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00:03 mircea_popescu prolly.
00:06 decimation so, sure some feds are way underpaid, but the majority are overpaid losers
00:07 asciilifeform overpaid << who envies these folks ?
00:07 decimation naive clerks?
00:09 decimation actually there's a deeper problem. When you 'work' for a 'democracy', your boss is 'the people'
00:09 decimation when everyone is your boss, no one is your boss
00:09 asciilifeform mostly imaginary problem
00:10 asciilifeform in actual practice, there's an ordinary boss.
00:10 decimation who is accountable to a chain of bosses who ultimately account to themselves
00:11 decimation or maybe Obama fires people for failing to deliever?
00:18 scoopbot New post on Qntra.net by cazalla: http://qntra.net/2015/02/australian-drug-trafficker-pleads-guilty/
00:21 mats http://aje.io/e8yq kek
00:21 assbot Kerry: Moscow lying 'to my face' over Ukraine - Al Jazeera English ... ( http://bit.ly/1vxF1Ye )
00:21 asciilifeform speaking of which,
00:21 asciilifeform http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2015/02/the-amherst-cauldron.html
00:21 assbot ClubOrlov: The Amherst Cauldron ... ( http://bit.ly/1vxF5Hn )
00:22 mats "They have been persisting in their misrepresentations, lies, whatever you want to call them, about their activities there to my face"
00:24 decimation one wonders how many usg state department officers would be hired by other countries if usg went bankrupt
00:25 decimation "Oh I'm totally an awesome diplomat, look at my years of usg experience!"
00:26 mats that post is silly. the guard would fail overnight.
00:26 decimation http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/04/russias-diplomats-are-better-than-ours-105773.html
00:26 assbot Russian Diplomats Are Eating America's Lunch - James Bruno - POLITICO Magazine ... ( http://bit.ly/1vxFB8s )
00:28 mats give it another four years and all the useful combat vets will have exited the service out of sheer disgust
00:29 decimation mats: I've witnessed that happening too
00:30 mats the clever ones are already losing their minds in group
00:31 mats too much political fuckery, civ and mil, for any useful body to bear
00:31 decimation unfortunately, this means that the current population of the military is strongly selected for nominal loyalty to usg
00:31 decimation at least as long as the dollars keep rolling
00:31 asciilifeform meanwhile, http://www.politico.com/story/2015/02/ash-carter-russia-vladimir-putin-defense-115421.html?ml=m_po
00:31 assbot Ash Carter warns Russia on nukes - Philip Ewing - POLITICO ... ( http://bit.ly/1vxG6PO )
00:34 asciilifeform how many germans quit ss 'out of sheer disgust'
00:34 decimation asciilifeform: why does usg keep wanting to bring back the cold war? nostalgia?
00:36 asciilifeform why does a pyro burn houses?
00:37 asciilifeform this is simply what usg... is. at least since it was grown enough to even -have- a foreign policy.
00:41 mats SS didn't get stomped multiple times and asked to enjoy it.
00:42 mats granted, they were trounced in ... northern africa? my ww2 history knowledge languishes.
00:52 mats anyway, i did say useful. night folks.
00:56 ben_vulpes jurov, asciilifeform: as though "lisp" and "algol" even exist as actual things.
01:02 asciilifeform folks keep insisting on discussing 'lisp'
01:02 asciilifeform so why not algol.
01:06 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 20466 @ 0.00040315 = 8.2509 BTC [+]
01:12 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 25200 @ 0.00040403 = 10.1816 BTC [+] {2}
01:22 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 12921 @ 0.00040563 = 5.2411 BTC [+] {2}
01:23 decimation asciilifeform: unfortunately ada (derived from pascal-algol) has 1-based array indexes
01:24 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 15186 @ 0.00040757 = 6.1894 BTC [+]
01:25 asciilifeform decimation: foo: array (Integer range 0 .. N) of Whatever;
01:25 asciilifeform decimation: so nope.
01:25 asciilifeform at least, not if you don't want.
01:25 decimation ah that's useful
01:26 decimation all the examples I've found start with a 1
01:26 asciilifeform can start with 31337 if you like.
01:26 decimation I assumed it was a language 'feature' like matlab
01:26 decimation matlab 1-based indexing is enraging
01:26 asciilifeform ada, like common lisp, is interesting for the mostly-complete absence of any obviously braindamaged decisions forced upon the user
01:27 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 6065 @ 0.00040757 = 2.4719 BTC [+]
01:31 asciilifeform ' If you have a powered up NEXTEL on your belt and you walk within 12 feet of a STU-III in secure mode you have just compromised the classified key.'
01:31 asciilifeform (from vintage quasi-usg catalogue, http://www.tscm.freeservers.com/stu.html - apparently this has 'always' been on the net)
01:31 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1DnUWs9 )
01:31 asciilifeform ^ ninjasp4mwifi
01:36 decimation asciilifeform: how can any kind of signal magically compromise a stu?
01:46 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 22559 @ 0.0004069 = 9.1793 BTC [-]
01:58 ben_vulpes `emacs` on remote server pops x11 frame locally
01:58 ben_vulpes `emacs -daemon && emacsclient -c`...not so much.
02:05 cazalla mmm home made potato gnocchi with muh tomato/chilli sauce (both from garden) and chorizo.. just missing a beer :\
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02:33 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 7249 @ 0.00040757 = 2.9545 BTC [+]
02:34 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 11851 @ 0.00040803 = 4.8356 BTC [+]
02:35 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 32050 @ 0.00041021 = 13.1472 BTC [+] {2}
02:40 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 30671 @ 0.0004142 = 12.7039 BTC [+] {2}
02:46 ben_vulpes !up benkay
02:46 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 15658 @ 0.00040481 = 6.3385 BTC [-] {3}
02:47 punkman http://www.thoughtcrime.org/blog/gpg-and-me/
02:47 assbot Moxie Marlinspike >> Blog >> GPG And Me ... ( http://bit.ly/1MQsK6T )
02:47 ben_vulpes harumph.
02:47 punkman !up benkay
02:49 ben_vulpes thanks punkman.
02:49 ben_vulpes just...testing in production.
02:49 ben_vulpes decimation, lmk if you need a hand with erc and sasl.
02:50 ben_vulpes the trick is (drumroll please)
02:50 ben_vulpes https://github.com/joseph-gay/erc-sasl
02:50 assbot joseph-gay/erc-sasl · GitHub ... ( http://bit.ly/1MQt2dK )
02:50 ben_vulpes i
02:51 benkay ;;ticker
02:51 gribble Bitstamp BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 237.82, Best ask: 238.2, Bid-ask spread: 0.38000, Last trade: 238.11, 24 hour volume: 5762.20622708, 24 hour low: 236.3, 24 hour high: 240.98, 24 hour vwap: 238.981156577
02:57 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 20850 @ 0.0004004 = 8.3483 BTC [-] {2}
02:58 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 41211 @ 0.00039922 = 16.4523 BTC [-]
03:08 ben_vulpes if it's not one thing it's a dang nother.
03:19 ben_vulpes !up yhwh_
03:19 ben_vulpes your cloak is applied after you join, fyi
03:22 punkman !up gmaxwell
03:22 gmaxwell man y'all will get a kick out of the latest foundation lol-event. They have some _utterly_ braindead 'blockchain voting' scheme for their board vote run off (gotta love changing voting infrastructure mid election for election integrity)
03:23 gmaxwell So if you want to block Olivier Janssens from getting approved; for example get miners to just block payments to 1MG6SSwK2qSASM2QgBez2g4YFe3ib4d2eL.
03:24 gmaxwell (the site is so broken that I'm having a hard time extracting addresses for the other options)
03:25 punkman well at least they didn't do another fork to implement colored voting coins or whatever
03:26 punkman let 'em derp (tm)
03:27 BingoBoingo I am astounded at all of the ways they manage to keep screwing this election.
03:30 gmaxwell At the moment it seems all you can do is vote in favor of Olivier Janssens (thats why I'm able to see the address there), the rest of the options are coming up as "not available yet"
03:30 gmaxwell oh the jim harper options are up now too.
03:31 punkman is anyone still buying foundation memberships?
03:32 gmaxwell Org seems to be doing its damndest to commit suicide.
03:33 gmaxwell I also like that contacting Jinyoung Englund to report how buste things are, gets me a "I am out of the office Weds, February 25 through Sunday, March 1, 2015"
03:33 cazalla gmaxwell, http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=24-02-2015#1032132
03:33 assbot Logged on 24-02-2015 17:39:09; mircea_popescu: this is exactly like suicide : the people who succeed we want. the people who fail should have succeeded.
03:33 cazalla seems fitting lol
03:34 BingoBoingo I mean they were not doing too bad when they were just burning various agencies' time, but then they just pivoted and stopped doing that
03:35 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 9799 @ 0.00041516 = 4.0682 BTC [+] {2}
03:35 gmaxwell yea, I actually thought there work there more or less made sense; it had some liability (since they couldn't seem to resist letting people think they 'spoke for bitcoin') but it generally seemed to be going okay. Mostly burning pointless peoples pointless time, sure; but it was nice having _someone_ in combatting all the really agressive fud that some 'bitcoin alternatives' are slinging.
03:38 gmaxwell Another interesting property is that it should be trivial to buy votes with this thing.
03:38 fluffypony how are the votes authenticated? based on the address they're coming from?
03:39 gmaxwell sadly they didn't use this in round 1 where a real statement could be made by buying all the votes and assigning them to a joke candidate.
03:39 gmaxwell fluffypony: looks like it, hard to tell this system is opaque doesn't seem to be publically documented.
03:39 gmaxwell They have some hacked up flaky counterparty wallet software that gives you some preset destitions to vote.
03:40 fluffypony eugh
03:42 gmaxwell looks like for each voter they fund them with 0.0021 BTC (and some amount of 'counterparty' altcoin, I dunno how to tell how much)
03:43 gmaxwell looks like one can just take the 0.0021 BTC and not vote.
03:43 gmaxwell (well the UI doesn't prevent it, but the user appears to have the private key for it.)
03:44 BingoBoingo To the best of my knowledge the counterparty altcoin s just BTC that's mislabeled when you look at it through their wallet
03:45 gmaxwell BingoBoingo: nah, it seperately tracks 'counterparty' value, like a colored coin, the bitcoin is irrelevant, and just gets around the fact that bitcoin core won't relay 0 value txouts and miners are lazy and don't change defaults.
03:45 thestringpuller gmaxwell: now that is a name I have not seen in a long long time.
03:46 fluffypony Star Wars reference high five!
03:46 gmaxwell This channel isn't usually to my taste, but I knew some here would appricate this latest BCF lolspectacular.
03:46 BingoBoingo Ah
03:47 BingoBoingo The lulzslide is spectacular in this case
03:47 cazalla gmaxwell, what about #b-a is not to your liking?
03:48 fluffypony cazalla: the smell is kinda funky
03:48 thestringpuller that's cause of all the funny smoke in the room
03:48 gmaxwell I like how this ubersecure voting application embeds third party JS in every page (google analyitics); thats exactly how you go about building secure election and finance software. yup.
03:49 gmaxwell cazalla: not my taste doesn't necessarily imply an active dislike.
03:49 BingoBoingo Seriously. Google analytics is the worst.
03:49 BingoBoingo cazalla: The porn isn't to his aesthetics.
03:50 fluffypony I like GA for the interwebs, it's easy to block if you don't want to be spotted by it
03:50 BingoBoingo fluffypony: Still people insert GA in places it doesn't belong
03:51 fluffypony word
03:51 gmaxwell It's just an extra sideshow on the general lolfest of incompetent broware.
03:51 gmaxwell people building finance software, voting systems, etc. without spending 5 minutes thinking through possible failure modes and making trivial tweaks to mitigate risk.
03:52 Bet placed: 8 BTC for No on "Gold to top $1500 before 16 May" http://bitbet.us/bet/1106/ Odds: 8(Y):92(N) by coin, 11(Y):89(N) by weight. Total bet: 14.32038404 BTC. Current weight: 61,675.
03:52 Bet placed: 5.0099 BTC for No on "CLAM losing grip -> sells 0.0029 or lower before April 25th" http://bitbet.us/bet/1121/ Odds: 2(Y):98(N) by coin, 2(Y):98(N) by weight. Total bet: 5.16892952 BTC. Current weight: 94,065.
03:52 Bet placed: 2.5 BTC for No on "BTC to top $450 before 31st Mar" http://bitbet.us/bet/1113/ Odds: 11(Y):89(N) by coin, 12(Y):88(N) by weight. Total bet: 12.4553 BTC. Current weight: 46,647.
03:52 BingoBoingo The entire AJAX bullshit is a scam. All of that user facing javascript is just there to same them on the server bills
03:53 BingoBoingo !up gmaxwell
03:55 gmaxwell yea, well, I've given up yelling "get off my lawn" at people, seems the whole world wants to eat suppositories and other such acts of brillance; my patience in telling other people that they're wrong mostly ran out years ago.
03:58 punkman https://github.com/tedu/reop "a simple, semi-modern wannabe PGP clone"
03:58 assbot tedu/reop · GitHub ... ( http://bit.ly/1wbMask )
03:59 BingoBoingo punkman: He's got some really good ideas, but an elliptic curve? really?
