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mircea_popescu: mats_cd03 naggum's ? yes, formaly it's great.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: precisely it
assbot: Logged on 08-12-2013 16:40:53; mircea_popescu: and the same princuople goes to the "devteam" retards implememnting pki
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: try it.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: putere << it all works fine in ru.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: lol!
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes> sure, it guarantees << duh.
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> this is fundamentally different from what the boy in question does, on forums and while commuting. << pah yup
mircea_popescu: <mats_cd03> but do uber, airbnb, dropbox, and the like not deserve billion dollar valuations?" <<< i agree that other people's shit stinks but isn't my doodoo all perfumed ?!
mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> 'this time is different' << win.
asciilifeform: mats_cd03: at least 1000 years old.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: is he also 'into' the rat emerging from other side?
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: ?
assbot: Logged on 17-02-2014 19:11:41; asciilifeform: here, author is almost certainly satisfying his own desires: http://actualhistory.ru/app/var/pub/files/86/41776_image_large.jpg
kakobrekla: mats_cd03 at this point you can coin your own coin.
xmj: ben_vulpes: go explain asciilifeform about that one please
myriadgetsmehard: ben_vulpes yes
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: we call those 'match grade' in usa
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: but the bullets are materially different. lathed shit, perhaps.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes ratcatchers << no.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: wouldntchalovetoknow
myriadgetsmehard: laugh if you want. i'm offering $100k in BTC to whoever can sell it. wil do ben_vulpes
myriadgetsmehard: mircea_popescu they only think .com's are valuable :/
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: orlov termed this 'homo sapiens lite'
assbot: Logged on 12-09-2014 00:06:32; asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'Rinduieli' ~= (arabic) 'adat' ?
ben_vulpes: the mind boggles at the thing mircea_popescu finds difficult to explain, in any language.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes hard to explain, in english.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: intimacy - sure. but this one is in encyclopaedias, and fed to n00bs as actual data that has bearing on what is possible, worth doing, worth funding, etc.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: think millikan's experiment is a clusterfuck? in computer 'science', folks like lenat are schoolbook-famous for experiment that not only have not but cannot be replicated with available data.
BingoBoingo: !up pollos_gringos
kuzetsa glares at http://ww2.qfind.net/?__jsfail
pete_dushenski: was it 6 months that ver was donating millions? now, 1/1000 that. mircea_popescu was right, dood is broke: https://twitter.com/rogerkver/status/515344889807003649
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: edulcorously?
gribble: Douglas Lenat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Lenat>; Cyc - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyc>; Cycorp | Home of smarter solutions: <http://www.cyc.com/>
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu, kakobrekla: let me know when you're done l33ch1ng t3h l33t w4rez
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ^ w4r3z
asciilifeform: kakobrekla, mircea_popescu.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: glassing is the wholesale production of borosilicate glass out of the landscape as the side effect of a runaway nuclear reaction. << this is a great definition
mats_cd03: http://www.baenebooks.com/chapters/1597801348/1597801348___3.htm
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: neato! reading...
asciilifeform: mats_cd03: i've been thinking about it ever since al schwartz recommended it in '01...
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: try: http://loper-os.org/pub/lenat-leaks.tar.gz.torrent ☟︎
asciilifeform: in response to years of prodding from various folks, and mircea_popescu reminding me that 'lesswrong' existed, i took an hour or so to digitize the old douglas lenat papers. now need a place to host
JuliaTourianski: omg. dying. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/25/taylor-swift-no-its-becky_n_5883126.html?&ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000067
JuliaTourianski: https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2F2013hoaxblog.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fhilton_poor.jpg&f=1
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Well... Testicles was a great warrior in the Classical period...
thestringpuller: ~_~
JuliaTourianski: +mircea_popescu quite well, how goes wherever you live?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: doesn't make it worthless.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it doesn't usually survive this treatment
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this is generally why ancient sf is best read in childhood
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this partially why he was revered in the soviet world, where he in fact died (on tour) a few years ago.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: sheckley was a sort of comedian.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this was not limited to the loltron. plenty of 'humans' made excuses.
