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asciilifeform: PeterL: mircea_popescu's original suggestion was to transfer properly random messages, via rsa, continuously, thereby keeping a supply of otp warm on both sides
PeterL: would be better than just reusing the one otp over a bunch of times?
a111: Logged on 2016-08-06 14:22 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what's your call, because the matter is quite acute : is it a safer system to demand 8kb entropy/second and hash 12 times ? or to demand say 128bytes/second and hash 768 times ?
PeterL: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-06#1515904 << idea: transfer random series a and b of length A and B where A and B are co-prime, session key is the series {(a[i%A] XOR b[i%B]) for i in [0, AxB]} ☝︎
mircea_popescu: anyway, by the workings of that thing, if you took out a loan + mortgage to buy a house ; the house did go on to be owned by X, but you kept the mortgage.
mircea_popescu: otherwise, bucharest scarcely accounted for a fifth of the country's real estate ; and most of it was shit anyway when compared with the 3-5 century old stuff in transylvania.
mircea_popescu: perhaps notable for the device : a) the ~rights~ without any encumberances of real estate named goes on to new owner ; b) anyone currently living there is now renting from new owner, no matter what title they thought they had ; c) anyone fucking with this gets 10 years hard labour.
mircea_popescu: they also have a rule about bombing rogue states that steal $5bn out of people's wealth to pay cronies.
asciilifeform: meant to say, vermin linked to mircea_popescu's article ? dun they have a rule against this?!
mircea_popescu: in other news, i'm somewhat puzzled that NOBODY said a single word re new trilema header.
asciilifeform perenially wonders what felipelalli uses for a modem
mircea_popescu: yes, obviously the sputniks made a plane that could fly for 1/100 the "cost".
mats: and ... its a long list
asciilifeform: they can 'afford' 10k shitanium rifle where you can't even club a man with the butt
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 100k is a colonel's pay
mircea_popescu: 50k people making 100k a year that's 5bn
mats: i didn't see a deposit clear until 3 months into training (good thing i didn't really need it, had enough cash to buy running shoes and what not)
asciilifeform found that it is ~impossible to visit a museum of whatever kind in washington, or beach in delaware/md coast, without hearing spoken ru in the crowd at least once
phf: eh, i'm not too worried about it, i'm playing "spot the eastern european" game at the ocean city board walk. tall check, skinny check, fit check, not surrounded by 4 bros check. there are some easy matches though. fat +100 to american. not busted, but with a black guy +100 slav.
phf: trinque: so your bot has a bunch of string matches for things that come back from nickserv, but they are all stripped of special characters. like "nick has been ghosted." what i get back is "^Anick^A has been ghosted." is that some setting i'm missing? or something else?
mircea_popescu: seems the us is pretty ripe for giving the people a voice etc.
mircea_popescu: sooo, is lybia going to bomb the us now, to put obama in a cage, and hang himlater, while "giving a chance to democracy" in that country ?
mircea_popescu: funny thing being, at the time i was running a sort of digg (well, much better, but anyway) in romanian, and people could actually cash out, via btc. a few did, not massive sums at the time, but massive sums in btc.
asciilifeform: it's a gag, but subj crossed 'parody horizon' long ago.
mircea_popescu: no it was a billion!
ben_vulpes: oh man the thing even has a "sign the papers" moment
mircea_popescu: according to documents seen by mp, the guardian publishes anything for a double hamburger.
mod6: will update the V99994 script and start a new test cycle.
mod6: alright, got a way to grab what's between the header & footer with sed:
BingoBoingo: In other "bathroom and too many dollars are getting printed lulz" a product exists called "bluetooth speaker bathroom fan with led light" intended to be installed as your bathroom's exhaust fan...
mod6: i guess to me, that meant clearsigning a pgp signed message. guess i didn't try that.
mircea_popescu: ok. and i recall they were getting a header or is this something else ?
mod6: but when it came down to it, she hit another error; her Ubuntu 10.04 test environment doesn't have `sharutils', a package that contains uuencode/uudecode. which is what V99994 is using to decode the deedified dependencies from deedbot.
mod6: <+BingoBoingo> Oh, so you hew a new vanity cabinet from timbers? << lol. no.
