2013-10-31.log

--- Log opened Thu Oct 31 00:00:10 2013
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Tukotih_paperbot: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/mds.20145/abstract04:25
paperbothttp://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/paperbot/9f63b1bad2a3f8b5256ab8b2129e2829.txt04:26
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@kanzurebleep bloop08:58
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ParahSailinblorp08:59
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@kanzurethis is a surprisingly okay list of reasons http://hackaday.com/2013/05/06/the-first-3d-printed-gun-has-been-fired-and-i-dont-care/14:14
@kanzurei would have expected more BS14:14
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ashleywafflehttp://www.indiegogo.com/projects/bitcoin-dark-wallet16:36
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@kanzureyashgaroth: sup19:51
yashgarothlogs've been giving me a 403 for the past few days19:52
@kanzureyeah we got linked in the news19:52
yashgarothsay whaaat19:52
@kanzurensh has been accused of hacking "thousands of military networks"19:53
@kanzureand then they link straight to these logs "about biohacking"19:53
@kanzurefigured it would be prudent to disable that for a day or two19:54
yashgarothlink to article?19:54
@kanzurehttp://rt.com/usa/lauri-love-anonymous-lastresort-853/19:54
@kanzurehttp://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/28/us-briton-hacking-charges-nasa-lauri-love19:55
yashgarothdang19:57
@kanzurei don't think it's really true though. there's a lot of weird inconsistencies in their claims.19:58
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yashgarothwell I guess they wouldn't publish methods on how they got the chatlogs or PMs or whatever, but the only actual evidence I see cited is that an 'internet domain' that he paid for with a paypal linked to his public email was used for hax20:11
@kanzurewhich seems suspicious to me if he was actually using tor20:12
yashgarotha literally unbelievably stupid move20:13
yashgarothnot to mention 'changed his nickname on IRC', like that dude who kept coming in last week with the same IP and bugging paperbot20:13
@kanzureyeah, nsh isn't known for doing stupid things like that20:15
@kanzurealso i have found a fairly accurate video that describes how transcranial ultrasound works: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQjVN13dI1020:24
yashgarothapparently 'microconcussion' is not a word20:28
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dingototal recall is playing on TBS23:31
dingoi think this was a PKD novel23:31
dingobiohacking related though right :-)23:31
dingohehe23:31
nmz787you're rght it was PKD's23:31
nmz787just finished Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?23:31
dingooh thats a great book23:33
nmz787it seemed like an oversight that they had hovercars, but no cell phones.23:33
dingohehe23:33
dingoit was written in maybe 1980 or so23:33
dingoi think what i really liked about that book is the personality23:34
nmz7871968 first published23:34
nmz787but still radio had been around since the turn of the century23:34
dingoi dont read a lot of PKD, maybe only 4 or 5 of his books all the way through23:34
dingo2 of them i couldn't even finish23:34
dingothey were just too abstract23:34
nmz787hmm23:34
nmz787this has been my only23:34
dingobut that one really sold me23:34
nmz787having to read Oryx and Crake now23:34
nmz787also starts with bio weirdness23:35
dingohad to google that one, never heard of it23:35
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dingohmm i may have read at least one of her other works though23:36
dingoi recently went through some 1980's sci fi collections23:36
nmz787i'm in a scifi lit class now23:37
dingousually i read 1970's and older23:37
nmz787fit the requirement for a class i need to get my degree23:37
dingowow thats one class i wouldn't drop out of hehe23:37
nmz787lol23:37
nmz787we last read brave new world23:37
nmz787which also lacked cell phones23:37
dingobah i didn't like that one at all23:38
nmz787it was only dystopian because of the culture, I didn't really see any blame in their tech23:38
dingoi dunno why, maybe i was too young, like 16, when i read it23:38
dingoi do like dystopian future books23:39
dingoor movies for that matter23:39
dingoit seemed pop-culture-centric23:39
dingonever was a fan of that, in the future or the present23:40
nmz787hah, that's what made it dystopian for me!23:40
dingosometimes i read cliff notes or some such afterwards and go wow maybe it -was- a good book hahaha23:41
dingothe internet has really spoiled good reading23:41
nmz787lol23:41
nmz787i have the audio books for 3 of 4 req readings for this class23:41
dingoi like dune by frank herbert and foundation series by asimov for their length23:41
nmz787first two were highly abridged though, so glad i read along23:41
dingoi worked at a factory when i read those books23:41
dingoreally nice to have hundreds of pages of good story to daydream about during the day23:42
nmz787haven't read them, closest I've come to dune is watching Beetlejuice (there was a scene with sand worms, I think referencing dune)23:42
dingoha never thought of that, but yeah23:42
dingodune is very spiritual, almost muslim-inspired23:42
nmz787hmm23:42
dingovery weird stuff, but great storyline23:42
dingopolitical stuff worth paying attention to23:43
dingofoundation series has this great premise, that there is some mathematical way of predicting future possibilities, some new kind of scientific math or some such23:43
dingoi forget what they called it, psychometrics or something23:43
dingothere becomes some hidden race of ppl who just carefully adjust the timeline now and then for good outcomes23:44
dingothen part-way through the series, a 'mutant' is born, something unpredictable, fucks it all up23:44
dingoanyway its long as hell lol23:44
dingowhen i first saw it i was like i'll never finish this23:45
dingobut i couldn't put it down for some reason23:45
nmz787hah, the kind of book you read walking down the street despite just running into a telephone pole because of not watching out.23:45
nmz787i was reading my phone walking the other day and freaked myself out, thinking i was about to walk into a pole23:46
nmz787turned out to be air.23:46
dingoha23:46
dingoif you can find the hugo award winners and nebula award winners volumes you won't be dissapointed23:46
dingosometimes i think they awarded some folk just for writing very very very strange stories, that aren't very good, but just because they wanted to encourage 'pushing the boundires', like harlan ellison23:47
dingobut 90% of them are great, and they're short novels/short stories, so they're usually finishable within a night23:47
dingothey also had awards for full-length novels, but you won't find them in a single book23:47
dingoi used to have all of analog science fiction & science fact, 1969-1988, i recently donated that all away to the library, i miss them even though i read them all, they were monthly subscription magazintes of science fiction23:48
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dingoman i love science fiction hehe23:48
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dingowas just talking to a coworker and he recommended some for me to read... thinking bout getting my library card here and reading more23:49
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nmz787I am on the fence as to whether I like reading fiction anymore23:49
dingoits just nice to have something interesting to excersize your thoughts with23:49
dingooh i was completely against reading ficiton for a long time23:49
dingoi read only strictly scientific or technical books for a long time23:50
nmz787watching it I'm more OK with because I can zone out and do other computer stuff if I get bored... or if my girlfriend is wanting to watch something more than I do23:50
dingoscience fiction is the only fiction i read hehe23:50
dingoi think its healthy23:50
nmz787there was someone in another IRC room that was writing some scifi, gave them some links to real science stuff that they were trying to create in their story23:51
dingoits given me new, interesting perspectives on things in this world, its helped matured my morals, ego, thoughts, etc.23:51
nmz787i guess the links I gave them didn't fit exactly their creature, but they were pretty good for realistic/plausible evolutionary starting points23:51
nmz787thinking about morals is an interesting way I've also looked at it23:52
dingothe best science fiction stretches concepts found in this world, twists them around in some alternate reality, but makes you realize something new and different about this seemingly normal world we're in23:53
dingosimple things like racism among creatures, you can understand it much more clearly when neither are human23:54
nmz787yeah23:54
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