asciilifeform: http://qntra.net/2015/02/your-cellphone-is-a-tracking-device-that-relays-your-conversations-in-plaintext/#comment-11803 << for anyone who gives a fuck re: gsm

asciilifeform: danielpbarron: post it to the listserv

asciilifeform: danielpbarron: ideally these things ought to be there

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: http://cryptome.org/2015/02/juraboev-complaint.pdf << mega-lol re: terrorist-creation

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: have you considered leaving that snow where it is ?

asciilifeform: hey it wurks for me

asciilifeform: aha

asciilifeform: that indictment is riotously funny

asciilifeform: usg found two clinically certifiable imbeciles and now they have 'terrorists' in the dock ☟︎

asciilifeform: it's pretty standard in that the 'dangerous terrorists' are just as obviously one or two notches above the iq level where one needs institutional care

asciilifeform: as in most such cases

asciilifeform: does it matter to which honeypot they go ?

asciilifeform: if imbeciles.

asciilifeform: allah forbid they find a -working- weapon, will shoot wrong end towards enemy, somebody'll have to clean up their guts

asciilifeform: their 'plan', to the extent one could use that word here, appears to have been - to shoot police at random, and then collect their gear, which which to repeat same, ad infinitum

asciilifeform: every time i read a document like this (and they're all quite the same, as mircea_popescu observed all clinical material re: the criminally insane being much alike - or was that tlp?)

asciilifeform: i think of the folks who might have tried to go to the moon in balloons, or shooting selves out of cannons, in the past ☟︎

asciilifeform: and speaking of our hanging, where are the -thinking- terrorists ?

asciilifeform: i, for one, will be quite disappointed to hang on the same gallows as these disgraceful excuses for 'public enemy'

asciilifeform: those aren't 'terrorists' properly speaking

asciilifeform: but ordinary soldiers, of an army which doesn't officially exist

asciilifeform: speaking here of proper terrorists.

asciilifeform: sure you can.

asciilifeform: as described in mircea_popescu's 'nobody could have foreseen' essay;

asciilifeform: or suvorov's 'spetsnaz';

asciilifeform: or the novel 'stand on zanzibar';

asciilifeform: or 10,000 other places.

asciilifeform: a 'terrorist' for the purpose of this line of thought is anyone who is on track to being imprisoned by usg under charge of 'terrorism.'

asciilifeform: not wholly unknowable

asciilifeform: i.e., if you were a fly on the wall (fly that speaks uzbek) where the two cretins had their conversations, you might be able to guess

asciilifeform: decimation: ru army copied even american boots not long ago

asciilifeform: !s wrappings

asciilifeform: hm

asciilifeform: !s leg wraps

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=22-02-2015#1028969 ☝︎

asciilifeform: ^ thread

asciilifeform: cost doesn't seem a likely reason, imho. iirc, crew-served machine guns don't have chromed mechanicals either

asciilifeform: mats? adlai?

asciilifeform: if i had to guess, i'd imagine Cr cold-welds on impact with self, or something like that

asciilifeform: meanwhile, in the world of sane folks,

asciilifeform: 'Due to the well-known fact that all compilers have bugs, it is the conventional wisdom of the safety critical community to avoid assuming that the generated object code is automatically correct. For instance, the approach taken in the avionics standard DO-178B is one of Design, Review and Test [DO-178B]. As far as practical, the review and test activities are undertaken at the object code level. Indeed, if the reliability req

asciilifeform: uirements of Class 1 flight critical software (the most critical) are to be attained, every attempt must be made to detect errors induced by a compiler. This is expensive, but unavoidable given current technology. The pragma Reviewable applies to a partition so that the compiler can generate code to match special documentation thus permitting independent review of the object code. The following specific requirements apply...'

asciilifeform: ( http://www.adaic.org/resources/add_content/standards/95rat/rat95html/rat95-p3-h.html )

asciilifeform: ^ yes there are language primitives for helping to ease the pain of the fella who gets to read the disasm after you're done

asciilifeform: mats: know what else is expensive ?

asciilifeform: 'boeing' that falls down

asciilifeform: or a bitcoinator that $insertcatastropicfailure

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: gnatmake hello.adb

asciilifeform: with ada.text_io;

asciilifeform: use ada.text_io;

asciilifeform: procedure hello is

asciilifeform: begin

asciilifeform: put("Hello World");

asciilifeform: end hello;

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: don't expect a repl, ada is a classical compiled thing like c or fortran

asciilifeform: the 'rationale' chapter on oop system is interesting in that it cites the 'common lisp', c++, 'eiffel', 'smalltalk' standards materials, and expects that you are familiar with them and can understand a summary of differences

asciilifeform: it is an immediate mindfuck to be confronted with a computing-related document written this way.

asciilifeform: not something i've experienced since working with steele's 'common lisp the language'

asciilifeform: among the books i can picture on the shelves at the great library of 'meta-nsa' - this tome surely has its place

asciilifeform almost expected to see a catalogue

asciilifeform: https://www.nsa.gov/public_info/declass/records_management/ia_rds.pdf << funnily enough.

asciilifeform: catalogue.

asciilifeform: (doubtfully would be posted without hitler's approval, so take with grain of salt)

asciilifeform: http://cryptome.org/2014/10/nsa-eci-the-intercept-14-1010.pdf << crown jewels catalogue, purportedly, circa '03

asciilifeform: decimation: well-known. but, personally never had occasion to.

asciilifeform: and ^ answer to http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-02-2015#1013854 ☝︎

asciilifeform: incidentally,,

asciilifeform: https://dattaz.fr/nsa/index.html

asciilifeform: ^ unfortunately not actively updated

asciilifeform: (e.g. contains no detail re: 'pendleton' and 'piedmont', the directorates-of-what-shall-we-do-about-pgp cited in earlier 'crown jewels' list) ☟︎

asciilifeform: https://github.com/openssl/openssl/tree/OpenSSL_1_0_1-stable/crypto/bn/asm << very interesting reading for connoisseurs

asciilifeform: yes! asm-optimized routines for bignum get crapped out by perl scripts..

asciilifeform: slept better without knowing this? too bad.

asciilifeform not sure how many of those, if any, are enabled on typical build for respective system

asciilifeform can't be bothered to find out

asciilifeform: not even impossible to think that it still happens.

asciilifeform pictures them waving back

asciilifeform: lolwut

asciilifeform: isthata ziptie?

asciilifeform: http://rumpkernel.org << interesting

asciilifeform: ^ or maybe not. seems like an elaborate rehash of '80s microkernel concept

asciilifeform: but potentially useful for netbsd diddlers.

asciilifeform finds himself writing a netbsd kernel mod, has approximately same thoughts as fella who wakes up in 'dumpster' in a back alley, 'how i came to this sort of life' ?

asciilifeform: benkay (~benkay@unaffiliated/benkay) has joined #bitcoin-assets << divorced ?

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: le jour de gloire est arrivé ?

asciilifeform: damn.

asciilifeform: l0ltin

asciilifeform: !s dan quayle

asciilifeform: http://www.bauer.uh.edu/rsusmel/Other/Quayle.htm

asciilifeform: 'I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.'