BingoBoingo: Oh, so you hew a new vanity cabinet from timbers?
mod6: i may post a few pics here later.
mod6: <+BingoBoingo> <mod6> this all started when the cat knocked off a heavy candle decaration off a high shelf, came down and shattered the pedestal sink. << Wait the drainpipe was fine? WHat was the problem? << the ceramic basin was completely shattered.
BingoBoingo: ANd then Gox finally kicked it a few months later
mircea_popescu: back when noobs still had dust, so his ~100 btc or w/e it was made a huge splash in the "community".
BingoBoingo: <mod6> this all started when the cat knocked off a heavy candle decaration off a high shelf, came down and shattered the pedestal sink. << Wait the drainpipe was fine? WHat was the problem?
hanbot: i had the same problem with V99994, ftr i suspect it's a user permissions issue as when i try to manually check that sig against the vpatch gpg complains it can't open the file (and that particular patch was just alphabetically first, ergo not special)
mod6: this all started when the cat knocked off a heavy candle decaration off a high shelf, came down and shattered the pedestal sink.
mod6: what a fiasco.
mircea_popescu: ftr buying camhos is even a worse deal than getting married.
shinohai: i need a larger pron budget
mircea_popescu: lol seems you made a friend in colombia.
shinohai: oh mircea_popescu chic from a few nights ago said thank you for the bitcoin, she loved it.
ben_vulpes: in other news i am taking babymomma on A DATE!!1
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-07#1516894 << holy FUQ shinohai do you also use a hammer when vga plug won't fit into keyboard jack ? ☝︎☟︎
asciilifeform: hanbot: my original v came with a key that had a since-expired date.
mircea_popescu: davout> asciilifeform: shut up, i saw a fucking monkey today << i assume he means this literally.
BingoBoingo: Fine (b)(1)(a)
asciilifeform: to continue associating with greenwald et al after the demise of the fella who leaked the catalogue ( http://btcbase.org/log/2015-03-27#1073554 etc ) he has to be a) idiot b) shill ☝︎
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: from the alleged tat blog: 'I had a chat with Bruce Fenton, of the Bitcoin Foundation, where I thanked him for representing Bitcoin well in his television interviews, as the media swarmed around the Craig Wright announcements yesterday. While we have many things to criticize the Foundation for, and Bruce himself in some regards, I was tipsy enough to realize that we can’t just keep writing off their efforts, and that i
davout: asciilifeform: shut up, i saw a fucking monkey today
asciilifeform: davout: you missed a great dope thread.
davout: drugs seem to be a big deal there
davout: sounds like a lot to me
davout: so far it seems like a pretty peaceful place, compare the stuff that makes the newspaper to what does in yurp: http://www.lexpress.mu/article/286927/quatre-bornes-pradeep-roopun-porte-plainte-pour-vol-legumes
davout: i'm renting a 3 bedroom house, with a pool, for like the ~750 eur/month
davout: from what i've seen a cleaning lady costs like 4 or 5 times less than in france, but the rest isn't *that* cheaper
mircea_popescu: is that what, a french possession ? independent ?
davout: yeah, i'm waiting a few months to see if i actually like it here
asciilifeform: 'Is Placebocin paradise, Erehwon, Shangri-La, utopia, Eden, and heaven all in a tiny gelatin capsule? Is Placebocin a T-3 fiberoptic Gigabit Ethernet connection to the Net? Is there anything that Placebocin cannot cure?'
mircea_popescu: she bought a cane and thought it's a laser and bought a funbox and thought it's a measurement tool.
mircea_popescu: to be perfectly honest, a lot of your "oh, cern is not needed" is inseparable in my mind from "oh why should i spend the 50 on buying cable for antenna, not needed".