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: or semiconductors encased in continuous conductive countours.
gribble: Nonlinear junction detector - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonlinear_junction_detector>; REI ORION 2.4 Non-Linear Junction Detector: <http://www.research-electronics.com/cgi-bin/main.cgi?action=viewprod&ct=products&pct=ORION%202.4&num=ORION%202.4>; NLJD - Non Linear Junction Detector Tutorial - Granite Island Group: (1 more message)
assbot: Logged on 07-07-2014 14:17:39; asciilifeform: BingoBoingo, mircea_popescu, others: re: electronics-sniffing dog << distraction psyop. in real life, hidden electronics are found with a nonlinear junction detector.
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=07-07-2014#747841 ☝︎
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: ancient item, search #b-a logs.
pete_dushenski: <mircea_popescu> lord norwich is the english authority on venice << merci!
BingoBoingo: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/76/Clitoria_%28253000626%29.jpg
ThickAsThieves: <+mircea_popescu> "what means safe" "what means healthy" /// such a semantic day!
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: are their English subs on that one at least?
berndj-blackout: thanks mircea_popescu - just figuring out the cloak&dagger stuff :)
mircea_popescu: mike_c well yeah, almost 16, something
mircea_popescu: <mike_c> 20 year old bug, good luck figuring out author. <<< right, because nothing ever can be documented past the lifespan of the average teenager.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: the most there is is me going on the record that .6.* is probably okay. << This sounded like a cartoon. Like the Family Guy cut away where the dude throws him a parachute with an anvil in it and says, "That one is probably okay"
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: runaway complexity may be intrinsic in von neumann paradigm.
mircea_popescu: mike_c: security audit is basically impossible. <<< im unconvinced.
mircea_popescu: mike_c it's a very large hole. odds of no pencildick managing to find it, ever... hm
mircea_popescu: mike_c checking if your box is open is something you'll haveto do yourself.
Naphex: mike_c: check is simple cause bash shouldn't run anything in the env
assbot: 4 results for 'from:mircea_popescu env' : http://search.bitcoin-assets.com/?q=from%3Amircea_popescu+env
mircea_popescu: !s from:mircea_popescu env
mircea_popescu: mike_c i just quoted it above
kuzetsa: mircea_popescu: I was just thinking the same thing
Naphex: mircea_popescu: env varname='() { :; }; echo CodeInjectionHereWorks' bash
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: recall how self-proclaimed (or accused...) alchemists were treated. do you mean to say that, if they were put through the right punishments, they would have discovered neutron bombardment synthesis of Au at economical price?
Naphex: mircea_popescu: its a stupid check lol
Naphex: mircea_popescu: gentoo has good patch out
kuzetsa: mircea_popescu: there's 2 different patches
kuzetsa: mike_c: I'm certain that the public-internet-facing daemons on the system in question don't pass stuff around using environment variables
Naphex: mike_c: no, you can change env regardless, its just that if bash interpets the env it runs
Naphex: mike_c: env is general POSIX
Naphex: mircea_popescu: yeah but that doesn't hit sh until successful login
mircea_popescu: mike_c notice how little beating is actually needed, among civilised adults that interiorise the wot model.
kuzetsa: mircea_popescu: but... I don't have any cgi on the httpd, nor are any of the other daemons the sort which use environment variables to pass stuff around (using bash or otherwise)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: different gedankenexperiment. take redditgurlz, say a dozen. lock them in a dungeon, no food until invent hydrogenbomb.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the basic problem is that anyone who tells you that he can do this job - is a liar, right off the bat
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: code auditing without a serious 'poison pill contract' turns into 'elephant repellant.'
wywialm: mircea_popescu, that sounds very much like Wittgenstein - correct me if i'm wrong
mircea_popescu: mike_c
mircea_popescu: mike_c: meet behind the school at noon << yo!
mircea_popescu: mats_cd03: language drifts news at 11 << language drifting so as to serve the interests and needs of the upper class is fine.
asciilifeform: ;;later tell ben_vulpes puzzle, because am n00b: http://imgur.com/a/JggcG << why does parting tool produce a spiral finish? and what determines the geometry of the spiral?
mircea_popescu: mats_cd03 owning like 1% of 1% of the world's currency ain't the worst fate.
mircea_popescu: mats_cd03: but every contractor in the world is a miserable, lying thief. << because you pay upfront.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://www.itnews.com.au/News/396180,amazon-forced-to-reboot-ec2-to-patch-xen-bug.aspx << possibly relevant to your latest item
nubbins`: mats_cd03 pretty much
nubbins`: http://www.moibibiki.com/files/images/images640_/audi-r8-1.jpg