ne me touche pas. - YouTube: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcnPxgoZLNw>; PATRICIA CARLI 1963 Arrête, arrête, ne me touche pas... - YouTube: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KI236fMxoY>
decimation: if your crypto wasn't designed to defeat someone who knows everything about how it works, then you are not in the crypto business
asciilifeform: seals don't even keep poor buggers from fucking with electric meters.
asciilifeform: if it's a crypto gizmo and has seal - which i didn't put there - i've no interest in it.
asciilifeform: 'doctor it hurts when i do that. -- don't do that.' ☟︎
asciilifeform: your simulated annealing turd won't converge, you'll sit & curse the gods
asciilifeform: joecool: i don't generate keys on card << still has rng, for signature nonces.
joecool: asciilifeform: i don't generate keys on card for the rng issue, need to upload from laptop, but yeah sure no way to enter pin outside the laptop
asciilifeform: bose is a terrific scam (what spends so much on glossy magazine ads, and isn't ?)
decimation: To be fair I haven't purchased the fancy "pilot quality" headphones made by bose etc.
joecool: can be solved with an amp, i didn't believe sensitive IEM's would be affected till i had a pair with a picky crossover
joecool: asciilifeform: i wasn't talking about hw bitcoin wallet implementations, i was talking about openpgp smartcard implementations
asciilifeform: there's a reason everybody doesn't simply wear rifle range headphones on the plane
asciilifeform: don't knock antiphase headphone till you've tried it. great in airplanes, machine rooms.
mircea_popescu: jurov: someday people with perfect hearing will end up wearing hearing aids with noise suppression << i'll wear assault rifles with noise supression before i do tha.t
decimation: pro tip: when someone is jerking randomly in the water below a "no swimming - danger of electrocution" sign, don't jump in to rescue
mike_c: well, wanted to let you know i updated it a bit. if you look for an ad for a bet that I haven't picked up yet it goes and gets it in real time
joecool: i didn't roll them into usage until i started using multiple systems
benkay: you can do it with just a btc addr, if you don't feel like diving into gpg just yet.
benkay: eventually we're going to get bored, though, and you won't be a new name any more.
pankkake: "I have avoided investing in S.MPOE because I can't figure it out." :)
assbot: Here's why BTCST won't last for one year
benkay: don't do it
chairforce1: i don't think i have
benkay: !t m s.mpoe
benkay: !t m smpoe
benkay: !t h rent
benkay: step 1: don't touch both rails
fluffypony: pankkake: seems to say that now for me as well, it didn't say that on a few pages
dexX7: i don't like scammers, but i do respect hero members. i can only imagine what kind of experience it must be to be involved for a longer time.. (i'm saying this after being an active member for 13+ months)
thestringpuller: why isn't he shutting down and paying niggas back?
fluffypony: such a pity that Bliss Devices didn't get funding
gribble: mike_c was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 20 hours, 3 minutes, and 46 seconds ago: <mike_c> url isn't linked
asciilifeform: 'happy lives the man who has only one leg. one sock won't tear, and he needn't the other boot.' (russian childrens' rhyme)
asciilifeform: these things aren't even 'officially' necessary in the 'civilized' world.
mircea_popescu: major world power, just don't ask for anything.
FabianB: doesn't look dead, 10 days ago
pankkake: couldn't find that in wot
fluffypony: ;;rate usagi -2 Doesn't know how to backup in any way, shape, or form. I'll adjust this rating after he has gone and done an IT-related diploma and has at least the same knowledge as an A+ network technician.
gribble: Error: User doesn't exist in the Rating or GPG databases. User must be GPG-registered to receive ratings.
fluffypony: ;;rate usage -2 Doesn't know how to backup in any way, shape, or form. I'll adjust this rating after he has gone and done an IT-related diploma and has at least the same knowledge as an A+ network technician.
pankkake: well, some of the older scammers aren't in it, or I haven't found them
mircea_popescu: early on everyone wanted to be in otc because everyone wanted to be with the cool kids, and losers a la various washed up stars, antonopule and so forth hadn;t fallen in yet.
mircea_popescu: i suppose today it'd be racist, because omfg cotton pickin' hands ? does that mean black people can;t use computers !??!