04:00 punkman "it's gotta fit in twitter msg"
04:00 fluffypony Curve25519 is pretty great though
04:03 gmaxwell BingoBoingo: not sure why you'd fault that. Any _general_ improvement in ECC pretty much directly translates into an improvement for factoring; the converse is not true. And all the alternative schemes for _encryption_ have high overheads and complex security stories (though one could use two cryptosystems in parallel intelligently for long term security; I tried arguing for that w/ openpgp years
04:03 gmaxwell ago without success)
04:06 BingoBoingo gmaxwell: I'm just inclined towards giant RSA keys and presenting a hard problem. It's just I'd like the option. That and ECC is already keeping the money safe...
04:08 punkman gpg2 has ECC as well
04:08 BingoBoingo punkman: gpg2 isn't really shipped with anything though because the interface on gpg2 actually sucks
04:11 fluffypony I had to use gpg2 to recv-keys today, because gpg refused to (import filter bug)
04:14 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 7629 @ 0.00041791 = 3.1882 BTC [+]
04:15 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 11176 @ 0.00041834 = 4.6754 BTC [+] {2}
04:16 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 40845 @ 0.00041947 = 17.1333 BTC [+] {2}
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04:35 scoopbot New post on Qntra.net by cazalla: http://qntra.net/2015/02/us-offers-reward-for-capture-of-retailer-of-cryptolocker-related-botnet/
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04:59 punkman http://www.gemalto.com/press/Pages/Gemalto-presents-the-findings-of-its-investigations-into-the-alleged-hacking-of-SIM-card-encryption-keys.aspx
04:59 assbot Gemalto presents the findings of its investigations into the alleged hacking of SIM card encryption keysGemalto presents th ... ( http://bit.ly/1Dov6Vc )
05:05 BingoBoingo !up Vexual
05:08 punkman here's one for you vex https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG6WZoVfGao
05:08 assbot Νίκος Ξυλούρης - Αγρίμια Κι Αγριμάκια Μου - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1Dox87I )
05:09 Vexual Yikes
05:09 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 20482 @ 0.00041949 = 8.592 BTC [+]
05:14 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 4820 @ 0.00042706 = 2.0584 BTC [+]
05:19 BingoBoingo !up lrak
05:19 BingoBoingo !up rotarydialer
05:21 Vexual !up rotary dialder yor pre phreak hipster
05:21 Vexual Lol
05:22 Vexual Yeah yeah
05:22 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 5000 @ 0.00042779 = 2.139 BTC [+] {2}
05:24 Vexual Cool handle
05:25 Vexual Its prolly spelling something our
05:26 Vexual Out
05:27 Vexual Or not
05:28 Vexual Youre allowed to touch the button to verify u know
05:29 Vexual Short press
05:36 cazalla !up Vexual
05:37 punkman http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/02/17/state-department-spokeswoman-floats-jobs-as-answer-to-isis/
05:37 assbot State Department spokeswoman floats jobs as answer to ISIS | Fox News ... ( http://bit.ly/1DoCpfq )
05:38 Vexual Wot?
05:40 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 15700 @ 0.00042676 = 6.7001 BTC [-]
05:40 Vexual Next thing u know im not allowed to catch a train to turkey
05:44 punkman !up greenmon
05:45 Vexual Free passage for the masses I say
05:45 Vexual Even 12 yo gals
05:47 Vexual Identify of course
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07:30 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 15350 @ 0.00043335 = 6.6519 BTC [+]
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07:58 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 29828 @ 0.00041162 = 12.2778 BTC [-] {2}
08:09 danielpbarron height=226745 vs height=192318
08:12 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 15650 @ 0.00040663 = 6.3638 BTC [-]
08:14 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 14724 @ 0.0004142 = 6.0987 BTC [+]
08:21 BingoBoingo lol http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=7011041&cid=49125897
08:21 assbot Moxie Marlinspike: GPG Has Run Its Course - Slashdot ... ( http://bit.ly/1FscDXo )
08:22 danielpbarron gmaxwell> So if you want to block Olivier Janssens from getting approved; for example get miners to just block payments to 1MG6SSwK2qSASM2QgBez2g4YFe3ib4d2eL. << ah that's why i saw so many doublespends in my debug.log
08:33 danielpbarron lol i just sent some MEAT to that address
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09:22 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 34550 @ 0.00043569 = 15.0531 BTC [+] {3}
09:26 mats i am really disappointed in moxie
09:26 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 24350 @ 0.00043779 = 10.6602 BTC [+]
09:27 mats gpg does suck in a buncha usability ways, but then he goes on to address exactly zero actual problems
09:28 mats then goes on hn to say he doesn't know what the solution is but shills Open Whisper Systems, Mailpile, LEAP
09:30 punkman mats, indeed
09:32 mats as if Text Secure is usable, has a spec or docs like opengpg, as if mailpile doesn't shell out to a gpg binary
09:34 mats also deliberately misleading folks about widespread use with the quantity of keys on sks keyservers
09:35 mats like XXXmn people on e.g. linux don't rely on it daily
09:36 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 24600 @ 0.0004319 = 10.6247 BTC [-]
09:38 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 7000 @ 0.0004319 = 3.0233 BTC [-]
09:39 lobbes "Looking forward, however, I think of GPG as a glorious experiment that has run its course. The journalists who depend on it struggle with it and often mess up (“I send you the private key to communicate privately, right?”)" << lol, this doesn't sound like a problem with gpg. I'll never understand this 'hard-to-use' argument. Just take an afternoon and learn the fundamentals!
09:41 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 3753 @ 0.00043779 = 1.643 BTC [+]
09:42 mats https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9104188 >> mike_hearn "In the world of crypto, where we've learned so much, yes old means bad. Almost always... How many crypto geeks STILL spout rubbish about how the PKI is totally busted and the web of trust is the future? Way too many... The future of encrypted messaging is not GPG."
09:43 assbot GPG and Me | Hacker News ... ( http://bit.ly/17XtA0N )
09:43 mats he went full retard from sentence one. wat.
09:43 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 30397 @ 0.00044324 = 13.4732 BTC [+]
09:46 mats hearn and moxie start from the same premise, where tech and crypto are somehow going to paper over deficiencies in human relations and bring useful encryption to everyone everywhere, and somehow gpg is inadequate because it doesn't solve all problems they've imagined but don't actually present as problems to technically capable people
09:51 lobbes reminds me of the 'bitcoins for all the people in Africa' mantra, and if it can't support that it is somehow 'broken'
09:52 bitstein I got into it with moxie on twitter: https://twitter.com/Bitstein/status/570366873633566720
09:52 assbot I used to dream of a world where everyone would install GPG. Now I dream of a world where I can uninstall it: http://t.co/eRZ0hdlmgx
09:53 bitstein ^ That was the tweet I was responding to, not my own.
09:53 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 13400 @ 0.00044231 = 5.927 BTC [-]
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09:58 mats yeah seriously. installing Thunderbird is hard!
09:58 mats so try my Text Secure app on the Play Store.
09:58 mats ok guy.
09:59 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 6500 @ 0.00044324 = 2.8811 BTC [+]
10:00 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 16800 @ 0.00044324 = 7.4464 BTC [+]
10:02 jurov http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2x3s8h/bitcoin_foundation_runoff_voting_i_just_went/
10:02 assbot Bitcoin Foundation run-off voting - I just went through the process and here to help : Bitcoin ... ( http://bit.ly/17Xy5sj )
10:03 jurov seems they built it on top of obamacare
10:03 jurov "After confirming your yes/no choice you will be looking for a way to get back to the other candidates to vote for them."
10:17 lobbes Speaking of redditards.. some additional lulz: http://newsletter.8layertech.com/?p=723
10:17 assbot Portable Bitcoin ATM Made by Filipino Students | OPEN NEWS ... ( http://bit.ly/17XBB5Q )
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10:33 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 26971 @ 0.00042321 = 11.4144 BTC [-]
10:35 thestringpuller ls
10:35 thestringpuller oops
10:37 thestringpuller bitstein: re: gpg << "GPG is not what consumers have come to expect" is what I'm seeing here.
10:38 BingoBoingo Consumers have driven computing too long.
10:39 asciilifeform marlinspike << shitgnome and 'do-ocrat'
10:39 mats some of the hn comments are, 'lets make gpg as usable as facebook:
10:39 asciilifeform i've had a mild revulsion for him for as long as known about him
10:39 asciilifeform but now can finally pour flondor cement
10:39 mircea_popescu name is vaguely familiar.
10:40 bitstein thestringpuller: I liked Pierre's comment: "Everything must be candy crush UX with JavaScript." https://twitter.com/Pierre_Rochard/status/570412801908477952
10:42 thestringpuller asciilifeform: but now can finally pour flondor cement << brutal. you sure you don't want to be a mobster? :D
10:42 mike_c asciilifeform, why have you always had slight revulsion? I used to think better of him, but this article is useless. poorly written rant with no suggestions.
10:42 bitstein asciilifeform: What I posted was the important part.
10:42 mircea_popescu in a dick tracy sort of way
10:43 asciilifeform thestringpuller: cement << the relevant line is from ru poet vysotsky, 'Я тебя не трону, а душе зарою. И прикажу в залить цементом, чтобы не разрыть.' -- 'i won't touch you, but in my soul i'll bury you, and order cement poured so as not to ever dig up'
10:44 asciilifeform mike_c: elsewhere he suggests many things, all of them quite zimmermanesque
10:44 thestringpuller old zimmerman or new zimmerman?
10:44 asciilifeform new.
10:45 thestringpuller reminds me of my current CEO, "Blah blah blah ENCRYPTION AS A SERVICE, blah blah blah. THE FUTURE." *applause from dumb audience here*
10:47 mike_c phil zimmerman is a bad guy?
10:47 asciilifeform mike_c: as of 2010 or so
10:47 mircea_popescu nowadays ;/
10:47 mike_c how.. disappointing
10:47 asciilifeform mike_c: pushes closed-source turds for iPnohe as 'ultra-secure' etc.
10:47 mircea_popescu very. in there with bvuffett.
10:47 mircea_popescu my heart was the size of a rice grain when djikstra got linked yest.
10:48 asciilifeform dijkstra never betrayed
10:49 thestringpuller mike_c: disappointing << people are disappointing no? otherwise we would not need WoT...
10:49 mircea_popescu right. neither did zimmerman until he one day started derping about "dark phone"
10:49 mircea_popescu actually, i recall mentioning here that "wtf, this guy publicly takes pride in having lost his gpg key ?" a while back
10:49 asciilifeform dijkstra died as lived - honest man
10:50 mircea_popescu thankfully.
10:50 thestringpuller dat balmer syndrome...one day you're just "Developer developer developers" sweating profusely on a stage and you don't know why.
10:51 asciilifeform this is why among the most brilliant jp inventions is the seppuku rite. (and, in euro world, the lesser roman version thereof)
10:51 mircea_popescu assbot: Kerry: Moscow lying 'to my face' over Ukraine << roflmao. fuckwit lost some election long long ago, imagines what this does is put him in charge of Barbaria ? instead of you know, Usia ?
10:51 asciilifeform instead of derping like headless chicken for decades, publicly dump out guts - if can make a statement with it, so much the better
10:52 mircea_popescu same al gore schtick. "what's at state in a us presidential election is who gets rome and who gets constantinople"
10:52 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: actually he's reichsminister
10:53 mircea_popescu that's not the point. the point is, who the fuck ever heard of the attitude.
10:53 mircea_popescu "moscow" "lying" "to his face" ? wtf is he, supervisor in chief ? dad ?
10:53 asciilifeform it's the absolute standard usian 'the planet is our banana farm' attitude
10:53 mircea_popescu but he's a LOSER.
10:53 mike_c moxie's sekrit thingy is open source though. that's better than somewhat silent circle
10:53 mircea_popescu you know ? he's arguably not even PART of the usianistan.
10:54 mircea_popescu decimation: "Oh I'm totally an awesome diplomat, look at my years of usg experience!" << this lol.
10:54 asciilifeform sec. of state
10:54 asciilifeform definitely 'part', no ?
10:54 mircea_popescu were i putin i'd put something in pravda.us "Kerry is so inept I would fire him if I ran the US."
10:55 mircea_popescu asciilifeform i dun see it.
10:55 asciilifeform read 'foreign minister,' to civilized folks
10:55 asciilifeform our own little ribbentrop
10:55 mircea_popescu why would anyone still receive him after something like this i dun understand ?
10:56 mircea_popescu next he shows up have him detained at border for 36 hours, let him go with a 10 year interdict.
10:56 mircea_popescu mats: give it another four years and all the useful combat vets will have exited the service out of sheer disgust << almost there anyway, yeh.
10:57 asciilifeform moxie's sekrit thingy is open source though << ahahahaha lol. open just like openssl
10:58 mike_c fine. i will deduct two points from his wot rating in my head. that's too bad.
11:02 asciilifeform 'I simply asked him -- in a private email -- if there was a signature for Convergence someplace because I didn't see any online. He accused me of being "inflammatory" and stated it was necessary to "take a leap of faith" (i.e. download and run it without verification). This was back in 2012, mind you. He appeared to be oddly anti-PGP back then, too. Frankly, after that I had no appetite for any more of his, erm, style and forg
11:02 asciilifeform ot about Convergence. Years later, I had to abandon DoNotTrackMe (by a Moxie-run company, Abine) nee 'Blur' for Ghostery instead when the former got an update that kept hogging the CPU. An email to Abine just yielded a response to keep updating Blur, but the problem never went away.'
11:02 asciilifeform ^ pasted here for the record
11:02 asciilifeform because gigglets like this have a way of 'disappearing' from forums
11:03 ben_vulpes "An agile, distributed, and secure strategy for replacing Certificate Authorities" << agile, hah.
11:06 mircea_popescu lol good idea.
