Governments outside of the so-called five eyes nations are outraged over the
prism and tempora sniffing programmes. However you can't change a dumb user
to not encrypt, in fact it's hard to encrypt for most people. I'm afraid
there is no easy way, but perhaps the fabric of the Internet can be re-woven
in such a way that prism and tempora have a harder time gaining data. Let's
pretend government said "we want you to use P2P protocols" and really
encourages it. With P2P a lot of data is moved and it goes in all directions.
I believe it would be a good initiative when you can't use encryption. Other
than that perhaps develop Operating Systems and crypto systems outside of the
USA and Britain in order to offset the current status quo. Also the structure
of the Internet shouldn't just be a grand trunk with subnets, it should be a
mesh and a mesh of hubs. Think about this last line a bit.
Ever wonder where the sun is (constellation) when it's northern solstice?
Look how Jupiter is occulted by the sun. Not sure if it's the right term but
does that mean it's at opposition? I thought this fact was special. Jupiter
behind sun at solstice, both in the constellation of Taurus almost in Gemini.
Can you feel their gravity pulling on you?
I usually give out the
solstice and equinoxes a
few days before. So the
northern solstice is upon us again. This is when the sun is at 90 degrees
with the northern
tropic,
tropic of cancer. This means summer in the
northern hemisphere (officially), and winter in the southern hemisphere.
Can you imagine snowfall in the patagonia region of south america? I can't
because summer is here in europe, but it may be true.
After the sun reaches the tropic of cancer it turns around southward again,
until it crosses the equator, that's officially the southbound equinox also
called autumn equinox and will be the first day of fall in the northern
hemisphere.
I once programmed a web bot that would grab the index of random IP's out there.
After running it a few days, I got a not-so-nice email from my german VPS
provider that I was running malware, a certain virus. And they asked me to
do something / stop. So my initial attempts failed at becoming a search
engine. Now then in the german spiegel.de website someone has quoted the
german interior ministers as saying they want a german Google to keep
information local (and possibly also have the local three letter organisation
spy on the data). They did say that the markets won't allow it in spiegel.
And I think they are right, due to my previous attempts of running a bot.
Now if they are serious they'll have to open the Internet in terms of freedoms.
Google only succeeded to become the #1 search engine because they could do
anything they wanted, ranging from 1) doing anything they wanted with their
web crawlers (googlebot), 2) doing anything technically possible with network
technologies (BGP, IX's), 3) getting a googol worth of funding. There is
possibly more that I'm not listing here. I believe I have some (little) insider
knowledge (to online advertising) because I worked for a competitor to
doubleclick which is now a
part of google. Back then we thought about how we could collect as much data
as possible to help us target advertising to respective people. We brainstormed
a lot and tried to get access to these technologies. One find we had was that
in internal IP data the BGP Autonomous System number was valuable to correlate
where someone was. But it was not easy getting a BGP link, in fact to get there
you have to be reasonably large and have cooperation of carriers to provide the
redundant links to one. We weren't big enough and only had a single link to
UUnet.ca, and hosted at Tier 2+3 providers. I believe because we could not
make that curve that the company I worked for went out of business.
Back to my initial webcrawler. I developed technology to crawl websites. I
used this technology but was probhibited by administrative rules. Had I been
able to continue I may have been able to make a business out of this. Slowly
growing (had I wanted to do that) and perhaps gaining value beyond runnign the
crawler on a VPS, perhaps a dedicated server next, then a colo, and then my
own network. The dream had endless possibilities at its inception and was
cut short by the markets (prohibitative administrative rules). Had I been
able to continue who knows what would have happened. Given no resistance
the possibilities are a Googool (10^100)!
Don't let my expression fool you. I'm very satisfied. It's just that I've
been in a grumpy mood for the last two days so I don't look all that happy.
The video was recorded on OpenBSD with my webcam, I reworked the audio with
audacity on OpenBSD and converted both videos with ffmpeg from avi into their
respective formats. To get the .m4v format you have to recompile ffmpeg on
OpenBSD though. I'm considering doing a lot more video blog entries so you
may as well get used to it, plus it may make it harder for the NSA to gain
anything useful.
I have been creating apps since last year. All of these were from examples
found on youtube. So then I finally got around my provisioning problems at
Apple and ran one app on my ipod. Now I know that it works I'm going to be
switching to one of my books for creating IOS apps. There is a steep learning
curve to master. But it'll be fun as I can run the code on my ipod now and
play with it. I have also ordered 3 more books in a discounted deal from
amazon.com. When I get them I'll released their names. But they deal with
IOS 6. I know, I know IOS 7 will be out soon but when it does come out I'll
be buying IOS 7 books too.
So what sort of app do I want to build for download in the app store? Hmm.
Well I had thought about building an app that doubles as a mouse pointer for
a computer. Basically you connect to the computer with wifi, network or
bluetooth and enter a password, then whatever you move over the ipod's glass
surface gets translated on the computers X11 display. It will need a custom
X11 mouse driver as well, which shouldn't be too hard I believe as sourcecode
for other mouse drivers exists. Once this project is finished I want to
start building the interface for a virtual ipod (in virtual reality). So that
you can have goggles on and have an ipod which you see in VR space. You also
see Apps on this Ipod that don't exists in reality but moving your finger
along the surface causes movement in the virtual reality and you can tap it
and it will respond and such. That's phase two, but I'm only focusing on
phase one right now.
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