mircea_popescu was thinking "should paste it ? nah, it'll bore everyone, older than dirt. nah! ppl still don't know it! nah... yeah!"
fluffypony: entropy isn't a very long word, jurov
fluffypony: my addled brain is not functioning, and Google isn't helping
fluffypony: "Have actually been discussing this very topic with a couple of my friends. Though CS has been around for quite sometime, it's becoming more and more apparent that Kumala doesn't seem to spend a whole lotta time even making sure his sites wallet's are working. Add to this the ridiculous fee's, 0 due-diligence, and serious lack of support we've all agreed that CS's time is limited at best barring some sort of major delta in Kumala's modus
mircea_popescu: !t h amq
mircea_popescu: !t h am1
mircea_popescu: !t h am
mircea_popescu: $t h am
mircea_popescu: i guess i don't need coffee today, my bp will be back to normal levels after sundown
FabianB: mircea_popescu: don't have an ipad, but press the game for a few seconds, it'll show an x to delete
xmj: Freedom - I won't
mircea_popescu: so there you have your answer : by their own misguided belief that they can make calls and don't need to obey strangers/
jurov: fluffypony: okay, as long as it isn't rapeghost
fluffypony: I come back as fluffyghost if ZNC can't secure my nick, for instance
benkay: owie - haven't really recovered from that btc rally, eh theyear20* ?
benkay: !t h rent
BingoBoingo: !t h AM1
benkay: maybe diff doesn't actually fall, but the rate of increase in diff per time maybe does.
BingoBoingo: Similar, but I haven't like an apple os since a/ux or OS 7.01
BingoBoingo: benkay: Isn't haskel really just the C# of Lisp?
benkay: i've been considering trying xmonad for window mgmt, but i don't actually want to spend more time farting around with more distractions atm
decimation: https://www.nsfwcorp.com/dispatch/all-the-creeps-are-cheering/ USG & friends don't look kindly on the actual humans in Congo trying to do something about their situation
decimation: The USG doesn't take kindly to buying "conflict minerals"
BingoBoingo: Well, you can't put a Lenovo chip that refuses to target the forbidden city in a Tomohawk missile...
decimation: The interviewer didn't ask why you can't make a baby in 1 month with 9 women
decimation: there is an amusing moment when the interviewer asks "why don't you put your spice on a server for remote users" and he went on a rant about how that would not be benficial
decimation: lol surely the calculator division isn't what's supporting TI these days
BingoBoingo: decimation: The problem many electronics manufacturers have is they can't pull a Texas instruments and marginally increment their cash cows twice a decade
decimation: "Motorola's intention was to offset the inherently higher cost of manufacturing in the US, compared with places like China, by being able to get handsets to customers quicker, and manage the Moto Maker customization process on home turf. But, despite churning out 100,000 Moto Xs a week at one point and progressively making the handset cheaper, the 'born in the USA' vision hasn't paid dividends."
benkay: i ain't nearly so cool
benkay: "if he does eventually find out you went to Yale, he will be offended that you have judged him incapable of gracefully handling that fact." i mean probably he couldn't have
BingoBoingo: So apparently XFCE is supposed to have a theme called "stellar" which replicates the characteristics of CDE on Solaris. I can't seem to find it.
BingoBoingo: Pretty sure this is a cue that your frat isn't worth it http://gawker.com/14-bros-charged-in-fraternity-hazing-that-cost-a-pledge-1583983163
benkay: pf nm i don't know why your handle struck me as unfamiliar
BingoBoingo: !t m f.mpif
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: note that the potting didn't save the gizmo: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rnc1/descrack/attack.html
mike_c: url isn't linked
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Yeah, it's always interesting when you can't trust your input devices's controllers.
assbot: What does GCHQ know about our devices that we don't? | Privacy International
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: if you dredge up an sgi, don't even think about running the traditional 'irix' - swiss cheese.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i can't recommend the pa-risc boxes - on account of their rarity, virtually nothing (save the satanic native os) runs 100% of the hardware.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: correct. anyone who thinks the aus. gov. can't order the gizmo online like anybody else, should buy my bridge.
BingoBoingo: moiety: You didn't even have to wait sex weeks for the flat!
fluffypony: in fact I'd quite like to so I don't go mad