11:07 asciilifeform thing is, the man knows what he's doing. not 'useful idiot', he. is including the zombie horde of 'people' for whom 'gpg is hard' in order to reach his conclusion, rather than reached his conclusion because useful idiot and automatically included them
11:07 asciilifeform *including in his reasoning
11:10 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: http://www.noblis.org << usg dept. of btcdiddlery - incidentally.
11:10 assbot Noblis Home ... ( http://bit.ly/1BtF5Li )
11:10 asciilifeform had various mildly smoking guns for this in stash for a while, now add the fact of them crawling specific pages on me site
11:11 asciilifeform (why these folks insist on publicly advertising this act, is beyond me)
11:12 thestringpuller !s codeclimate
11:12 assbot 0 results for 'codeclimate' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=codeclimate
11:12 BingoBoingo Maybe they figure everyone's depreciated reading /var/
11:12 asciilifeform i suggest that everyone check their server logs for these clowns
11:13 thestringpuller mircea_popescu: http://codeclimate.com << the non WoT version of http://trilema.com/2012/probably-the-hottest-business-idea-of-the-moment-in-btc/
11:16 asciilifeform take with grain of salt, but folks fairly deep in the belly of the beast have suggested that 'noblis' is where the handprints from 'bitcoin atm' crap, pseudonyms from 'changetip' chumpatron, 'aml/kyc' idiocy, etc. all ends up.
11:16 danielpbarron huh, i think he deleted my comment
11:16 asciilifeform linked up with blockchain as well as they can
11:17 PeterL "The best way to go is probably fixed fee + per line fee or something." I like this, encourages less LoC bloat
11:18 mircea_popescu asciilifeform noblis ? could be incidental.
11:18 PeterL ^from the trilema post just linked
11:18 mircea_popescu they do a lot of contractor work crawling thre web
11:18 asciilifeform PeterL: the notion that the folks paying are getting -anything- other than lighter wallet - is a laugh
11:19 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: could be.
11:20 asciilifeform but a fella with 'loose lips' fingered them as where-nsa-actually-has-the-work-done.
11:20 asciilifeform again, i'm 'selling this for same price as bought'
11:21 jurov so you imply nsa is behind btcatm anad changetip?
11:21 asciilifeform http://www.noblis-nsp.com << diddlamatics division
11:21 assbot Noblis NSP ... ( http://bit.ly/1EQwAHt )
11:21 asciilifeform jurov: 'behind' is wrong word here
11:22 asciilifeform the way usg contracting works, folks eager-to-please get preemptively down on their knees
11:22 asciilifeform and offer services
11:22 mircea_popescu "behind" lol. btcatm has to report right ?
11:22 danielpbarron i think my comment was something like "It's possible to achieve 'Perfect forward secrecy' with GPG; you're just retarded. And if it isn't brain damage, I can only assume you have been enlisted on to lizard hitler's payroll"
11:23 asciilifeform idk if these folks run the phillipino content farms, but they are almost certainly the shepherds of the usg db with palmprints linked to blockchain tx from idiots
11:23 ben_vulpes asciilifeform: "diddlematics" << i never figured kako for a collaborator...
11:23 asciilifeform ?
11:24 jurov lol, like one can speculate i have created coinbr to preemptively get down on nsa or some such
11:24 ben_vulpes it's a pun.
11:24 asciilifeform jurov: coinbr doesn't collect fingerprints iirc
11:24 asciilifeform or passport photos
11:24 asciilifeform neither does kako's bet machine
11:25 asciilifeform this is how you tell the difference. but this is elementary alphabet to #b-a folks
11:26 jurov i can see them trying to. only by sheer luck is what i'm doing covered as "financial service" atm
11:26 danielpbarron assbot collects fingerprints
11:26 ben_vulpes jurov: "preemptively go down" << ftfy :P
11:26 jurov so that i don't need to mess with eu vat
11:26 nubbins` incidentally, was there ever a qntra article about cavirtex shutting down?
11:27 nubbins` they say they're shutting because they realized their customer db was compromised at some point in the past
11:27 jurov but some day i can see them going "financial service? yea we got some regulation for you"
11:27 mircea_popescu asciilifeform: this is simply what usg... is << i actually have a more psychotropic theory. basically, on some subconscious level, us knows it's become uss. and what it wants is, the validation of "well i didn't do anything useful, but at least the stupid thing i did i did WELL". this to be obtained, in the way such nonsense works, by confronting the symbolic representative thereof and "winning".
11:27 PeterL http://qntra.net/2015/02/cavirtex-shutting-down-withdrawals-temporarily-disabled/ nubbins`
11:27 assbot CAVIRTEX Shutting Down, Withdrawals "Temporarily Disabled" | Qntra.net ... ( http://bit.ly/1EQxAva )
11:27 nubbins` which sorta 100% agrees with everyone in #bitcoin-cad, including me, saying we started getting mysterious emails with .jar attachments around this time
11:27 nubbins` PeterL ok!
11:27 mircea_popescu notice that the us diplomacy is nowhere nearly as inept handling china. arguably russia is more of a threat tho, at least immediately.
11:27 nubbins` PeterL they knew about the intrusion a year or two ago
11:27 mircea_popescu chinese politburo isn't going around publicly and internationally humiliating us president with a monthly frequency.
11:27 nubbins` let it coast until now
11:28 mircea_popescu heh. so why now then ?
11:28 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 9115 @ 0.00041835 = 3.8133 BTC [-]
11:29 nubbins` that's the q
11:29 asciilifeform china isn't in a deathcage match against rest of the planet trying for 200 yrs. to render its population for fat and to more easily get at the minerals
11:30 mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-02-2015#1032973 << win.
11:30 assbot Logged on 25-02-2015 07:05:44; cazalla: mmm home made potato gnocchi with muh tomato/chilli sauce (both from garden) and chorizo.. just missing a beer :\
11:30 mircea_popescu asciilifeform you think ?
11:30 mircea_popescu maybe you dunno china.
11:30 asciilifeform or rather, it is
11:30 asciilifeform but unnoticed in the shadow of the ru match
11:30 mircea_popescu lol. they have no trees and now cows. think about it.
11:31 nubbins` PeterL https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=218435.msg8948075#msg8948075
11:31 assbot Official CaVirtex.com Thread ... ( http://bit.ly/1EQy98g )
11:31 PeterL nobody cares what china does with its peasants
11:31 asciilifeform actually what cn has is precisely bipedal wealth
11:31 nubbins` sept '14
11:31 asciilifeform folks who are still willing to assemble machinery for a penny a day
11:31 asciilifeform without toilet breaks
11:31 asciilifeform this is, by some indications, a non-renewable resource that's getting burned up rather quickly
11:31 asciilifeform possibly even faster than the ones ordinarily spoken of
11:32 nubbins` peak meat
11:32 nubbins` hey, remember "peak oil"?
11:32 asciilifeform thing is, assembling, e.g., pc mobos, isn't mining U at butugychag. you can't get quality performance at bayonet point
11:32 mircea_popescu pack meat. lawl.
11:32 asciilifeform so the 'willing' part is key
11:33 mircea_popescu asciilifeform i think this difference is spurious.
11:33 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: if it were spurious, africa would be the real china
11:33 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 26900 @ 0.00041439 = 11.1471 BTC [-]
11:33 mircea_popescu no, it wouldn't. africa, as unfortunately and politically unpleasant that sounds, probably sucks because genetics.
11:34 mircea_popescu otherwise, recall the zek research centers.
11:34 asciilifeform ^ not secret
11:34 PeterL somebody just has to get the Africans organized and industrialized
11:34 mircea_popescu how exactly different from us research you think that is ?
11:34 mircea_popescu PeterL the problem is : africa is essentially "they who stayed". those always suck.
11:34 mircea_popescu it's been selected for 250k years for suckage. no fixing that.
11:34 asciilifeform zek sharashkas is essentially the same thing as where i live now
11:34 asciilifeform so i'd know something about.
11:34 mircea_popescu asciilifeform and no bayonet ?
11:34 asciilifeform 'carrot'
11:34 mircea_popescu pointed carrot.
11:35 asciilifeform what's the carrot for sitting at conveyor 12h straight with no toilet break ?
11:35 mircea_popescu i dunno, i don't specialize in that shit.
11:36 asciilifeform the carrot, as far as i understand, is that it looks like a great deal next to your grandfather's rotting in rice paddy
11:36 nubbins` <+PeterL> somebody just has to get the Africans organized and industrialized <<< surely external help running the show is the path to self sufficiency
11:36 mircea_popescu lol
11:36 asciilifeform the essential ingredient is that your grandfather had to have rotted in the rice.
11:36 asciilifeform if instead he drove 'mercedes' - then not so hot.
11:36 mircea_popescu "hey, let's make it into the south pre 1830, then they can be invaded by lincoln v2.0 and have detroit!"
11:36 punkman PeterL: somebody just has to get the Africans organized and industrialized << China's all over it, but they might have to import a billion chinese workers
11:37 asciilifeform china imports own workers sop.
11:37 asciilifeform this, incidentally, was supposed to happen in crimea
11:37 mircea_popescu heh
11:37 asciilifeform before the change-of-plans.
11:37 asciilifeform !s china crimea
11:37 assbot 3 results for 'china crimea' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=china+crimea
11:38 asciilifeform they've developed an american-style agricultural practice for use in leased foreign lands, as well
11:38 PeterL nubbins`: I am not saying self-sufficiency, I am saying rivaling china for output. I also have no idea how one would go about doing it, just saying there are lots of people in Africa which could be used as a resource for the right person
11:38 asciilifeform that is quite like 'strip mining'
11:38 asciilifeform PeterL: the quickest cure for this notion is to try it
11:38 asciilifeform no need to go to the continent, even
11:38 nubbins` PeterL no doubt. worth noting that "rivaling china for output" is not necessarily a positive
11:39 asciilifeform try the local immigrants
11:39 PeterL you want me to go over to Detroit and organize the populace into something not a worthless mess?
11:39 asciilifeform ^ example
11:40 PeterL "I have big plans, BIG PLANS!, as mayor I will accomplish AMAZING things, with your help!"
11:40 assbot AMAZING COMPANY!
11:41 PeterL my brother works in the Detroit Public Schools, from his anecdotes I have little hope things will change there.
11:41 mircea_popescu PeterL tis is rank nonsense, you know.
11:41 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: back to the cn phactory gurlz, it's an open economic question whether a particular one can physically generate enough wealth to pay for 'carroting' it
11:41 chetty put a big fence around Detroit and come back in a hundred years
11:42 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: it's rather like how you cannot have an engine use more energy for, e.g., alternator, than burning fuel yields
11:42 mircea_popescu asciilifeform the idea is that you have someone trading you 1 joule of fuel for half joule of electricity.
11:42 mircea_popescu that's how these economies always close.
11:42 asciilifeform !up gabriel_laddel
11:42 gabriel_laddel ty
11:42 gabriel_laddel ;; google chinese eat dogs, cats
11:42 gribble 9 Countries That Eat Cats and Dogs | The Daily Meal: <http://www.thedailymeal.com/9-countries-eat-cats-and-dogs/11414>; Dog meat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_meat>; Cat meat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_meat>
11:43 asciilifeform chinese eat anything that can be digested
11:43 asciilifeform (and attempt plenty of things that can't)
11:43 gabriel_laddel it seems to me that if the west would just fuck off and let China have Africa everything will go swimmingly.
11:43 asciilifeform recently there was a widely-copied newspaper piece re: tiger farms
11:43 punkman http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutter_oil
11:43 assbot Gutter oil - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ... ( http://bit.ly/1EQApfQ )
11:43 asciilifeform yes, eat them
11:43 asciilifeform aha gutter oil
11:44 gabriel_laddel they don't have the same sensibilities, being a different people (*gasp*).
11:44 asciilifeform best thing to prepare fresh tiger in
11:44 mircea_popescu gabriel_laddel that's the plan. it won't work, but anyway.
11:44 mircea_popescu time for some non-white colonisation failures after all.
11:44 gabriel_laddel it won't work.. why?
11:44 asciilifeform some non-white colonisation failures << jp got there first
11:44 mircea_popescu why. because shit doesn't work.
11:46 gabriel_laddel http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/korea.htm
11:46 assbot BEING A GRACIOUS WINNER ... ( http://bit.ly/1EQASi7 )
11:49 punkman http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/save-the-tiger-the-animals-bred-for-bones-on-chinas-tiger-farms-9636537.html
11:49 assbot Save the Tiger: The animals bred for bones on China’s tiger farms - Commentators - Voices - The Independent ... ( http://bit.ly/1EQBgwS )
11:49 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 21600 @ 0.00041432 = 8.9493 BTC [-] {2}
11:49 punkman apparently not for meat
11:49 punkman "The Xionsen Wine Company sells bottles of eight-year-old tiger bone wine, also fortified with tiger penis, for around £200"
11:50 PeterL they make the wine from crushed bones of 8-yo tigers?
11:51 NewLiberty I don't want to know what they did to the tiger to encourage that kind of fortifying
11:51 mircea_popescu no, they crush baby bones let them sit for 8 years
11:52 mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-02-2015#1032999 << somehow... we were aware
11:52 assbot Logged on 25-02-2015 08:22:52; gmaxwell: man y'all will get a kick out of the latest foundation lol-event. They have some _utterly_ braindead 'blockchain voting' scheme for their board vote run off (gotta love changing voting infrastructure mid election for election integrity)
11:54 gabriel_laddel http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/property/pictures/9888398/Overhead-photos-of-cramped-apartments-in-Hong-Kong.html?frame=2489576
11:54 assbot Overhead photos of cramped apartments in Hong Kong - Telegraph ... ( http://bit.ly/1EQCbgN )
11:55 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 15488 @ 0.00041373 = 6.4079 BTC [-] {2}
11:58 mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-02-2015#1033036 << it implies the awkward situation where he's been an idiot, doesn't know how to beg forgiveness, represents instead that hey, at least claiming /his/ taste is somehow involved. at least that protects ego a little.
