asciilifeform: 'A SWIFT Service Bureau, is the kind-of the equivalent of the Cloud for Banks when it comes to their SWIFT transactions and messages, the banks transactions are hosted and managed by the SWIFT Service Bureau via an Oracle Database and the SWIFT Softwares. This is why we see that many of those Service Bureau also offer KYC, Compliance, Anti-Laundering services since they have access to all those transactions as their are the host for
asciilifeform: it ain't a mega-fortune, but also not penny on asphalt.
asciilifeform: and not '10 btc total', the new alphago one just by itself is worth ~17 btc
asciilifeform: in other noose, asciilifeform set a squirrel trap on the roof but at night experienced squirrel sappers defused it and threw to the ground...
asciilifeform: '...complainant's father is hitting her... ...he has access to long guns, a shotgun, but it was not used in this incident...' << lol!
asciilifeform: '...94 year-old, said he was a vet..'
asciilifeform: 'Mircea Popescu stole a large amount of BTC from BitBet.us prior to this...' << lol☟︎
asciilifeform: '...25 y.o. female... took entire bottle'
asciilifeform: i'd naively imagine they would 'excommunicate' these
asciilifeform: cop 'a': 'your caller is janet. she wants to discuss... strange things with you. she says she saw strobe lights in her neighbour's house, and that he is communicating with her via... electromagnetic fields.' cop 'b' : 'yes i'm familiar with her'
asciilifeform: police radio : '...no one was in danger. and the caller was anonymous.'
asciilifeform pictures nsa goons with NJDs combing the woods
asciilifeform: 'Once the ladder ended, it was easy to climb from branch to branch up to where the material was located. A bird had built a nest on top of the sealed container. Happily, the nest was empty: breeding season had passed. We opened the container. The item was inside. We remained in the tree for a while....'
asciilifeform: in classical su rug like this is 1) on floor 2) on wall (usually next to bed)☟︎
asciilifeform: 'hi, it's still me, here's my new key, now let's talk'--anonderp4398598395
asciilifeform: nope, probably meant exactly this. 'anonymous' (in the sense of, no fixed rsa pub.)
asciilifeform: nonymous identities. When I first talked to him, I made a new anonymous identity, and then when he got to Hong Kong, I switched. And when he left Hong Kong, I switched again.”'
asciilifeform: 'From the start, he said, their communication was flawed. Snowden had initially forgotten to provide his own PGP key, which meant that Micah’s reply couldn’t be encrypted. “Everything wasn’t perfect,” Micah said, recalling such missteps. “But there was no red flag, and I’ve gotten lots of emails from random anonymous people. I did pretty well, considering that I had no idea what the hell was going on. I kept switching a
asciilifeform: re usg.'journalists' 'helping' snowdens, e.g., 'If you want to set up a secure way to communicate (which I think every journalist should) the best method is IM with an OTR encryption. You’ll need: a Jabber account, Pidgin IM client, and OTR plug-in.'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: with kcl ?! you'd have to stab somebody with it neh
asciilifeform: mod6: the idea of 'ideal rngistor', self-contained diode+isotope, but also in such a way that $isotope is something that is sold worldwide and passes unmolested through the post etc.
asciilifeform: mod6: but contemplated experiment (see kcl thread ) is re something else
asciilifeform: mod6: i have a bog-standard geiger here in toolbox
asciilifeform: in other noose, a geiger ( sbm-20 tube: sov., circa early 1980s ) tied to a 500g plastic bottle of KCl registers 0.18uSv/hr (incl. room background: 0.07 uSv/hr.)
asciilifeform: re: ^ >> <kakobrekla> want me to spin up a fresh instance lol
asciilifeform: also worked great for z-axis zeroing (pick up pipette, then stab at the estimated height of the weighing platform, stepwise, until it registers )
asciilifeform: (sorta physical equiv. of 'diff by file size')
asciilifeform: and want to fist-pass test if this is in fact so.
asciilifeform: btw an ~accurate~ balance is a mighty useful thing to have. esp. if you deal with piles of physical objects that are nominally identical
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i don't know of any us-made electronic balance
asciilifeform: ( prior to buying this little tool, asciilifeform used a... prehistoric su-era hanging balance . y'know, the kind 'lady justice' has . )
