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"Google and the World Brain" (2013)
by Gregory Foster 06 Jan '14

06 Jan '14

thoughtmaybe (Jan 5) - "Google and the World Brain": http://thoughtmaybe.com/google-and-the-world-brain/?lang=en > In 2002, quietly and behind closed doors, the Internet giant Google began to scan millions of books in an effort to create a privatised giant global library, containing every book in existence. Not only this, but they claimed they had an even greater purpose–to create a higher form of intelligence, something that HG Wells had predicted in his 1937 essay “World Brain”. Working with the world’s most prestigious libraries, Google was said to be reinventing the limits of copyright in the name of free access to anyone, anywhere. But what can possibly be wrong with this picture? As Google and the World Brain reveals, a whole lot. Some argue that Google’s actions represent aggressive theft on an enormous scale, others see it as an attempt to monopolise our shared cultural heritage, and still others view the project as an attempt to flatten our minds by consolidating complex ideas into searchable “extra-long tweets” for the screen. > At first slowly, and then with intensifying conviction, a diverse coalition of authors and others mobilise to stop the ambitious project. Google and the World Brain explores this high-stakes story with an important alternative voice to the technological utopianism of our age. http://www.worldbrainthefilm.com/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2551516/ https://twitter.com/worldbrainfilm Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZkdkobK99A Thanks to Michael Allan for the pointer to thoughtmaybe.com via libtech, https://mailman.stanford.edu/pipermail/liberationtech/2013-August/010908.ht… HT their email announcement list: http://thoughtmaybe.com/subscribe/ gf P.S. - H.G. Wells' collection of essays and addresses, _World Brain_: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Brain Including "The Idea of a Permanent World Encyclopaedia", his "[c]ontribution to the new Encyclopédie Française, August, 1937": https://sherlock.ischool.berkeley.edu/wells/world_brain.html > Quietly and sanely this new encyclopaedia will, not so much overcome > these archaic discords, as deprive them, steadily but imperceptibly, > of their present reality. -- Gregory Foster || gfoster(a)entersection.org @gregoryfoster <> http://entersection.com/

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drumming (urls)
by brian carroll 06 Jan '14