11:58 assbot Logged on 25-02-2015 08:49:12; gmaxwell: cazalla: not my taste doesn't necessarily imply an active dislike.
11:59 mircea_popescu !up Phraust
12:01 mircea_popescu "the alleged hacking of SIM card encryption keys" eh ?
12:02 mircea_popescu assbot: State Department spokeswoman floats jobs as answer to ISIS | http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=23-02-2015#1030497
12:02 assbot Logged on 23-02-2015 15:20:03; mircea_popescu: the ONLY way i'd have them fighting overseas is if congress approves this plan whereby a) all territory we step on gets granted territory status ; b) soldiers once veteranized are rewarded in homesteads there, and HAVE TO marry local
12:03 Phraust thanks.
12:04 mircea_popescu yw
12:04 mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-02-2015#1033119 << that may not be exactly misleading, it may just be he spoke too early. maybe the plan is to pop the sks system, and if they put a little pressure who exactly is going to stand up to it ?
12:04 assbot Logged on 25-02-2015 14:34:59; mats: also deliberately misleading folks about widespread use with the quantity of keys on sks keyservers
12:04 mircea_popescu (we, of course, which prolly means we're redoing the sks too)
12:06 PeterL add that to the #b-a todo list?
12:06 mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-02-2015#1033123 << yes but social media crowd "has no time". somehow they can jump the moment the damned phone blink, but to spend an hour to think quietly with a book ? not possibru.
12:06 assbot Logged on 25-02-2015 14:39:34; lobbes: "Looking forward, however, I think of GPG as a glorious experiment that has run its course. The journalists who depend on it struggle with it and often mess up (“I send you the private key to communicate privately, right?”)" << lol, this doesn't sound like a problem with gpg. I'll never understand this 'hard-to-use' argument. Just take an afternoon and learn the fundamentals!
12:06 mircea_popescu "wouldja like brainfries with that ?"
12:07 mircea_popescu PeterL not just yet.
12:07 mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-02-2015#1033125 << what we've learneds is to take the usg party at the opposite of its word.
12:07 assbot Logged on 25-02-2015 14:42:59; mats: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9104188 >> mike_hearn "In the world of crypto, where we've learned so much, yes old means bad. Almost always... How many crypto geeks STILL spout rubbish about how the PKI is totally busted and the web of trust is the future? Way too many... The future of encrypted messaging is not GPG."
12:07 mircea_popescu but that quote is fucking epic.
12:08 BingoBoingo but, how could the chief scientusk of BitcoinXT be wrong?
12:09 mircea_popescu ;;later tell bitstein in a purely ops perspective, it's always a bad idea to link those you disagree with. replace with a link to something you agree to. @moxie knows what he wrote.
12:09 gribble The operation succeeded.
12:09 mircea_popescu wait wut ?
12:09 nubbins` today i learned it is legal to sell and serve dog meat in canada
12:10 mircea_popescu nubbins` it's often enough eatne in spain.
12:10 mircea_popescu anyway, the speed at which the entire world seems to be coagulating around us is nothing short of impressive.
12:10 BingoBoingo mircea_popescu: BitcoinXT is the hearn foundation Bitcoin fork which has all kinds of features even Gavin rejected because they make nodes incredibly more DoS attackable
12:11 mircea_popescu that b-a drives "biutcoin foundation" policy is not even remarkable. that assets like the marlinspike dood are thrown in the fray to try and prevent a wot based republic however...
12:11 mircea_popescu at this rate indiancandy1 is getting replaced with madonna on the short term.
12:11 nubbins` mildly amusing to see this phoundation push for full nodes after it started being worked on in here
12:12 mircea_popescu BingoBoingo oh that lol. eh, nobody cares.
12:12 mircea_popescu nubbins` rather.
12:12 mircea_popescu BingoBoingo and you know, if you follow the course of events, #1 we went to anti-uspoettering debvian chan
12:13 mircea_popescu next week ? ra ra ra "no wot plox"
12:16 BingoBoingo It is amusing. Still when it comes time to replace GPG it will look more like https://github.com/tedu/reop than any Moxenslit iPerson thing (except... with RSA support and done in ADA/Common Lisp)
12:16 assbot tedu/reop · GitHub ... ( http://bit.ly/1EQFV1Z )
12:18 chetty http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/21310/
12:18 assbot ‘Activism’ class at University of Michigan teaches capitalism should be ‘overthrown’ ... ( http://bit.ly/1EQGdWA )
12:18 mircea_popescu but by all means.
12:24 mircea_popescu in unrelated news, chetty just found a layered bug in the stack eulora uses. one bug prevented the functionality (wrong pointer reference) ; the other bug prevented the previous bug from crashing every single machine all the time.
12:25 mircea_popescu one suspects this is what counts for fixing.
12:30 BingoBoingo http://qntra.net/2015/02/ny-environmental-protection-raid-drives-suicide/
12:30 assbot NY "Environmental Protection" Raid Drives Suicide | Qntra.net ... ( http://bit.ly/1EQIiBX )
12:32 mircea_popescu o.O
12:32 mircea_popescu til internet dictionaries define indigence as "the state of being poor".
12:32 mircea_popescu this is exactly wrong. indigence is the state of being worthless.
12:34 bitstein mircea_popescu: Good advice, thanks.
12:36 mircea_popescu "That a public education system could disgorge untold legions of literate, numerate, and motivated graduates is beyond their collective comprehension. How unlucky the Caucasoid races are to have all the kids with learning disabilities."
12:36 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 100850 @ 0.00042255 = 42.6142 BTC [+] {3}
12:37 mircea_popescu bwahahaha al is pretty cool.
12:37 mircea_popescu http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/korea.htm
12:37 assbot BEING A GRACIOUS WINNER ... ( http://bit.ly/1EQJvJj )
12:38 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: gonna guess it was a 'suicide' rather than suicide
12:39 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: or there'd be at least a few dead polizei
12:39 asciilifeform or what, he kept pistol with exactly one bullet, like a cosmonaut ?
12:40 BingoBoingo asciilifeform: Reportedly did it in a locked bathroom with a .357 magnum
12:40 mircea_popescu asciilifeform not everyone's the outgoing kind.
12:43 mircea_popescu http://41.media.tumblr.com/3be524ce48d460c8ac02c7233198d107/tumblr_mvahj3b29T1qhisfxo1_1280.jpg << pony!
12:43 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1EQKBoD )
12:45 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 26012 @ 0.00041268 = 10.7346 BTC [-]
12:45 mircea_popescu "There just seems to be something particular about people who try GPG and conclude that it’s a realistic path to introducing private communication in their lives for casual correspondence with strangers. Increasingly, it’s a club that I don’t want to belong to anymore." << well... granted, eh.
12:46 mircea_popescu the oil and the water are separating, and no welfarist state-sponsored mixer can do anything abotu the accelerating rate.
12:47 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 11038 @ 0.00040978 = 4.5232 BTC [-]
12:47 mircea_popescu "Worse, it turns out that nobody else found all this stuff to be fascinating. Even though GPG has been around for almost 20 years, there are only ~50,000 keys in the “strong set,” and less than 4 million keys have ever been published to the SKS keyserver pool ever. By today’s standards, that’s a shockingly small user base for a month of activity, much less 20 years."
12:47 mircea_popescu "nobody else" as in, all people are equal, getting a 50k elite out of a 4mn aspirational set out of a 1bn population is somehow unexpected and un-natural.
12:49 PeterL do people use keys not submitted to key servers?
12:50 mircea_popescu "What we have
12:51 mircea_popescu Today, journalists use GPG to communicate with sources securely, activists use it to coordinate world wide, and software companies use it to help secure their infrastructure. Some really heroic people have put in an enormous amount of effort to get us here, at substantial personal cost, and with little support.
12:51 mircea_popescu Looking forward, however, I think of GPG as a very dangerous technology that really has to go away if we're serious about making it impossible for journalists, their sources, activists and other enemies of the state to survive in a NSA/TSA/ETC-only world."
12:51 mircea_popescu PeterL sure, there's nothing but convenience requiring it.
12:51 PeterL so that number of users could be understated
12:51 mircea_popescu as a side note : secure comunication via gpg works as follows :
12:51 mircea_popescu 1) you find the public key of the public interface you wish to use
12:52 mircea_popescu 2) you generate - SECURELY (see airgap guide etc) a new keypair for yourself
12:52 mircea_popescu 3) you send mail to 1 using 2 and including pubkey for your new key.
12:52 mircea_popescu this can be repeated as many times as you wish, and it can also be used as an otr process (just make new key for each exchange).
12:54 danielpbarron for the logs, perfect forward secrecy ^
12:54 mircea_popescu half way, because if the public interface is compromised it still sees all your emails.
12:55 mircea_popescu "Even the projects that attempt to use it as a dependency struggle." heh
12:55 danielpbarron the people throwing this term around are advocates of some fully automated process that runs on their phone, so...
12:58 mircea_popescu http://www.thoughtcrime.org/blog/gpg-and-me/#comment-1875102607
12:58 assbot Moxie Marlinspike >> Blog >> GPG And Me ... ( http://bit.ly/1vzhAhb )
12:58 mircea_popescu disqus eh
13:00 thestringpuller GPG is bad SSL good!
13:00 thestringpuller ^- the new propaganda on encryption
13:01 thestringpuller d00d from FBI wants to outlaw GPG in US (again)
13:01 mircea_popescu doh.
13:02 mircea_popescu and still pushing the pki ridiculousness.
13:02 mircea_popescu "oh, it works."
13:02 mircea_popescu "it just works!!! "
13:02 mircea_popescu i wonder if i could sell some cars to these idiots that are really wooden crates with lcd screen inside.
13:02 mircea_popescu "takes you wherever you want to go! not really..."
13:02 mircea_popescu "but it's just as good and much easier to use than a car!11"
13:03 PeterL and gets better gas mileage!
13:03 mircea_popescu way.
13:03 thestringpuller the sad thing is you could do that and prob get bonus at some firm in the US
13:03 PeterL fully electric even!
13:04 mircea_popescu plus, it prevents not only traffic accidents (leading cause of death!) but also, this one time, this guy used a car and was robbed!
13:05 danielpbarron http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-01-2015#989461
13:05 assbot Logged on 23-01-2015 21:26:58; asciilifeform: the fastest, thickest, most luxurious car is --- not having to go places.
13:05 mircea_popescu i should probably ycombinate a start-up to deploy tons of these in old warehouses across the us
13:05 mircea_popescu get some fed grants for it, idiots will prolly go in the box just to be different...
13:05 mircea_popescu soon enough a "competitor" to gm has been born.
13:06 mircea_popescu and prolly have more market cap than gm, as far as that goes.
13:06 PeterL and politicians will promise "an MP-car for every garage!"
13:07 mircea_popescu well... 200sqft "studio", as the case may be.
13:07 PeterL heh, I like that name, because when you say it MP-car sounds alot like empty-car
13:07 mircea_popescu lol so it does.
13:09 BingoBoingo MT Car, by Mircea Trabant company
13:09 mircea_popescu lol
13:10 mircea_popescu http://33.media.tumblr.com/2bdf04c34b7f80baf2346fd55e3c61ec/tumblr_n2l0330B3N1toca06o1_400.gif << this is one brave babe.
13:10 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1vzjs9P )
13:13 jurov dunno better comparison to pki would be a car without steering whell, steered by usg
13:13 jurov which there already are some
13:14 thestringpuller lol self driving car in future prevents you from going to certain places.
13:14 thestringpuller "I want to go to the strip club" "Cannot drive to that destination"
13:14 mircea_popescu nah, because a) the usg doesn't care to steer you a particular direction. it only wants you to not move - it's a bureaucracy after all, it has no resources to deal with change, nor can change mean anything but it's ass ; b) the illusion of free wheeling is what's important.
13:14 chetty and delivers you to the gasenwagen when the time comes
13:14 chetty http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/414380/fcc-chair-refuses-testify-congress-ahead-net-neutrality-vote-andrew-johnson
13:14 assbot National Review ... ( http://bit.ly/1vzki6g )
13:15 mircea_popescu lol you can do that now ?
13:15 mircea_popescu "o hey, i refuse to testify. fu."
13:15 thestringpuller chetty: or turns into a gasenwagen! gas just starts spewing out.
13:15 chetty well I guess they still sorta respect the 5th amendment, might be the only one left
13:16 thestringpuller except when you exercise it they just throw you into a hole
13:16 mircea_popescu uh... his family is somehow involved ?
13:18 chetty well this fcc chair was against net nuetrality a while back, then he had a meeting with ?? and 332 pags of new regulation (stamped secret) appeared. You figure it out
13:20 mircea_popescu so basically, no high speed for the us. ever.
13:20 mircea_popescu being humiliated by shitholes like romania apparently isn't going to be a temporary situation.
13:22 chetty well I guess the usaians need to learn from the greeks how make mesh nets
13:24 mircea_popescu no see, the socialised medicine is just good enopugh to prevent an actually useful, individual solution.
