well, im still waiting for CSPAN to include the video I talk about in the journal entry below into their internet archives.

Can you help?

Contact by email:
Mailto: online@c-span.org

About (try to mix up the words/ideas at least a little):

John Chambers (ceo of cisco (the most profitable tech company in the world)) making a very interesting speech to the national governors association in july2002. CSPAN did cover this back then, its just Im asking it be included in the permanent online archives (not just the temporary archives for current material). CSPAN has almost nothing in its archives on this important american company, and this video is an excellent example of the government interfacing with technology. This video exposes us techies to a high powered interaction, at a very top level (50 governors grilling chambers), between a member of the tech industry and what we perceive as a technologically stale government

More:
Here
OR
simply http://www.google.com/search?q=john+chambers+national+governors+association

And spread the word of this.

So if you send an email , please leave a comment saying so :-)

I have something really big brewing that I wish to dissemenate via this journal, but I'm waiting for the forces that be over at cspan.org to put up a video in their online archive. Its a recording of John Chambers (cisco ceo), addressing a meeting of the National Governors Assocation http://www.nga.org/nga/newsRoom/1,1169,C_PRESS_RELEASE%5ED_4054,00.html. I watched it online via cspan when it was still just being repeated b/c it had recently been aired (but its not in the more permanent collection).

Anyway, Im not going to comment on what im brewing, but looking at that link above i'd like to take a segue (hahaha, yes its spelt thusly).

I only assume that the link above is generated by some stupid content management system. It's perfectly acceptable within the context of the internet; however, imagine trying to communicate such a link to a person in an audio conversation (in person or over the phone)....

If you don't know the person, and you're trying to lobby an idea (hint hint), its amazingly annoying to transmit such unwieldy information. Imagine: you'd have to read it slowly to them, and then politely ask them to confirm it....Morever, as we are social beings, the person you just shared it with, might want to share it with others...and so forth. Lots of bad potential karma here. In all actuality, its sometimes easier to ask them to google for the term, in fact if you google for "john chambers national governors association" the number 1 hit will be the above link. But this is not a reliable process at all, and its not really designed for this purpose im trying to give it.

Another examples of this from my daily adventures https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsourceforge.net%2Fdocman%2Fdisplay_doc.php%3Fdocid%3D6695%26amp;group_id=1#projectweb.

I've actually chatted with the sourceforge devs, and they say one of the longest,nagging feature requests is to clean up the url structure.

Anyway, this is just sort of interesting eh? It really gives you a sense of the contrast shown in the interface between the internet machine, and the global-human machine. If you don't get me here, maybe you would like to look at one of my self deeemed favorite comments here on the /

So, if you want to cleanly and humanly communicate information outside the context of the internet machine, i've found some free web services that have developed out of the demand for easy communication. Basically, they let you give them a complex, hairy link and they'll give you a temporary link (in a clean manner) that will resolve to the original.

Eg: http://makeashorterlink.com or purl.com or sow.as . It's quite a simply idea and could be executed with less than 10 lines of code ;-).

Re: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/05/1933223 Its cool that I was born pretty close to the time that personal computers were coming into existance (well 4 years after 1978). When I was actually born, personal computers still had no hard drive. Heh, but in those days, all u did was hack around on your machine. Itd be cool if u could find someone that hacked on a circular tape drive.

Anyway, purely pondering. I actually dont care too much for any concrete answers.

Its not like I'm a satanist at all, but I mean...look at the fuck which apple brought forth.

http://churchofsatan.com/Pages/Apple.html

You can also use the above text to familiarize yourself with legalese, and legal reasoning. And the latency to expect around legal issues.

It'll only be so much longer that a lawyer will make 10x more than I. And it will only be so much longer until we have such positions like code janitor (a low level position for cleaning up code). Maybe even under a union like this: http://www.corporatemofo.com/stories/030119union.htm

Cause god fucking dammit do I need health insurance.

Here's a "fuck you" to the USA and its non-socialist health situation.

If you've ever seen my signature,

"One day, our computers and books were wiped away from us. Where would you begin"

You might wonder what its all about. Well....when I first started exposing myself to algorithms and technology (about 2 years ago), I had a beserk paranoid doomsday knee-jerk reaction.

