asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: the depressing part, d00d seems to be 'chasing dragon', appears to think that the Ultimate Dope is waiting, somewhere, to be found, wunderwaffen, will bring victory.
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel_p: phf has it. use kalman reti's infamous bolix movie as a guide.
asciilifeform not deep scholar of subj, and has nfi what has been tried in the show trials, and with what result.
asciilifeform: and cemented by precedent. so only removable by thermonuke.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ianal, but iirc it is postulated by statute
asciilifeform: lol just when i thought mircea_popescu had linked to every possible type of tmblr
asciilifeform: the feedstock is counted as 'pure product'.
asciilifeform: for instance, a kg of lsd has, in all likelihood, never existed on planet3, but ~every single trial of american makers of it has involved such a qty or larger
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel_p: ~all dope turns, 'magically', into 100% purity, when busted in usa. it is a peculiarity of the prosecutorial system, moar pure --> moar sentence
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel_p: this type of life has worked for programmers (e.g., rms, though he did eventually turn into a human mushroom, and i do not think it was pure chance)
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel_p: if you're thinking of nic-on-xilinx, every single one (with the exception of the 10BaseT half-duplex that's floated around since 1990s) relies on a xilinx-proprietary fabric turd
asciilifeform: kinda hilarious, while the two 'cans of campbell soup' duke it out over massive-blox vs elephantine-blox, boring ol' workaday usgolade, e.g. 'pki', quietly made it into all prb variants
asciilifeform: the sheer depth of the retardation, ( https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0070.mediawiki ) >> 'Human-readable, secure payment destinations-- customers will be asked to authorize payment to "example.com" instead of an inscrutable, 34-character bitcoin address.' 'Resistance from man-in-the-middle attacks that replace a merchant's bitcoin address with an attacker's address before a transaction is authorized with a hardware w
asciilifeform: the trick is not crapple-specific, either, most new laptop includes 'thunderbolt' plug, which is simply external pci
asciilifeform: the bit with diddled nic dongles is lulzy.
asciilifeform: lulzy bit of disinfo, also (as if virginal pnojes were 'clean'.)
asciilifeform: 'Also included in this release is the manual for the CIA's "NightSkies 1.2" a "beacon/loader/implant tool" for the Apple iPhone. Noteworthy is that NightSkies had reached 1.2 by 2008, and is expressly designed to be physically installed onto factory fresh iPhones. i.e the CIA has been infecting the iPhone supply chain of its targets since at least 2008.'
asciilifeform: in his head that causes behavioral problems.'
asciilifeform: in other lulz, https://archive.is/QUcCh >> 'U.S.-Israeli teen arrested in Israel over bomb threats to Jewish centers'. 'A young Israeli man who also holds U.S. citizenship was arrested in Israel on Thursday on suspicion of making dozens of hoax bomb threats against Jewish community centers in the United States and several other countries. At a court hearing near Tel Aviv, the suspect's defense attorney said the young man has a growth
asciilifeform: looks like we don't disagree: distant.
asciilifeform: put pci, dma, usb, etc. to bed, for good.
asciilifeform: a burn-off of the accumulated stupidity to date, would be a great start.
asciilifeform: in re intel, it gotta die, but if it 'dies' merely by getting a chinese board of directors, but continues to produce ye olde x86 liquishit, with 35 yrs of idiocy built on top -- then didn't really die, not yet.