13:25 mircea_popescu it's how africa's being "helped" : ban the perfectly fine fillament lightbulbs just as they get to where they could maybe make some, trickle in a little food so most people don't want to work.
13:25 mircea_popescu same thing will be with the fcc internet : just fast enough people don't start making an independent one.
13:26 mircea_popescu asciilifeform 's "gravity hole" is a constructive element, not a random occurence.
13:30 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 25100 @ 0.00042433 = 10.6507 BTC [+]
13:32 chetty same thing will be with the fcc internet : just fast enough people don't start making an independent one.// speed will not be the only issue, think china
13:34 BingoBoingo But the FCC internet will give users Fat Pipes, to better DoS real people with.
13:37 chetty anybody tried raising pigeons?
13:37 ben_vulpes ;;seen pigeons
13:37 gribble pigeons was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 30 weeks, 3 days, 1 hour, 40 minutes, and 0 seconds ago: <pigeons> so far that seems accurate
13:48 jurov lol....guess using drones is cheaper than pigeons by now
13:48 BingoBoingo !up ascii_field
13:48 ascii_field ty BingoBoingo!
13:49 ascii_field mircea_popescu: high speed << not actually a major problem in the american population centres
13:49 ascii_field it's the other stuff.
13:49 ascii_field (e.g. i get ~100 megabaud and can get 500 if paid a little more)
13:51 ascii_field decimation: how can any kind of signal magically compromise a stu? << no magic necessary, just ordinary heterodyne
13:54 mircea_popescu ascii_field not so far.
13:54 mircea_popescu however, romania is, like all of asia, on gbps sorta thing
13:54 ascii_field for ~1/5 the cost, probably, yes
13:54 mircea_popescu usual 30 bux a month
13:55 ascii_field but decent bandwidth isn't this totally unattainable thing in gringolandia
13:55 ascii_field just costs a few times mroe
13:55 ascii_field *more
13:56 ascii_field (and price goes up geometrically with distance from major 'icbm targets')
13:56 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 24231 @ 0.00042433 = 10.2819 BTC [+]
13:56 mircea_popescu more's the point : it won't stay that way.
13:56 mircea_popescu no argument that health care was attainable in the us cca 2010. just cost a liuttle more.
13:56 ascii_field !s internet of the future
13:56 assbot 8 results for 'internet of the future' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=internet+of+the+future
13:56 mircea_popescu it will not be, for any sum, by 2020.
13:57 ascii_field 'For a goat may butt, and a worm may sting, / And a child will sometimes stand; / But a poor dead soldier of the King / Can never lift a hand.' (herr kipling)
13:57 ascii_field don't expect much of anything from usa 2020.
14:00 ascii_field orlov, interestingly, argued that high speed net is key in the modern usg 'panem et circenses' program and will chug along long after problems with supplying the basics of life have begun
14:00 ascii_field but it'll be the 'internet of the future' rather than what we're using now.
14:01 mircea_popescu actually intermittent low bw internet would be better for that purpose. keep the redditard busy
14:01 BingoBoingo "Netflix"
14:03 mircea_popescu ah there is that.
14:04 BingoBoingo "Streaming Video" and online gaming are the USG approved application of surplus bandwidth
14:05 ascii_field don't forget streaming audio from microphones chump voluntarily keeps in the house, car, etc
14:07 BingoBoingo Well, has to go both directions
14:11 BingoBoingo !up BayAreaCoins
14:11 BingoBoingo !up jborkl
14:11 BingoBoingo !up felipelalli
14:11 BayAreaCoins Thanks Bingo
14:12 BayAreaCoins MP do you plan on pulling the CLAM bet on BitBet or is it going to run its course? If you do cancel it I assume the coins will just be sent to the payment addresses?
14:13 mircea_popescu which bet is this ?
14:13 BayAreaCoins MP, https://bitbet.us/bet/1121/clam-losing-grip-sells-0-0029-or-lower/
14:13 assbot BitBet - CLAM losing grip -> sells 0.0029 or lower before April 25th :: 0.18 B (3%) on Yes, 5.08 B (97%) on No | closing in 1 month 3 weeks | weight: 93`348 (100`000 to 10) ... ( http://bit.ly/1Dqxbjc )
14:14 mircea_popescu its gonna run.
14:14 jborkl sup bitches
14:14 punkman "144 Universities Warn Congress Pending Patent Legislation Would Harm U.S. Innovation System" http://www.aau.edu/policy/article.aspx?id=15923
14:14 assbot Association of American Universities ... ( http://bit.ly/1DqxjiT )
14:15 BayAreaCoins Thanks MP.
14:15 mircea_popescu np np
14:15 BayAreaCoins Y'all fellas have a nice day.
14:19 BingoBoingo !up ascii_field
14:20 ascii_field danke BingoBoingo
14:26 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 20890 @ 0.00042422 = 8.862 BTC [-]
14:38 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 12600 @ 0.00041732 = 5.2582 BTC [-]
14:47 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 4850 @ 0.00041492 = 2.0124 BTC [-]
14:48 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 31124 @ 0.00042291 = 13.1627 BTC [+] {2}
14:48 BingoBoingo !up btcat
14:48 BingoBoingo Hello btcat
14:49 btcat hello
14:51 BingoBoingo !up ascii_field
14:51 ascii_field ty BingoBoingo
14:52 mircea_popescu ascii_field dun take it teh wrong way, but! the thanking is kinda spammy.
14:52 ascii_field ok
15:02 mike_c if we could sign into b-a with our facebook accounts we wouldn't have to get up'ed when we were in the field.
15:02 ascii_field with anal print
15:03 mircea_popescu but i don't have a facebook account ;/
15:03 ben_vulpes there an assbot persistent otp link per key?
15:04 mircea_popescu i thought they're single use ?
15:04 ben_vulpes sure, the otp itself.
15:06 BingoBoingo http://www.stltoday.com/lifestyles/columns/joe-holleman/tv-anchor-kristi-capel-off-air-until-monday-after-racial/article_4baebdde-0073-5af4-b9f9-3b93a09e045d.html
15:06 assbot TV anchor Kristi Capel off air until Monday after racial slur : Lifestyles ... ( http://bit.ly/1LEh5V2 )
15:08 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 12000 @ 0.00042147 = 5.0576 BTC [-]
15:12 mircea_popescu !up jux
15:13 jux they just mentioned this place on teamspeak so i am checking it out
15:13 mircea_popescu who's they
15:14 jux teamspeak all the audio bitcoin chatters/traders
15:14 mircea_popescu aha
15:19 thestringpuller a lot of new people are stopping in
15:20 thestringpuller welcome guise
15:22 thestringpuller !up assbot
15:22 thestringpuller !up ascii_field
15:26 mats teamspeak sounds like a horrifically bad medium to communicate with more than, say, three people at a time
15:28 mircea_popescu notmuch worse than the historical forum.
15:29 mircea_popescu most decent guild players have meanwhile learned to stfu / use it sanely.
15:31 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 15150 @ 0.00041819 = 6.3356 BTC [-]
15:33 BingoBoingo http://burnedoutmedic.com/2014/02/what-are-politicians-doing-thats-so-important-that-they-travel-with-lights-and-sirens/
15:33 assbot What ARE politicians doing that’s so important that they travel with lights and sirens? | Burned-Out Medic ... ( http://bit.ly/1LEo00t )
15:33 ascii_field BingoBoingo: sop in ru
15:33 ascii_field for decades.
15:33 mircea_popescu and the answer is "nothing".
15:33 mircea_popescu that's it : unimportance must be masked.
15:34 ascii_field ru politicos even fight to decide who merits 'blinker' - like roman lictors
15:34 trinque got the deedbot blockchain up to date yesterday, haxed on the transaction creating guy
15:35 trinque mired in irl work until this evening, but will be finishing up then
15:35 mircea_popescu cool.
15:36 trinque not to derail current convos, but I finally caught up on the current events blockchain as well
15:36 trinque are we really trying to instigate wwiii?
15:36 trinque advisors in ukraine like 'nam
15:36 trinque tanks in europe, etc
15:36 danielpbarron hi jux :D
15:36 trinque I feel like I'm going to get my startup profitable just as the roof caves in
15:40 danielpbarron https://twitter.com/flibbr/status/570684349152165888 @danielpbarron I have insiders in #bitcoin-assets now. I am inviting you onto the teamspeak. It'd be rude not to show your face :)
15:40 assbot /danielpbarron Daniel r u going to come onto this 200+ user global bitcoin teamspeak channel and bring your cult /hashtag/bitcoinassets?src=hash mates?
15:41 chetty 200+ people talking at once? oh what fun, hold me back
15:42 danielpbarron I joined his google hangout one time; the guy was so flabbergasted with my position that he kept repeating explitives relating to how unbelievable it was
15:43 mircea_popescu trinque it's usually how that works.
15:43 trinque mircea_popescu: heh, I've always figured I'd be dragging myself out of rubble at some point
15:43 trinque haven't ever been certain whether that was a metaphor
15:44 lobbes fatmouse is coming
15:44 chetty think of all the fun to be had rebuilding trinque
15:44 danielpbarron aww the "insider" left
15:44 mircea_popescu anyway, the notion that dod is dumb enough to re-do vietnam...
15:44 ascii_field re-do iraq
15:45 ascii_field re-do afghan
15:45 mircea_popescu it's all just one dumb redo huh
15:45 ascii_field what else -does- it do
15:45 mircea_popescu myea
15:46 trinque chetty: one hopes it's an opportunity for greatness to emerge
15:48 mircea_popescu the only practical thing it does is it forces women to shut up, with the resultant shutdown of welfare, classes with no grades, coddled children etc.
15:48 mats http://codemachine.com/article_x64deepdive.html
15:49 mircea_popescu you'd think this could be modulated in the head rather than in the welted butt.
15:52 ascii_field mats: basic winblows
15:54 BingoBoingo !up ascii_field
15:54 mats yeup.
15:54 mats learning windows internals is a daily struggle...
15:56 mircea_popescu ahhh the splendor that is tlp. allow me to quote http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2008/07/academics_hide_drug_company_pa.html
15:56 assbot The Last Psychiatrist: Academics Hide Drug Company Payments ... ( http://bit.ly/1LEu8pA )
15:57 mircea_popescu Believe me, I am no friend of Biederman's. But the money is a red herring. If you want to be angry about the specific ethics of a psychiatrist receiving Pharma money, fine, but I am telling you it is not worth the Senate time, not worth press space.
15:57 mircea_popescu The real money, the real problem that goes unmentioned is the money that goes to universities, in the form of research grants. Biederman may have pocketed $1M, but I'm sure he was awarded much, much more for clinical trials-- money which he didn't get any of, which went to Harvard.
15:57 mircea_popescu We aren't overmedicating kids because Biederman told us to; we're doing it because Harvard told us to. And Harvard told us to because that is what they are getting money to study. Biederman is just the nanobot that does it.
15:57 mircea_popescu If Biederman never existed, nothing would be different. You read his resume, you think, wow, he's a big player. You don't realize that if he didn't exist there would be some other person in his exact position, who would also have become a Distinguished Professor, won awards, written 450 publications, etc. The machine was already in place, his slot was going to get filled; his mind didn't discover anything, those res
15:57 mircea_popescu ults were coming no matter what, those publications were already going to be written.
15:57 mircea_popescu The money isn't corrupting him into thinking childhood bipolar is underdiagnosed-- he truly believes it. The reason he believes it is his entire professional existence-- his whole identity-- is predicated on believing it. He's not a scientist, he's a priest.
15:57 mircea_popescu if anyone in any position of "big playerness" in fiat is curious to see exactly how true this is ? take a week to not do anything. at all.
15:58 mircea_popescu hey, you're a big player, right ? not doing anything is the default, i'm sure caesar could sit on his ass in the castrum and play dice with the centurions for three straight winters if he so wanted.
15:58 mircea_popescu it's not that he didn't trhat makes him one of those big players, it's that it was solely his option to do so, and didn't.
15:59 mircea_popescu is the same the case for you ? if you simply stop doing your cog-part, is there any pressure ?
15:59 mircea_popescu how long can you stop the machine before you're simply replaced ?
15:59 mircea_popescu that's the measure of power.
16:02 pete_dushenski sort of why obama fills every moment of every day meeting with various online celebs
16:03 pete_dushenski if he sat still for a moment, you'd forget who was in the white house
16:04 pete_dushenski http://www.contravex.com/2015/02/25/count-your-blessings-government-employees-to-say-nothing-of-your-days/
16:04 assbot Count your blessings, government employees, to say nothing of your days. | Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski ... ( http://bit.ly/1LEvTTR )
16:05 trinque mircea_popescu: how can anything be done about that particular problem of identity?
16:06 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 9850 @ 0.00042147 = 4.1515 BTC [+]
16:08 trinque trying to articulate the actual question
16:08 trinque seems having a name creates this bundle of "I am" in the head, which people protect as they do their own bodies
16:09 trinque or even at the cost of their actual bodies
16:10 mircea_popescu trinque which particular problem is that ?
16:11 mircea_popescu identity is the result of action. action requires agency. a perverse system (such as any high density population will always create) separates action from agency. ("i'm only doing my job").
16:12 mircea_popescu this results in broken identity, and there's literally no solution except carnage (bring down that density), which is why people who figure it out usually leave a note where their assault rifles used to be.
16:12 trinque saw you link joe stack the other day
16:12 trinque friends and I had a little celebration that day
16:13 mircea_popescu commemoration ?
