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jurov: dn't you plan
to release
these 10k of SLOC (not LOC) open source?
jurov: that remains
to be seen
EskimoBob: and here we go again. another exchange bites
the dust. At least people do not get glbsed
jurov: cryptostocks seem
to be linked
to vircurex, not
to cryptoxchange
EskimoBob: now he is coding a world best web site? SolidCoin was almost as delusional as
this guy
EskimoBob: mircea_popescu: when did
this clown started
to code?
mircea_popescu: if someone
told me gcc is eighteen lines i'd be impressed. eighty million... sounds like windoze.
mircea_popescu: who
the hell is proud of having written MANY lines of code ?
dub: one of
the best games ever
dub: xcom: enemy unknown, yeah
they've jsut done a new one
Namjies: I had some fun with
the Fallout
Tactics one but really not
the same
thing.
mircea_popescu: Namjies fallout 1/2 rocked. pity
they fucked
the franchise later.
mod6: oh anyway, just saying how
there are so many random attacks from bots etc. many winders machines get pwned if not updated on
the regular
dub: tracked it
to some romanians
Namjies: I have
to play
that game again.
dub: imbarassingly I only noticed because I had
too many connections
to undernet suddenly
Namjies: eheh, old bots, forgotten by
their hacker and still in use by
the business.
That little unkown process just sending odd requests outside.
dub: who either did nothign at all or patched
the hole but left
the infection
dub: lost count of how many
times I've heard 'we got a security expert in
to fix it'
dub: why wouldnt
the bill be paid? server is still sitting
there doing its job, its just doing another job
too
dub: a lot of it will be old bots cut off from
the c&c but still scanning
mod6: It blows my mind
that any machine
that exists on public IP space currently, and is in a legacy OS setup wouldn't already be compromised.
mircea_popescu: quick quizz : what profession did Delphaline, aged 17 in
the pic go into ?
Namjies: But you know
there's a few businesses out
there
that update
their software every 20 years or so. An
that's almost not an hyperbole.
Namjies: Yeah, well as I said,
those scripts don't work so well when you want
to attack a specific server.
pigeons: also
they scan for shit from 2001
mircea_popescu: i can
tell by a few pixels and also
the very particular
time distribution
Namjies: If you scan at large for machines
to hack, I'm sure some guy with a single website on a small machine has not updated since
then...
mircea_popescu: once kids realise
that
the worst
that can happen if
they say something stupid is nothing at all
they can never stop yammering.
mircea_popescu: well ya, and
that lack of discretion isn't born out of
the complete lack of dire consequences for failure ?
pigeons: it comes about from not having
to have any discretion i
think. "oh i'm using some wndows botnet, who cares if i lose it". also oh i'll run a
tool from someone cared so little about
they made it public, and is used for people who don't care about stealth
they are using it on
their own servers
mircea_popescu: he's right Namjies, i did a piece on it a few days ago. people were
trying stuff literally patched in
the 2005 edition of asp.net
mircea_popescu: pigeons i want
the old west back. you pull your gun and miss ? you'll be missed.
Namjies: Just not so well when you want
to attack a specific server.
mircea_popescu: typical 16yo dickery, except 20 years ago
they were
telling stories about
the women
they fucked.
pigeons: no
that isnt important
to
them,
they just add
the failures
to
things
to
try
Namjies: No, but seriously,
they have
to share, or
they wouldn't have got
their hands on
their scripts in
the first place.
mircea_popescu: the only irritating part is
that after
they fail
they don't consequently get assraped by a velociraptor.
mircea_popescu: Namjies i bet you it's butthurt forum people who figure in
their own mind
they know shit.
Namjies: You want misfits
that have found no better way
to spend
their lonely
time
than looking
to damage web properties
to SOCIALIZE and SHARE
thing?
pigeons: yeah i'm sure
the same scan will be looking for cold fusion and asp as well
mircea_popescu: can't
the script kiddies just get
together, compare notes and engage in bro-love instead ?
mircea_popescu: like, automated acunetix or w/e it's called
that
thing
mircea_popescu: every
time
the girl blasts some dubious operation
to hell
there's a string of bs "attacks" on polimedia
pigeons: bitbulb.com, coming soon
to mpex
Namjies: Well I don't particularly like fillament lightbulbs but heck, I don't see a problem with
them.
mircea_popescu: and actually, inspired by
this discussion i
think ima buy a few more
tomorrow.
mircea_popescu: i am currently basking in
the light of
two 200W clear fillament lightbulbs
pigeons: you mean when
there is market intervention
there are consequences and unintented consequences?
mircea_popescu: The first
types
to go are non-clear (frosted) bulbs, which are off
the market since September 2009. Also from September 2009 clear bulbs over 100W were made of more efficient
types.
This limit was moved down
to lower wattages, and
the efficiency levels raised by
the end of 2012
mircea_popescu: funny enough
tho, diesel was at a premium (cause of
tanks)
pigeons: yeah in usa regular lightbulbs can't be sold starting some date in
the future, i dont know if
thats changed or what
mircea_popescu: there's a ban on fillament lightbulbs ?
they're sold in
the stores. fuck you, eu.
mircea_popescu: pretty much
the only
thing i like about romania is
that none of
this shit
took any hold (yet)
smickles: fear of poverty must motivate some good
that wouldn't have otherwise arisin
Namjies: not
the fuckwits,
they might well be. Both side
tend
to exaggerate and pull statistics out of nowhere.
pigeons: mircea_popescu: yes, where i live about 15 years ago
they mandated "low flow"
toliets
that
take 2 flushes, and
the old ones are selling for several hundred dollar premiums and i've sold out
mircea_popescu: i am against all action when
that action doesn't have a moral and legitimate profit reason.
mircea_popescu: Namjies i guess so. but i don't want
to hurt
them either, i just don't want
to end poverty.
that's all.
smickles: fuckit, screw
this planet as hard as we can, we need
to get off
this rock anyway
Namjies: Well [00:21] <mircea_popescu> who put
those fuckwits
there. i don't want
to end poverty and i piss on social justice omg wtf
pigeons: yeah i stocked up on good lightbulbs, i learned my lesson, made a killing on regular flow
toliets
Namjies: I'm
talking merely about avoiding of negatively impacting people in general when you can and are aware of it.
pigeons: plus
the light from
those
toxic cfl
things is awful and depressing
mircea_popescu: they last less, and
then
they create piles of mercury.
Namjies: Yeah, what I'm saying, not do
that if you don't believe it's going
to help.
smickles: (throw a couple of commas in
there will you)
mircea_popescu: "scientists agree". fuck
them, 97% of
them have nothing
to do with science,
they just agree and get funding and agree more and get more funding.
smickles: at least it's cheaper if
they last as long as
they claim for
the end user
mircea_popescu: which were exactly at
their
technological level, a good stepping stone
to development
mircea_popescu: tho it doesn't help it, it just makes poor countries unable
to export lightbulbs
mircea_popescu: Namjies how about forcing everyone
to move
to
TOXIC mercury-based lighting under
the pretext of "helping
the environment"
Namjies: I'm not saying what many you hear ain't bollocks, especially when it comes
to "facts" about
the environments, people's condition, etc. being easy
to check out as false.
smickles: I saw
that when we
tried
to play monopoly,
thought it was bad ass just from
the form of it (aesthetics)
mircea_popescu: i like
the videotron.ca part, he's like a hardcore gamer :D
mircea_popescu: Namjies
there is no "common good" other
than in
the populist discourse.
Namjies: So I get it
the common good interest fews...