06 Jan '14

if (strcmp() > t= engine_get(t)) {?format=<lucid|achilles>... --- drums & music --- In Speed Metal, Fastest Drummers Take a Beating Few Humans Can Keep Up in Battle With Drum Machines http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230459160457928853112603… [q] When new technologies arrived, metal drumming standards entered the realm of the physically impossible. [/q] /* so i read the above article and it reminded me of some issues perhaps correlatable with computing today.... i have thought about this a lot after taking up electronic drums for music therapy, learning via self-study, to benefit from the rewiring of circuits and coordination, etc. very much like juggling actually, these two realms combining, and also extending into processing concepts in terms of looping and sequencing of patterns. first, there is so much going on that shares a fundamental limit with how music is conceived of and limited to an outdated paradigm based on perceptual awareness, that the framework of ordinary approaches normally assumes an absolute frame of one-way movement in time of a coordinated group led by a conductor, and this is how music is processed, organized, how songs are defined, relations, instruments designed, etc. like a rationalization in a given view that then may not allow other dynamics in that controlled domain, even, if not due to heresy what this leads to is a technical approach, to refinement, where virtuosity is tied to speed and dexterity and memory, repeating over and over older code performances as flawless as possible, within a range of interpretation though in a finite or contained or bounded way. this extended into radio, recordings or copies of originals, and mp3s, copies of copies, then carrying on this ~music or sound-information or patterning, people training to repeat play the code via lifelong training of authority-based instruction, yet the ideas and concepts fixed in a narrow range of thinking, as if music itself has become its own notation. music as signage. the language of music overtaking the music of music, as its truth. rote performance in a sense. so the assumption arrives at a song if successful, plays eternally, via endless concerts and furtherance by others repeating the code. instead of, perhaps a song only exists in its truth once, in a singular instance, and then it is another song, and cannot be recaptured the same. also: that there are experts or musicians, education needed to play complicated instruments whose interfaces are cryptic to the uninitiated if not musicians themselves, by technical design or engineers who make equipment, yet the _musicological questions have been removed from these same instruments, in their further development in an electronics-based context, especially with computing, where now instruments ship buggy and broken, designed to fail, and with artificial limits or constraints that prevent anything beyond existing bounds from being explored, to control and shape parameters that feed into existing industry automation, as if new music is another can of soup on assemblyline, volunteered or subsidized, paid for the ideal technical performer, to which technology itself aspires, is the robot musician who can function at speeds and with memory and dexterity and coordination humans cannot, and yet in this substitution or equivalence, the truth of music as more than repeated patterns is lost to a reductionist approach, where it is merely language as language, doing things yet at another more detached layer, perhaps even disconnected from a relational, emotional grounding via music, such that it becomes or is technique, only, music as technology, audio engineering with a pleasing aesthetic layer determined by polls and behavioral psychologists if it makes a brain wave peak or entrances a heart rhythm, therefore determining it is effective as an influence, meant to modify or control response, including salivation via music-video [video] A Mohawk Robot With Four Arms Is Playing The Drums... http://www.memecenter.com/fun/691462/a-mohawk-robot-with-four-arms-is-playi… [video] Robot Drummer Animatronic - By: Steve Joy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nUAi8kDR_4 ...thus, the future could be with a 'drummer' in a band that is a machine or automaton, a puppet or animatronic model with increased capacity to perform serial gymnastic sequences of patterns, and this could involve more than four limbs in-sync, as part of a core band-setup. (if you see a Chuck E. Cheese robot at a future concert- run!) Chuck E Cheese's Band https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEWiilxASZM SO-- MAYBE THINGS ARE ALREADY THIS FAR GONE... in terms of destruction of culture and robotic repetition of 'songs' as if babel, where meaning is replaced by pattern matching as a potential condition where music is a disconnect or escape or bubble condition or virtual layer of self that is sustained in the parameters of music, though this in a context of engineering and a loss of insight from music as music, or from 'new music instruments' via electronics, beyond a given conception that locks it into a realm of calculation and computation, versus a larger exploration of ideas and truth beyond previous limits of what music was conceived of, such that today music is a regression, several centuries caught in an inaccurate framework that perhaps results in its being an inward or introvertedness that is this interaction, lost to the reality of the present day, as if a dream-state yet in a negative dynamic, via detachment, as if a higher state or condition when instead perhaps ungrounded, unreal, fantasy, ego even, as if everyone wants to read eachother's diary and relate on these terms, then go buy stuff and copy one another and belong in the latest trend engineering, as if on gerbil wheel, used as engine and energy for cultural development in these devolved terms, against higher truth and greater relation than only what can be achieved within the contained, forced dynamics it doesn't need to be this way, yet that is where it is heading, seemingly without alternative, due to a status quo that is unquestioned (again, loss of culture, language, communication, and awareness to reason and agree and develop otherwise). so the ideal tends towards the future of this guy: Robot Drummer: “Spruce Deuce” http://highlyliquid.com/hl2012/blog/304 [video] Spruce Deuce v1.2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfVCmPT6l68 ...where, via archaic MIDI protocols, and further refinements, such an 'electronic drummer' or 'MIDI drummer' would be able to replace a drummer by technically playing or ~performing a score, in place of a person, yet able to do more than a person and at greater speed/accuracy if developed this way, while lacking in other parameters, like being a human, relations with others in the band on an intuitive level, (beyond those designed for intercommunication and control). for instance, if built-out of specs allowed it, perhaps such a drummer could keep up with "speed metal" genre drumming, who knows- maybe even puffs of smoke could emit from eyes and elbows, flames from ears, to bring in extra effects layers to bring the point home of what is going on- the superman as robotic emulation that surpasses functionality in a limited technical domain - minus actual awareness, musical ability, beyond repeating code if mimicry, though perhaps with AI, its own sensibility could develop, though as music it may remain ungrounded beyond its being about matched patterning, or so it seems highly likely that a gap exists between generating music off a midi-score as interpretation and someone having insight about what a song means or is about- though perhaps music is not this today or does not