16:13 ascii_field doing my job << 'i wüz ünly föllöwing ürderz'
16:13 trinque mircea_popescu: yeah
16:13 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 34500 @ 0.00041818 = 14.4272 BTC [-] {2}
16:13 mircea_popescu the entire "act from cause not towards purpose" thing on trilema is exactly a vaccine against that.
16:13 trinque his note got a little slogan laden, but I unerstand the grief
16:13 thestringpuller ah pete_dushenski the trap philosopher :D
16:13 * thestringpuller waves
16:14 trinque mircea_popescu: that's an exceptionally clarifying statement, and one which I think helps me articulate the identity thing
16:14 mircea_popescu if person has enough sense to limit how much agencyless activity they put out, they will stand a much better chance to develop an actual idenity, and so not find themselves at age 40 flying planes into buildings.
16:15 ascii_field http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/42/wiles.php << obligatory
16:15 assbot CABINET // The Behavioral Sink ... ( http://bit.ly/1EsPxlx )
16:16 pete_dushenski thestringpuller ;)
16:16 ascii_field 'Normal social discourse within the mouse community broke down, and with it the ability of mice to form social bonds. The failures and dropouts congregated in large groups in the middle of the enclosure, their listless withdrawal occasionally interrupted by spasms and waves of pointless violence. The victims of these random attacks became attackers. Left on their own in nests subject to invasion, nursing females attacked
16:16 ascii_field their own young. Procreation slumped, infant abandonment and mortality soared. Lone females retreated to isolated nesting boxes on penthouse levels. Other males, a group Calhoun termed “the beautiful ones,” never sought sex and never fought—they just ate, slept, and groomed, wrapped in narcissistic introspection.'
16:17 trinque mircea_popescu: when I became disillusioned with god and state, that involved a realization that I could feel towards myself any way I saw fit
16:17 trinque my identity is as imagined as the god I used to believe in
16:22 thestringpuller 16:18 -!- hanbot [~hanbot@unaffiliated/hanbot] has quit [Ping timeout: 246 seconds]
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16:22 thestringpuller ^^^- the stuff conspiracy theories are made of ;)
16:24 cazalla logs were an interesting read this morning
16:37 pete_dushenski cazalla the gmaxwell bit ?
16:40 cazalla pete_dushenski, moxie and gpg discussion
16:40 pete_dushenski o ya, i called his ass out yesterday
16:40 pete_dushenski sorta what kicked the whole thing off on twitter at least
16:41 pete_dushenski https://twitter.com/pete_dushenski/status/570369084186972160
16:41 assbot I used to dream of a world where everyone would install GPG. Now I dream of a world where I can uninstall it: http://t.co/eRZ0hdlmgx
16:42 cazalla yeah, i read the twitter discussion too
16:44 pete_dushenski usg's gotta throw all its turds at the wall
16:44 pete_dushenski not that surprising
16:44 pete_dushenski use what you can
16:45 pete_dushenski then again, i'd never heard of moxie until he decided to be a retard so i dunno if he really had that much cred to begin with. i assume he was small but not insignificant
16:45 cazalla moxie is australian if memory serves
16:46 pete_dushenski go roos!
16:46 pete_dushenski decimation:re: federal employees overpaid < I suspect the whole system operates as a net with a hole - all the talent get sucked in and immediately leaves, but the bottom suckers end up 'caught' << their getting caught is like a lottery winner getting caught
16:46 mike_c he's done some cool stuff in the past. most famous (at least to me) for some ssl mitm stuff he built.
16:46 pete_dushenski fortunate beasts are they who don't starve as nature intended
16:46 cazalla unless i'm confusing him with someone else, i remember the name from an aussie forum 15 years back where one could learn to use a mcdonald's straw to get free phone calls from payphones.. amongst other things lol
16:48 pete_dushenski mats:give it another four years and all the useful combat vets will have exited the service out of sheer disgust << to go work at sbux for schultzy ?
16:48 mats the ones that aren't broke from carrying 70+ combat loads, sure.
16:48 pete_dushenski shultz is on record as saying that he plans to hire 10k veterans in the next couple of years
16:48 mats rest, civil service, fire & police depts, ...
16:49 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 17398 @ 0.0004214 = 7.3315 BTC [+] {2}
16:49 mats 70+ lbs*
16:49 pete_dushenski i suppose there are less useful uses for us military training than caramel frappuccinos
16:50 pete_dushenski mats and academi!
16:50 mats pff. 'triple canopy'.
16:51 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 37525 @ 0.0004243 = 15.9219 BTC [+] {2}
16:52 mats working for a PMC is a sweet hustle. get into a NG SF group, take work leave, teach iraqis trig so they can do some basic artillery targeting.
16:55 pete_dushenski sounds like a regular holiday.
16:59 mats it'd be a holiday for me.
17:01 mats http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/2/25/dc-recreational-marijuana-use-set-to-become-legal.html
17:01 assbot DC recreational marijuana use set to become legal | Al Jazeera America ... ( http://bit.ly/1A7BSKe )
17:08 pete_dushenski that's going to make for one psychadelic cardano
17:09 pete_dushenski i can already see the beads and henna ink on the case design
17:10 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 45202 @ 0.00041741 = 18.8678 BTC [-] {2}
17:11 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 4648 @ 0.00041069 = 1.9089 BTC [-]
17:16 danielpbarron You are blocked from following @moxie and viewing @moxie's Tweets. Learn more << LOL
17:17 pete_dushenski heh
17:17 pete_dushenski block all the mean peoples!
17:17 pete_dushenski i had a bunch of people who'd blocked me last i checked
17:17 danielpbarron b-a is like the one place i'm allowed on the internet
17:17 pete_dushenski gavin, derpopoolous, marc andresen, etc
17:18 danielpbarron yeah aantonop blocked me too :D
17:18 pete_dushenski to quote myself: "IRC, it being the first, biggest, bestest bastion of free-thinking men and all that"
17:18 danielpbarron Achievement unlocked: get blocked by 5 sc4mz0rz.
17:19 pete_dushenski it should definitely count towards lordship consideration
17:21 pete_dushenski http://lifehacker.com/five-best-file-encryption-tools-5677725 << bravo for mentioning gpg!
17:21 assbot Five Best File Encryption Tools ... ( http://bit.ly/1A7DZOb )
17:22 cazalla yeah irc is the best, not sure why i left it so many years ago in favour of icq, msn messenger, steam chat treadmill
17:27 cazalla only difference.. i swear there were more girls in #teenchat back in the 90s or at least more boys pretending to be girls
17:28 pete_dushenski figured i'd send the lifehacker dood an invite: https://twitter.com/pete_dushenski/status/570711085440897024
17:28 assbot Hey /halophoenix, tip of the cap for mentioning GPG in your list of 'best file encryption tools'. Consider this an invite to bitcoin-assets.
17:28 pete_dushenski cazalla being geeky isn't cool for girls anymore unless it involves a phablet
17:29 pete_dushenski and quite despite the 'women in tech' lowering of barriers to entry
17:29 lobbes 'faux-nerdism' is the rage nowadays
17:29 pete_dushenski mya, big glasses, short skirts, the look, not the content
17:29 pete_dushenski content is... hard
17:30 danielpbarron the look isn't easy either -- need to use filters and camera angles that hide obesity and skin conditions
17:32 pete_dushenski that's not easy ? there's like 1000 buzzfeed articles describing exactly how to do exactly that
17:33 * pete_dushenski thinks this is how buzzfeed works, has only been to gawk at post-superbowl sharknanigans
17:39 pete_dushenski cazalla re: kiddy porn: "Fortunately, the <del>hard hitting journalism</del> published by The Daily Mail" << doesn't parse with this part nixed
17:40 jurov prolly with the "hard" left in
17:41 cazalla yeah, couldn't think of another way to make it work so i left it as is, reader can replace it with whatever they so choose i guess
17:41 cazalla half that report is just talking about bitcoin and drugs, not even cp
17:42 pete_dushenski just un-nix journalism mebbe ?
17:42 pete_dushenski http://qntra.net/2015/02/europol-uses-kiddy-porn-hysteria-to-attack-bitcoin/#comment-11666 << speaking of hard to use.
17:42 assbot Europol Uses Kiddy Porn Hysteria To Attack Bitcoin | Qntra.net ... ( http://bit.ly/1A7HELD )
17:42 cazalla my own personal rule of thumb - those who task themselves to combat cp are more likely to be producers/consumers
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18:03 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 37400 @ 0.00041804 = 15.6347 BTC [+]
18:03 jurov kako hasn't flushed the bash since feb 9
18:04 jurov so i did.. ended up adding three pages... hes gonna kill me
18:04 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 4900 @ 0.00041472 = 2.0321 BTC [-]
18:06 pete_dushenski mircea_popescu: usual 30 bux a month << for 1 gbps ?! fuck me if that's even close to accurate.
18:06 pete_dushenski $120/mo here gets... 120 gbps
18:07 pete_dushenski $60 currently gets me 15 mbps
18:07 pete_dushenski fast enough for my needs, but they're not exactly giving it away
18:09 pete_dushenski ascii_field:don't forget streaming audio from microphones chump voluntarily keeps in the house, car, etc << when it's already in your pocket...
18:09 mike_c sold, i'll take 120 gbps for $120.
18:10 pete_dushenski alberta would love to have you :D http://www.shaw.ca/internet/highspeed-120/
18:10 assbot Shaw High Speed Internet 120 - DSL Service | Connect & Download at the highest speeds ... ( http://bit.ly/1alxdiT )
18:12 pete_dushenski !up ascii_field
18:13 ascii_field pete_dushenski: gbps !?!?!
18:13 ascii_field pete_dushenski: you're off by 1000 factor
18:13 ascii_field pete_dushenski: according to vendor link
18:13 mike_c insanity. qntra bids are over 0.0003? going to be the priciest share on mpex soon.
18:14 pete_dushenski ascii_field lol so i was. *120 mbps
18:15 pete_dushenski mr. henry (lifehacker author) is apparently flattered at the b-a invite: https://twitter.com/halophoenix/status/570723112498679808
18:15 assbot Hey /halophoenix, tip of the cap for mentioning GPG in your list of 'best file encryption tools'. Consider this an invite to bitcoin-assets.
18:15 pete_dushenski now, we wait and see if he turns that into action.
18:15 ascii_field price 120gb/s sometime.
18:16 pete_dushenski where could such a thing even exist ?
18:16 pete_dushenski in theory-land ?
18:16 ascii_field pete_dushenski: in data centre
18:16 pete_dushenski mike_c i'll sell you my qntra shares for 1 btc each. best price.
18:17 pete_dushenski ascii_field ok, so cost would be... ?
18:18 ascii_field pete_dushenski: depends very much on locale
18:18 pete_dushenski "Morgan Stanley to Pay $2.6 Billion to Settle Mortgage Cases" << more usg tax collection
18:19 pete_dushenski "thank you for carrying out our policy, here's the bill"
18:19 pete_dushenski ascii_field just so i can have a ballpark feel for the numbers, let's say dc
18:20 ascii_field pete_dushenski: mid-five-digits (usd) per mo., most likely
18:20 pete_dushenski hm cool
18:21 ascii_field pete_dushenski: but keep in mind that data centre doesn't sell pipe alone
18:21 pete_dushenski "Pakistan has ordered cellphone users to verify their identities through fingerprints for a national database being compiled to curb terrorism." << maybe pakis should read old nyt ? http://www.truthinjustice.org/fingerprint-myth.htm
18:21 assbot The Myth of Fingerprints ... ( http://bit.ly/1zJ8GKq )
18:22 pete_dushenski ascii_field duly observed
18:31 BingoBoingo pete_dushenski: Be aware that Henry is with a Gawker Media venture
18:31 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 27779 @ 0.00041612 = 11.5594 BTC [+] {2}
18:32 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 5779 @ 0.00041069 = 2.3734 BTC [-]
18:35 pete_dushenski this, i know
18:35 pete_dushenski hey, maybe we can recruit him for qntra after he does his 6 months
18:35 pete_dushenski start chipping away at the establishment and all that
18:37 pete_dushenski laters!
18:37 punkman mircea_popescu: as a side note : secure comunication via gpg works as follows : << alt.anonymous.messages can also be useful
18:41 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 15741 @ 0.00042433 = 6.6794 BTC [+]
18:54 punkman http://www.zdnet.com/article/lenovo-website-hacked/
18:54 assbot ​Lenovo website DNS record hijacked | ZDNet ... ( http://bit.ly/1ALV4Rg )
19:02 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 19527 @ 0.00041069 = 8.0195 BTC [-]
19:03 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 5323 @ 0.00040978 = 2.1813 BTC [-]
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19:41 asciilifeform http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/25/us-china-tech-exclusive-idUSKBN0LT1B020150225 << lulzies
19:41 assbot Exclusive: China drops leading technology brands for state purchases| Reuters ... ( http://bit.ly/17zMg6M )
19:47 ben_vulpes https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/32423?project=1 << emacs over x11. am i the only one who does this?
19:47 assbot FS#32423 : [emacs] emacsclient consistently crashes emacs ... ( http://bit.ly/1Be6TBu )
19:47 asciilifeform ben_vulpes: over x11 vs what ?
19:47 ben_vulpes in a terminal.
19:48 asciilifeform i've only ever used emacs in x11
19:48 asciilifeform ditto most folks i know
19:48 ben_vulpes i've finally grown up a bit then i guess.
19:48 asciilifeform is ben_vulpes using some perverse system ?
19:48 ben_vulpes oh come now, don't be coy.
19:48 asciilifeform netbsd on dead goat ?