I envisioned a standard matrix/terminator plot. Anyway, it still fuels a bit of paranoia, and my sig is inspired by the idea that we will inflict upon ourselves some doomsday type force, or that we will be required to do so to stop some other super species we helped create. Told ya, plain ol vanilla terminator/matrix.

Anyway, In some sick type of way, Im very insterested in the time after an apocalypse. I have lots of fun imagining what would need to be done for a group of people to restore technology. So for some reason ;-) I think metal wire is like super necessary, and I never knew how it was made. .

I found out .

Basicaly the wire can start off as pressed/rolled metal. Then it is gradually "annealed" down by drawing it through successively smaller dies (or little holes). A lubricant helps the die from wearing.

So with wire we can have electrical motors.... and then we can have the ability to transfer that electricity.....

Back to reality , I think the most important thing needed is a general sense of ethics among people that work with AI. Engineers take mandatory ethics courses and all they architect is briges. AI creates are the architects of our future and they are held to nothing.

Even though this is retarded sounding, I think one of the keys to programming is what I like to call ' fencepost thinking'. I KNOW that so many of my programming errors result from the troubles associated with these fencepost errors (FE). I think there should be a course for any scientific degree that simply exposes the students to lots of fencepost type problems involving many layers of it.

In a given program, once you have multiple FE's whose wrongs propagate through the program, then you are really in more trouble.

If anything, the above course would simply develop a person's mind into being able to better identify when you might need to turn on 'FP awareness mode'.

I have some other keys to programming, but I need to think about them more clearly.

Not bad for 46years old eh?

http://www.ellimedeiros.com/logz/photos/

Here's a few things that I wish would just go away:

Hardware that comes out in cycles more than year.

I was thinking..."you know, what are some examples of systems that have already existed for a long time, and are just as complex as computers"? Well...basically, its not furniture. Its the automobile.

When you go for auto parts,for example, you ask for a clutch for a '94 honda civic, and they know exactly what you need.

I dearly hope that after 20 years, we'll see SOME normalization of this highly asynchronous release process.

Yet, its funny, software wise, the most conservative projects like redhat or mozilla still release sort of buggy shit.

Apple's done a decent job, only 1 paradigm shift in the last 10 years (OSX). Whereas microsoft shoves a new paradigm shift down our throats every 3 years...because they can afford to.

An essay that is sort of a culmination of my thinking over the past few months.

I've moved it to wikipedia so that it can be versioned (and pretty-diffed) each time I add to it.

http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Hfastedge/essays/swdevel

After a fire killed many people in 1 internet cafe, china decides to shutdown 3000+
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/2608305.stm
They state its for safety reasons, but this is unlikely.

Over the years, I somewhat appreciate the vibe I get when reading about china, but events like these just piss me off. They need to reform the social atmosphere within the government so they stop misbehaving like this.

Maybe, just just maybe, china's approach does produce the global maximum (of peace/well being...) but I think that this example is merely a greedy algorithm.

In contrast, the other communist force, that I actually directly interface with, Debian, is always hesitant to do things because this might disrupt the precious users experience. However, debian is no where near the billions of users level....I would be surprised if there were more then 2-4 million debianites. I'll find out

As to the debian vs. gentoo stuff...I didnt finish the comment, but basically Im pissed that gentoo REALLY reinvented a lot of wheels without trying to make use of debian's base of package maintainers. To this end, I think that _most_ of the whines of these herd mentality gentooers could be solved by debian having an i686 distro, so im rousing the debian-devel list on this (whereas the other gentooers could simply do with an version of debian's package management system rewritten in python to _ADDRESS_!! all the downfalls of the current system.