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: there is no question that it is poor design, you would never encounter such a thing even in undergrad lab
asciilifeform: who never, afaik, once got a hold of, e.g., a used 'fluke' field strength meter, or any other adult toy.
a111: Logged on 2014-11-26 04:23 asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: at one point i needed some conductive cloth (the kind with silver strands) for an experiment. to my great surprise, i discovered that there is a large manufacturer in usa, and they do brisk business with folks suffering from precisely the kind of phobia described in decimation's link.
asciilifeform: linked item is not a recommendation for purchase... but demo of 'madness market', we had thread
mircea_popescu: and why the fuck pay these derps 50 bux instead of just plugging a ten mile long cable into some capacitors and pipe to serial connector on pc.
asciilifeform: 'Julianne McKinney, former Army Intelligence officer, Director of the Electronic Surveillance Project, a sub-group of the Association of National Security Alumni, and author of...'
mircea_popescu: ah it was a different someone ?
asciilifeform: 'Julianne McKinney reports that back in the 1980s and 1990s, persons complaining of electronic harassment were dismissed as “wavies,” and the government took the position that electronic weapons simply did not exist. The government no longer takes this position, she notes, but the “wavies” of yore are still a threat, apparently, so propaganda pieces alleging mental illness are now the preferred mode of attempted discrediting
mircea_popescu: grep for "wavies", a term i didn't see before, she halfmouthedly admits it.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-07 16:12 phf: i broke a thing
mircea_popescu: "i had a nut, but then i eted it. then i eted it. then iiiiii"
phf: i broke a thing ☟︎
phf: with a modern PC twist
phf: that would be a righteous project to fund, it'll burn thousands of btc and the crumble under its own weight. "featuring in game cinematics by alexandro jodorowski"
mircea_popescu: nah, she needs a video game, a remake of planescape : torment.
phf: she needs a video game, a whacky take on Thief series
phf: thestringpuller: there's a limited number of cultural references for these people. that's why all the conspiracy theory youtube videos use that one track from the matrix when they need to lay down "truth" etc.
mircea_popescu: phf no but they're "busy" with "their business". as if there could be a fucking business.
mircea_popescu: and totally neglects the fact that most of the hospital's business comes in the shape of dudes that show up in unmarked vans, tie him to a wall and fuck him in the ass while loading/unloading patients.
mircea_popescu: they're the equivalent of a guy that sits with a baseball bat in front of hospital and chases the elderly, the infirm and the disabled away.
asciilifeform: 'We spend a lot of money on things like security audits, compliance, understanding the laws of each country where we operate, obtaining regulatory licenses around the world, great engineering, and many more mundane areas like lunches for employees (there is a competitive market to hire the best people out there).' << gold.
mircea_popescu: specifically in 2013 MPEx gave a sort of soft ultimatum to the public : either you rally behind us, and push the world into the future, or you rally behind either of these two options and get raped.
mircea_popescu: since they pretend to have a state.
asciilifeform: since when is there even a 'the public' ? i thought there were only individual chumps..
mircea_popescu: back when mp was saying this while mpex was a public company, the idiots knew better.
mircea_popescu: i can scarcely think of a situation where spook's odds are improved by shooting.
mircea_popescu: point remains, a "secret agent" shooting is not unlike a "mathematician" doing finger-addition.
mircea_popescu: in other lulz, back 20 years ago, friend being pursued by especially insultingly incompetent "secret service" called in a hit on their car. boxed them in, got them out, beat the shit out of them, took them to police station as per tradition. police wouldn't make arrest, he berated them a good one. and left.
asciilifeform: ( it was a car tracker )
asciilifeform: incidentally the last time his happened, iirc, the victim ended up with a gag order and costly legal bill
mircea_popescu: yes, there will be a chorus of "ononononon", and you just behead the lot.
asciilifeform: ( asciilifeform is still waiting to buy a 'GODSURGE' !1111 h
mircea_popescu: that's how a sane person structures this claim. "i am in possession of the electronics here documented. i got them because X tried to bug my house. feel free to come up with alternative explanation"
asciilifeform: but 'They (NSA) apparently targeted me to warn me off or punish me for having my lawyer subpoena–in February 2015–corroborating information on the identity and existence of Eric Hagemann, a now retired NSA executive who had broken into my home and bugged it illegally because I had filed the IG complaint against one of his buddies.' is testable claim, no?