19:48 asciilifeform ah let me guess
19:49 * ben_vulpes is baffled as to why guessing would be necessary
19:49 asciilifeform iirc the canonical emacs on apple is 'aquamacs'
19:49 thestringpuller http://i.imgur.com/AkFy40Z.jpg << hey look consumers!
19:49 asciilifeform mostly trad emacs but with gui hooks for the os
19:49 ben_vulpes right.
19:49 ben_vulpes the progression was
19:51 ben_vulpes aquamacs -> railwaycat emacs port -> erc in a terminal on a remote host -> frustrations with tiling window managers in os x -> discovery of xmonad, ratpoison and friends -> x11 configuration -> stumpwm -> emacs on os x in x11 -> horrific bastard mode of "znc" on local machine with "znc" running on remote host -> emacs on remote host as bouncer displaying on a local x11 frame
19:52 ben_vulpes followed by emacsclient crashing emacs --daemon every time the x11 frame disappeared
19:52 ben_vulpes all for want of a workstation, i suppose.
19:52 thestringpuller ben_vulpes: VIM 4 LYFE
19:53 * thestringpuller graffiti's his nice EMACS setup
19:53 asciilifeform ben_vulpes: i presume the second item on this list was a build of traditional emacs for apple ?
19:54 asciilifeform why switched from that to the remote thing ?
19:54 asciilifeform (if this was in the log - link to log)
19:58 ben_vulpes asciilifeform: novice's bouncer.
19:59 ben_vulpes i like manipulating text in emacs, but wanted a persistent connection to b-a.
19:59 ben_vulpes the most obvious route to me at the time was to run emacs in a terminal on a remote host.
20:00 * asciilifeform opened today's mail, is leafing through 'ada 95 rationale' and it's a joy
20:01 asciilifeform ben_vulpes: i enjoy colours, good fonts, etc. and so will not use emacs in a term if there's any choice about it
20:01 thestringpuller ben_vulpes: why not use a screen multiplexer? like tmux or screen?
20:03 cazalla thestringpuller, i like this one better :P http://i.imgur.com/aFYebE1.gif
20:03 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1Be9Fqy )
20:03 ben_vulpes asciilifeform: what typeface do you use?
20:05 asciilifeform ben_vulpes: laugh if you will, misc-fixed-medium-r-normal
20:07 ben_vulpes i don't really know enough to laugh.
20:07 asciilifeform emacs is unbeatable on account of the customizations - not only of appearance (i've a different highlighting mode for every type of animal, and most are not the stock included ones) but mechanics - how do folks get along on other editors without 'hungry arrow keys', for example ?
20:07 ben_vulpes all i really know is how to ask about what others do and run my own experiments.
20:07 ben_vulpes hungry arrow keys?
20:07 asciilifeform aha
20:08 ben_vulpes i've no idea what you mean...
20:08 asciilifeform as in, never having to hit an arrow key more than once to traverse a block of whitespace
20:08 mike_c press ctrl?
20:08 * trinque M-x package-install
20:08 asciilifeform mike_c: not same
20:09 asciilifeform mike_c: and not cross-mode
20:13 trinque ben_vulpes: https://github.com/neersighted/nbnc << I might try this out
20:13 assbot neersighted/nbnc · GitHub ... ( http://bit.ly/1BebNyF )
20:13 trinque it claims to be what I want
20:14 trinque hm, no buffering
20:14 trinque nvm
20:14 ben_vulpes give up
20:14 ben_vulpes put emacs on a remote host
20:14 ben_vulpes x11 tunnel
20:14 ben_vulpes be stupid like me
20:15 trinque :(
20:15 trinque right now I'm just weechatting in a tmux+mosh
20:15 trinque unix philosophy is dead
20:15 trinque where is the simple bouncer
20:16 trinque heh! https://github.com/nicferrier/shoes-off
20:16 assbot nicferrier/shoes-off · GitHub ... ( http://bit.ly/1Becqbe )
20:16 trinque would hilariously not remove remote emacs from your current setup
20:17 thestringpuller asciilifeform: re: hungry arrow keys << VIM i rarely use arrow keys...
20:19 ben_vulpes thestringpuller: re tmux etc like alf, i pretty much refuse to work in a terminal
20:19 ben_vulpes it's good for the things for which it is good
20:19 ben_vulpes but for other things, it is not.
20:19 ben_vulpes htop - good
20:19 ben_vulpes emacs - not.
20:19 thestringpuller trinque: weechat interesting. i use irssi.
20:20 ben_vulpes for instance, i hate weechat and irssi.
20:20 thestringpuller ben_vulpes: i used to belive this but I don't like using mice. I find the use of a mouse kills my wrist.
20:20 ben_vulpes cutting and pasting etc must fit within emacs text manipulation paradigms.
20:20 ben_vulpes thestringpuller: who said anything about mice?
20:20 thestringpuller this is also why I hate IDE's that have "buttons"
20:20 ben_vulpes i never take my hands off the keyboard.
20:20 ben_vulpes do you take me for a menu-traverser?
20:20 thestringpuller what is your stack?
20:20 thestringpuller ^- ben_vulpes
20:21 trinque thestringpuller: weechat's kind of butt, just less butt than other things I've used
20:21 thestringpuller trinque: ah. the only client i've used is mirc, and as I just told ben_vulpes i hate mice.
20:22 trinque what mouse?
20:22 ben_vulpes thestringpuller: stack?
20:22 trinque shit I even vimperator
20:23 thestringpuller thestringpuller: like what OS, browser, text editor do you use on your local that you don't have to use a mouse to navigate?
20:23 ben_vulpes fine, you got me. not "never", but only under duress.
20:23 ben_vulpes and progressively less as i sharpen my sword/till my garden.
20:23 thestringpuller i'm trying to figure out your workflow I guess.
20:23 ben_vulpes os x
20:23 thestringpuller i've onyl been able to really accomplish that in terminal
20:23 ben_vulpes emacs in x11
20:24 trinque he's dialing in keywords on xkeyscore so he can find you
20:24 thestringpuller oh so emacs does all the lifting as you said earlier
20:24 ben_vulpes that is the point of using emacs.
20:24 ben_vulpes text editor, debugger, grep wrapper, vcs wrapper, irc client...
20:24 ben_vulpes tags browser...
20:24 ben_vulpes granted, nothing that vim doesn't do (poorly)
20:24 thestringpuller i really prefer a shell...
20:25 thestringpuller alright them is fighting words
20:25 thestringpuller http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editor_war << hah
20:25 ben_vulpes i started with vim - i know somewhat whereof i speak.
20:27 thestringpuller i don't use VIM outside text editing so I don't know the capacicty to which it is customizable
20:28 thestringpuller i also don't use emacs but when trying to learn, it really really really made me want toss my computer out a window
20:28 trinque thestringpuller: evil mode
20:28 trinque you'll be right at home
20:29 thestringpuller maybe, but also I don't know LISP ;)
20:29 thestringpuller it's on my bucket list
20:29 trinque sure you do; just don't realize it yet
20:29 thestringpuller along with starting a crime family with asciilifeform
20:29 trinque I bet you know python or something
20:29 thestringpuller yea I know python. and also slowly ruby
20:30 thestringpuller but the lispi-ness of it evades me for sure
20:31 thestringpuller i use procedural paradigm when using Python and Ruby tho...
20:31 thestringpuller altho ruby seems to punish you for it
20:31 trinque yeah, but your other languages have expressions
20:32 trinque just imagine everything's one of those, and there are no implicit orders of operation except up
20:32 thestringpuller trinque: lets have a LISP tutorial when I'm tripping instead of drunk ;)
20:32 trinque heh
20:32 trinque ask someone more experienced
20:32 trinque hacking my emacs and stumpwm configs have helped a great deal
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20:48 asciilifeform jurov!!!
20:48 asciilifeform fucktarded turdatron ate another message of mine
20:48 asciilifeform 80-column hard limit
20:49 asciilifeform lemme guess, non-latin1 chars not allowed.
20:49 asciilifeform and -no- i'm not interested in including it as a clickable attachment.
20:50 asciilifeform because that's retarded.
20:50 thestringpuller asciilifeform 's wrath bit flips on.
20:51 asciilifeform http://www.loper-os.org/pub/profound_retardation.txt
20:52 asciilifeform jurov: your thing is very seriously unusable imho
20:53 asciilifeform $ gpg --verify profound_retardation.txt
20:53 asciilifeform gpg: Signature made Wed Feb 25 20:47:07 2015 EST using RSA key ID 01ABFFC7
20:53 asciilifeform gpg: Good signature from "Stanislav Datskovskiy <stas@loper-os.org>"
20:53 asciilifeform so that's not the issue
20:57 thestringpuller !t m s.qntr
20:57 assbot [MPEX:S.QNTR] 1D: 0 / 0 / 0 (0 shares, 0 BTC), 7D: 0.0003 / 0.0003 / 0.0003 (100 shares, 0.03 BTC), 30D: 0.000175 / 0.00025046 / 0.0003 (50536 shares, 12.66 BTC)
21:00 asciilifeform ^ i mean srsly, wtf am i supposed to do with that. the unprintable garbage is key to the message
21:00 asciilifeform it isn't unimportant in the least bit
21:03 thestringpuller good evening mircea_popescu
21:10 asciilifeform forgot to include the detail, in profound_retardation.txt, that the sandisk drive is a 60gb unit.
21:10 asciilifeform (yes, the capacity read by both u-boot and bsd is garbage, though deterministic garbage)
21:11 asciilifeform another data point - the 2.6.31.8 linux kernel originally shipped with 'pogo' had precisely the same behaviour
21:11 asciilifeform (unlike arch)
21:12 asciilifeform if i knew for a fact that the bug -only- triggers on 'sandisk' drives, it wouldn't be worth thinking about at all
21:12 asciilifeform but i cannot guarantee this.
21:13 asciilifeform !up decimation
21:13 decimation ty asciilifeform
21:13 decimation assbot's http interface appears to be down
21:14 decimation I suspect mircea_popescu is working on it
21:14 asciilifeform so -that's- where ddosbot went
21:14 decimation heh
21:14 asciilifeform !up mircea_popescu
21:14 mircea_popescu oddly assbot otps timeout
21:14 mircea_popescu am i the on;y one ?
21:14 decimation nope
21:15 decimation the otp url comes across, but the http interface is dead
21:15 mike_c kakobrekla, are you/assbot getting dos'd?
21:15 decimation possibly due to anti-ddos animatronics
21:15 asciilifeform 'once is an accident, twice is enemy action'
21:16 decimation I first noted it around 0045 utc
21:17 decimation err 0145
21:17 mircea_popescu well i lost a main router somehow too. supposedly was a power outage downtown
21:18 asciilifeform today?
21:18 mircea_popescu decimation im not working on assbot, kako is
21:18 mircea_popescu asciilifeform earlier when i went down
21:18 asciilifeform and -lost- as in smoked?
21:19 decimation mircea_popescu: ah okay
21:19 mircea_popescu i dunno. ima have it looked into tomorro
21:20 asciilifeform perhaps just a routine ocelot-in-cableway incident
21:20 decimation or crocodile-in-toilet perhaps?
21:20 mircea_popescu myeah.
21:21 * asciilifeform imagines one day roto-rooting toilet and pulling up pieces of suit, briefcase...
21:21 * asciilifeform would prefer to live with alligators
21:22 asciilifeform (ceteris paribus)
21:23 decimation re: cosmonaut's gun: I thought it was for besting wild bears if the capsule lands in the urals
21:23 asciilifeform decimation: nah that one comes with >1 round
21:23 asciilifeform this is the other one
21:23 decimation heh
21:24 decimation !up nubbins`
21:25 decimation <nubbins`> probably unrelated but there's been a comms van w/ gov plates parked down the road from me for like a week
21:25 mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-02-2015#1033726 < i lollered.
21:25 assbot Logged on 25-02-2015 22:18:52; danielpbarron: Achievement unlocked: get blocked by 5 sc4mz0rz.
21:30 thestringpuller decimation: hmmm. sword axe time draws near.
21:31 asciilifeform except that gasenwagen doesn't have 'gasenwagen' painted on. it has, e.g., 'kaiser kaffee'
21:31 decimation maybe we can be in the same 'meat van' as asciilifeform when we are being taking the the sharashka
21:31 decimation nah it says 'meat'
21:31 asciilifeform 'bread' more classically
21:31 decimation http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=19-07-2014#761383 http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=19-07-2014#761384
21:31 assbot Logged on 19-07-2014 01:48:06; decimation: "Buffeting its load of tightly packed bodies, the gaily painted orange and blue truck drove on through the streets, passed a railway station and stopped at a crossroads. There, halted by a traffic-light, stood the dark-red car belonging to the Moscow correspondent of the Paris newspaper LIBERATION, on his way to a hockey match at the Dynamo Stadium. On the side of the van the correspondent read the words
21:31 assbot Logged on 19-07-2014 01:48:07; decimation: He remembered having seen several trucks like this today in various parts of Moscow. Taking out his notebook he wrote with his dark-red fountain pen: 'Now and again on the streets of Moscow you meet food delivery vans, clean, well-designed and hygienic. One must admit that the city's food supplies are admirably well organized.'"
21:32 asciilifeform http://1k43club.ru/upload/forum/ecbd3569e1ea8edcf5033d509b1c6d9c.jpg
21:32 decimation does that say 'bread'?
21:32 asciilifeform aha
21:33 asciilifeform http://karopka.ru/upload/iblock/280/photo_5_1389624339.jpeg << meat variant
21:34 mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-02-2015#1033766 o.O look at that.