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I ate some wack combination of food last night: (spaghettios (yes, i had a craving), mango peach applesauce, 1 fresh red bell pepper). *Possibly* this was it, although I suspect maybe not; but, I woke up 2 hrs into my sleep with so much pain in my back, it was my intestines....Even using the toilet for 30 minutes didnt do anything. I felt nauseous and cold, so I took a bath. Anyway, I proceeded to puke really hard. This was the remains of dinner,which was in there at least 3-4 hours and was really acidic. I was gasping for air during the puking, and took some in the nose, this hurt really bad. Over the next 5 minutes, the acid made my gums feel like they were being treated with.....acid. And it was doing worse to the more sensitive breathing tract. I think my body reacted by creating tons of mucus. But my nose/throat was killing me for the next 20 minutes, AND every time I drank water it tasted sooo sweet and nasty (from the mango, but where was it coming from?). Finally, I snorted hard enough, and a piece of pepper (not hot, but still painful) came out from deep within my nose/throat and another 5 minutes later. The sweet taste started going away. I cleaned up my bathroom and went to sleep. 2 hours later I wake up itching all over the place with hives. Having not really had these often, I was scared from the night of trauma i had, and took myself to the ER (last time I was sick, and didnt do anything about it, I figured out the next day I had a snake bite, and was real lucky even though I didnt seek treatment).

Anyway, Im feeling pretty ok now. No way was I going to pop pills to make it all go away like america teaches us. I wish there was a non-quacky eastern style emergency room around here. But wtf, Im in texas.

Anyway,

I noticed that theres like 400 people in the gentoo chatroom on freenode. Thats very close to the amount in debian.

I know what gentoo "is", a package system where you compile your own packages, but has the perks of dependency information.

So I go into this chatroom and ask:
are there any performance comparisons of gentoo vs. debian?

I get "not really".

So I make the conclusion...(wtf is the point of gentoo and its 'building packages on your own is faster for YOU the user....' in its apple-like marketronease IF IF IF they don't even have data to support their package build method's (or lack of) benefits).

Next, however, is the valid issue that gentoo might have a better package management system than debian(which is by far the biggest distro out there). I would rather see a pythonized version of apt that addresses all the issues, this would directly benefit from its use of all debian's maintainer system (which holds things back....hmm...thinking....comment later.

Here is some really horrible hate poetry out of the recesses of my conscious.
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whats with that blank look your face shows me,
yeah, I feel that short sighted impatience from your cerebrum that i should worship as your anger

well, go fuck yourself some sympathy moron. yeah, a family.
please! eat some more meat onto you so you can beat me up even worse.

muthapffFFUCKA!
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http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=47383&cid=4847920

Sure, I can understand buying copies to support OpenBSD. I buy Redhat for the same reason, it's more principle than the actual material in the box.

You are correct. There's a slight difference, though, OpenBSD is not trying to turn a profit, just cover the development costs.

This is a poor mindset. Its a reactionary mindset. It's a reaction that seeks approval. Its slightly
better than just plain ol 'X is not for profit' because it actually qualifies why.

There is nothing wrong with profit. It absolutely
has the potential to get abused, but you need
profit in order to do research.

Sure, its the nature of the capitalist company to keep itself alive until it has to file itself bankrupt and given this, we are used to seeing companies not dissolve after the demand goes away that lead to its initial success. And *A* primary way to keep itself vigorous is through R & D. Although to simply sustain itself (and this mainly applies in the software industry), I suppose it could simply continue to pay its employees.

Anyway, this is just another reaction to some of that braindead collective unconcious out there.

Peace!

My history teacher from highschool, mr dickey, a vietnam veteran who appeared pretty balanced with respec to his time there, got me thinking about the topic "how to affect social change" when I was in his class.

The article below, about the spammer millionaire that got his dose of medicine, is a good example of how people are protesting in this day and age.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/06/1554227

I don't think that human beings are capable of effective physical protest. In the physical presence of each other, people's cerebrums usually take over, and there is lots of fighting.

EG: any WTO meeting, vietnam protests, tianammen...

For those of you that cannot see it, the internet allows for less violent forms of social protest, and hence, its truly more effective for all parties.

Unfortunality,given the current materialism of american culture, you'd probably find yourself in jail for a lot longer of a time if you are part of a group that DDOS'ed the spam king as opposed to had a stinky protest on his front lawn.

With time, the stigmas should fade, and digital expression will evolve. Although, the rights to digital expression are currently being decided for us. Which makes sense, the status quo is always sought to be preserved. So I find arguing for digital freedom for the sake of digital freedom bullshyte.