21:34 assbot Logged on 25-02-2015 23:13:49; mike_c: insanity. qntra bids are over 0.0003? going to be the priciest share on mpex soon.
21:34 mike_c it's a bubble :)
21:34 thestringpuller mike_c: hard to distinguish buyer frenzy from investors paying for content.
21:35 mike_c i thought that a couple times, but then the bids kept going up.
21:35 thestringpuller well no one is really selling
21:35 mike_c right, but bids don't need to keep going up to incentivize writers
21:36 mircea_popescu i imagine it's just like bitcoin : not many shares, many people heard of it.
21:37 thestringpuller so people buying MPEx seats just to subsidize qntra?
21:37 thestringpuller doesn't make sense...
21:37 mike_c plus it hasn't tried to make money yet (with one tiny exception), so it's still hopes and dreams phase.
21:37 thestringpuller mike_c: i don't think it can make money yet. it's in egg phase. egg must hatch first.
21:37 thestringpuller right now qntra is competing for intelligent eyeballs
21:38 mike_c yeah, i agree it shouldn't be trying to monetize yet. but that helps fuel investor optimism.
21:38 thestringpuller well given trilema is well monetized I wouldn't worry too much about qntra implementing a revenue stream in the future
21:39 mike_c trilema's monetization level doesn't support the current qntra share price to me.
21:39 asciilifeform http://cs315428.vk.me/v315428826/2342/vO1VSY-YbxY.jpg
21:39 mircea_popescu "Chief casualty is U.S. network equipment maker Cisco Systems Inc, which in 2012 counted 60 products on the Central Government Procurement Center's (CGPC) list, but by late 2014 had none, a Reuters analysis of official data shows."
21:39 mircea_popescu cisco is so fucking dead...
21:39 decimation lol what does it say asciilifeform
21:40 mircea_popescu and red hat is fucking next.
21:40 asciilifeform decimation: 'i'd press a bit'
21:40 mike_c holee shit. 60->0 is two years?
21:40 thestringpuller mike_c: qntra may very well outgrow trilema
21:40 thestringpuller mircea_popescu: trilema is 8 years old?
21:40 mircea_popescu mike_c cisco pretty much imploded once it became clear they're working for the usg against their customers.
21:40 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: cisco dead << still crown-blessed, usg supply alone could feed it sov. factory style till the bitter end
21:40 mircea_popescu absolute texbook case on the dangers of "obeying the laws".
21:41 mike_c asciilifeform: problem is, that's not a growth story.
21:41 decimation http://justsecurity.org/20304/transcript-nsa-director-mike-rogers-vs-yahoo-encryption-doors/
21:41 assbot Transcript: NSA Director Mike Rogers vs. Yahoo! on Encryption Back Doors | Just Security
21:41 mircea_popescu ^
21:41 mircea_popescu i'm happier with trilema's monetization than with cisco's soviet future.
21:42 decimation "AS: No, I think Bruce Schneier and Ed Felton and all of the best public cryptographers in the world would agree that you can’t really build backdoors in crypto. That it’s like drilling a hole in the windshield.
21:42 decimation MR: I’ve got a lot of world-class cryptographers at the National Security Agency." < MR is 'mike rogers', new director of nsa
21:42 thestringpuller mircea_popescu: I've been to several stores and they put the Cisco routers on the bottom with sign "Spookware" and Asus routers on the top shelves with "No Spookware"
21:42 asciilifeform thestringpuller: lol, goodcop/badcop
21:42 asciilifeform thestringpuller: as if 'nonspookware' is a thing in the store
21:42 asciilifeform or any store.
21:43 thestringpuller i kno! just funny how it is pop culture now.
21:43 decimation "AS: So you do believe then, that we should build those for other countries [Russia, China] if they pass laws? MR: I think we can work our way through this."
21:43 mike_c too bad mircea_popescu can't say what he thinks qntra share price is right.
21:43 asciilifeform === 'planet is our banana plantation, shuddthefuckup'
21:43 mike_c probably not right for owner to pontificate on that too much.
21:44 thestringpuller asciilifeform: how does one procure a non-spookware router tho?
21:44 asciilifeform !up decimation
21:44 asciilifeform thestringpuller: using your hands
21:44 thestringpuller how so?
21:44 thestringpuller Care to elaborate? :P
21:44 asciilifeform thestringpuller: see log for one example
21:44 mircea_popescu mike_c how would i even know ?
21:45 thestringpuller !s router spookware
21:45 assbot 0 results for 'router spookware' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=router+spookware
21:45 decimation that's a good point, usg cannot simultaneously recognize another sovereign country and also say 'give legit rulers all ur bits'
21:45 mike_c you wouldn't know, you'd have an opinion
21:45 thestringpuller asciilifeform: any keywords you can give me? ;)
21:45 asciilifeform !s edgerouter
21:45 assbot 10 results for 'edgerouter' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=edgerouter
21:45 thestringpuller thank you for that asciilifeform
21:45 asciilifeform ^ experiment with building a fairly decent home router
21:45 decimation I use the edgerouter with built-in firmware, it definitely performs
21:46 decimation one day soon I will try to re-write with bsd
21:47 mats does anyone here actually expect qntra to pay for itself?
21:47 thestringpuller me
21:47 asciilifeform if you have external ssh open (why?) into the thing, keep in mind that recent versions of freebsd had diddled rng
21:47 asciilifeform (proven fact)
21:47 asciilifeform see log
21:47 decimation I don't see need for router to talk to outside world
21:48 decimation (other than through nat)
21:48 mats asciilifeform: iirc that was not a stable release
21:48 asciilifeform in freebsd world plenty of folks don't use -STABLE
21:51 mats and why is that
21:51 asciilifeform !up mircea_popescu
21:52 mircea_popescu mike_c well, i think on the mid term qntra has better earning perspectives than whatsapp.
21:54 asciilifeform 'Because we have got to be willing as a nation to have a dialogue. This simplistic characterization of one-side-is-good and one-side-is-bad is a terrible place for us to be as a nation. We have got to come to grips with some really hard, fundamental questions. I’m watching risk and threat do this, while trust has done that. No matter what your view on the issue is [... snipped crapolade]'
21:54 asciilifeform !s teaching the controversy
21:54 assbot 7 results for 'teaching the controversy' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=teaching+the+controversy
21:54 decimation the thing is, you need to learn to do what I say
21:55 asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=12-09-2014#827667 http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=12-09-2014#827668 http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-11-2014#926289 http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-11-2014#926290
21:55 assbot Logged on 12-09-2014 16:47:05; asciilifeform: once you've been 'taught the controversy' - that is, convincing that there -even is- reasonable debate among informed people, on a particular subject - the lie becomes a kind of half-truth, automagically
21:55 assbot Logged on 12-09-2014 16:47:19; asciilifeform: because suddenly, there is (or you think there is) a debate. with 'sides.'
21:55 assbot Logged on 17-11-2014 04:48:53; asciilifeform: what's more, this follows inescapably from any situation, anywhere, where someone gets to 'score nonzero points' merely for showing up.
21:55 assbot Logged on 17-11-2014 04:49:54; asciilifeform: all you have to do, then, is to pile on the meat puppets, until suddenly there is a 'controversy', and there are 'points of view', and eventually - a 'consensus.'
21:55 decimation 'one point of view is that usg should have all ur bits'
21:56 mircea_popescu "we must pull together" is the age old statist refrain.
21:56 decimation things are getting better comrades
21:56 mircea_popescu sure, we'll pull together : come swear fealty to me. bring me your daughters, let me name the head of each usg agency
21:56 mircea_popescu then we'll pull together just fine.
21:57 mircea_popescu obv, not exactly what's being contemplated with the "pull together" talk
21:57 decimation "MR: I think we can work our way through this."
21:57 thestringpuller mircea_popescu: who would you name head of CIA?
21:57 mircea_popescu danielpbarron
21:58 danielpbarron ya?
21:58 mircea_popescu sure, why not.
21:58 asciilifeform l0l 'fantasy usg'
21:58 asciilifeform BingoBoingo ^
21:58 mircea_popescu "pull together" usg.
21:58 danielpbarron oh i thought you were asking if i was here; didn't realize i just got nominated to run the .. CIA!?
21:58 mircea_popescu sure. have fun.
21:59 danielpbarron i will not spare the whip.
22:09 mircea_popescu britni's back.
22:10 asciilifeform but who molested her
22:11 mircea_popescu https://bitbet.us/bet/786/bitcoin-to-surpass-berkshire-as-an-investment/#c4617
22:11 assbot BitBet - Bitcoin to surpass Berkshire as an investment :: 1121.15 B (20%) on Yes, 4393.47 B (80%) on No | closed 1 week 4 days ago ... ( http://bit.ly/1DcnimO )
22:11 mircea_popescu "i don't remember seeing before the parts i don't like seeing today"
22:13 * asciilifeform missed the gigantic 'no' bets after september's series
22:13 thestringpuller lol bitbet is loading real slow today
22:14 mircea_popescu in other news, http://40.media.tumblr.com/ecdea68078cfd3012de4b5bcda14f134/tumblr_mf6t4ill071rytnogo1_1280.jpg
22:14 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1DcnEtF )
22:14 asciilifeform !up decimation
22:15 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: l0l!!!
22:16 TheNewDeal ;;bids 216.9
22:16 gribble Bitstamp | There are currently 4213.9171 bitcoins demanded at or over 216.9 USD, worth 952292.397478 USD in total. | Data vintage: 0.0219 seconds
22:17 trinque mircea_popescu: nice jurassic park poster
22:18 cazalla trinque, lulz i just thought that
22:18 cazalla "oh, jurassic park"
22:19 cazalla is the other one the little mermaid?
22:19 mircea_popescu lol
22:28 decimation asciilifeform: http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/psychology-journal-bans-significance-testing/ < teaching the statistics 'controversy'
22:28 assbot Psychology Journal Bans Significance Testing « Science-Based Medicine ... ( http://bit.ly/1DcpHO9 )
22:28 decimation 'nobody understands what p-values mean so let's ban them'
22:28 asciilifeform lulzies
22:28 asciilifeform who the fuck even cares what these clowns do now.
22:29 asciilifeform let them stand on head, crap in own mouth
22:29 decimation surprisingly when left to their own devices they choose... more clownishness
22:31 decimation related: http://www.slate.com/articles/life/education/2015/02/university_hiring_if_you_didn_t_get_your_ph_d_at_an_elite_university_good.html?wpsrc=fol_fb < The data revealed that just a quarter of all universities account for 71 to 86 percent of all tenure-track faculty in the U.S. and Canada in these three fields. Just 18 elite universities produce half of all computer science professors, 16 schools produce half of all business
22:31 assbot University hiring: If you didn't get your Ph.D. at an elite university, good luck finding an academic job. ... ( http://bit.ly/1DXSDPi )
22:31 decimation professors, and eight schools account for half of all history professors.
22:37 decimation http://tgeonetta.com/cost-of-living-vs-salary-best-cities-for-software-developers-and-engineers/ < heh. apparently programmers in the new york 'profit' about $16k per year
22:37 assbot Cost of Living vs Salary – Best Cities for Software Developers and Engineers | Tyler Geonetta ... ( http://bit.ly/1DXTMqh )
22:38 decimation with that, good night
22:38 asciilifeform probably skewed by handful of 'quants'
22:40 thestringpuller asciilifeform: i just learned the gasenwagen was invented by the russians
22:41 asciilifeform according to one version, there was a ru wagen in the '30s
22:41 thestringpuller The gas van was invented in the Soviet Union in 1936, by Isay Berg, the head of the administrative and economic department of the NKVD of Moscow Oblast which suffocated batches of prisoners with engine fumes in a camouflaged bread van while on the drive out to the mass graves at Butovo, where the prisoners were subsequently buried.
22:42 asciilifeform iirc ^ was a bit of a 'ufo', based on hearsay
22:44 thestringpuller The gas van was invented in the Soviet Union in 1936, by Isay Berg, the head of the administrative and economic department of the NKVD of Moscow Oblast which suffocated batches of prisoners with engine fumes in a camouflaged bread van while on the drive out to the mass graves at Butovo, where the prisoners were subsequently buried.
22:44 thestringpuller OOPS
22:44 thestringpuller "A converted 24-seat bus, the execution van keeps the appearance of a normal police van on the outside with no markings indicating its purpose. The rear of the vehicle houses a windowless chamber where the execution takes place. Several cameras are present and feed closed-circuit televisions in the front of the van; a recording can be made if desired. The bed itself slides out of the wall under its own power, on which the convi
22:45 asciilifeform ^ chinese injection bus
22:45 * danielpbarron didn't realize the wagon itself did the gassing
22:45 asciilifeform danielpbarron: in the german variant
22:45 danielpbarron i thought it was like the trains that took people to the camps
22:46 * thestringpuller wonders when US will have their version.
22:48 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 26300 @ 0.00041298 = 10.8614 BTC [+] {3}
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23:20 mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=26-02-2015#1034069 >> http://38.media.tumblr.com/8549e983b82f586a7b5211530c13aa25/tumblr_mw2l1tYpSl1ra163eo7_250.gif
23:20 assbot Logged on 26-02-2015 02:54:26; asciilifeform: !s teaching the controversy
23:20 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1DVtIdS )
23:23 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 21346 @ 0.00042119 = 8.9907 BTC [+]
23:35 thestringpuller i have no idea what is going on in that gif
23:45 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 83950 @ 0.00041015 = 34.4321 BTC [-]
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