extend that principle into its technologicalization, where technique replaces it, thus the format, the hit song as pattern, remade over and over and over, played over and over, that level of mindwashing and brainwashing of media, commercials having more insight and truth than many songs in their at least attaining authenticity, honesty in communication than other more manipulative or hidden-profit behind fashion trends agenda of cult engineering, this multimedia spanning all of consumption, from ego to attitude to clothes to drugs to status to in-group out-group, as if everything is mediated as if a school hallway scene, that level of adolescence mainstreamed with geriatrics continuing the illusion, ultrahipcool (this is to critique music as marketing, as if a style that can be 'canned' into formatting that then contains its essential quality or value (truth) versus more superficial aspects of this that can involve mimicry or repetition of previous patterns, language as music, or music notation as if music itself, the code referencing itself for its validation and not connected or external truth, which then can become ungrounded from culture it supposed represents/describes. in this way it may not exist as general 'shared consciousness' as believed, even while marketed and profiting this way, an engine of success or business model, versus of aesthetic truth that communicates beyond these boundaries, into another realm of awareness, understanding, perhaps involving musical communication between individuals as a basis for computation or establishing social relations, a level of shared awareness based on music as foundation for literacy in its interdisciplinary depth) the gap is what, then. where. how. who (cannot ask that question). why. (probably not that either). the situation or context is... about a shift in culture, values, perception, including loss of awareness and understanding, governance, replaced by technical approaches, managers of other principles, developed into a remotely administrated and controlled framework. music. instruments. media. relations. skills. truth. consciousness. bound into this, held back by it, captured and contained with it. detached from self, group, and higher aesthetic functioning so in a pre-electric context, 'drums' once used for communication and signaling then evolve into a drum set, from marching band carrying around a bass drum and others snares, to putting these on the floor in a given arrangement and going at it within other parameters, that level of change and new consideration- big band era, then moving into mics and mixers and amplification-- and with electronics, presumably, the first drum machines, not unlike a lot of repetition-based rhythmic processes that could be programmed, yet with sound versus say telephone multiplexing via routers, etc. sound engineering and music production then having overlaps, a large electronics hobbyist dimension becoming an electronics industry in music via all the electronic gear, do-dads, extras, that help establish or create a given sound or noise, a signature, seemingly everything believed justified the resulting 'end products', or not. in that 'shaping a unique sound' may be at the expense or cost of retaining or accessing or developing music principles within instruments themselves, that functionality lost. instead turning to presets, of which add-ons then allow to be further tweaked, 'refined' as a 'unique signal', though not necessarily dealing with its production or possibilities prior to the condition of notation, as language, within those de/con-fined parameters and frameworks. (so everything is really special, though not necessarily meaningful as music, though as private communication that is capable of being modified to n-degrees, that is an effect for that, and a chain of them will be your own special sauce, as long as not sharing the electronics secrets though in these days, logfile and receipt snooping, someone will be able to piece it together and soon enough another clone of the sound will arrive out of central music formatting inc, and replace efforts with a chart-topping hypnotic hit, to selling fries at baseball games next. talk about the patriotrism, worksong. talk about the commercialism, musical careers today, infected by the celebrity worm as a basis for cultural communication within these parameters then also framing questions of music, feedback only in certain institutional views deemed ok to support the charade of one-way authority over this process, keeping questioning at bay) then things hit the wall. no progress beyond a certain point in music instruments in this 'new and improved' electronics context. like everything has been stuck in the 80s with equipment, excepting that of midi-controllers which makes the computer into the instrument, and music into a question of excel-like parameterization, and HTML-webpaged, canned production via tools and endless varieties of hot-swap software circuits, emulating plugboards & everything thus, the disemboweling of piano into keyboard controller that requires a computer to work as a sound-device, that can then be mapped to organ, synth, piano, or other sampled sounds. and somehow, via MIDI, the keyboard becomes the centerpiece and limit to further MIDI considerations, such that the piano-roll defines music in terms of its notation (sign=sign) and does not question possibilities or concepts of music beyond those so far technologized, such that dials, buttons, and switches, then map out this quasi-instrument as 'reading/writing' tool yet only in a very limited dictionary and with highly biased, warped selections to choose from and within that finite realm-- all music is allowed, yet nothing outside of its model is possible to explore. such that, sure you can play along to a preprogrammed hip-hop pattern, yet it is not possible to split a note geometrically, or move things in space-time, or program music in its code outside its being a representation - tape-recorder playback of given filtered action, in a linear, one-way, authority-based approach all based on a narrow approach to time, this embalmed in the MIDI spec, basically killing off potential for music in an electronic domain by turning it into a technical question with a given response, rationalization, set of choices; the question of music is absent in these tools, they are designed instead to produce copies of what already exists within parameters that already exist, that is the specific raison d'être the electronic drums and drumset being two different things, the ecosystem never uniting beyond the parts, then moves into a computer-based context of desktop controllers where people can play drums with their thumbs to 'set down beats' with little capacity beyond this same level of dexterity in terms of what it involves as a question of drumming, beyond say input via tapping on a desk to get a beat, than say communicating larger longer ideas than what fits into a given set of software fields for MIDI rhythms, the foundation of the music. drums are more than this. though in a digital audio workstation (DAW) context, sometimes not more than an arbitrary string needed to generate others that are output as new songs, song as information, information as communication. and perhaps that is all okay, necessary even in terms of the situation, yet music involves vastly more than this in terms of questions and shared cultural communication. though it seems to have been made trivial, as if only a technical exercise, and equated with meaning and skillls that go far beyond this and ground in a larger framework or knowledge that potentially even some of these tools do not allow it is not to suggest taking away the freedom to explore music in varieties of ways, instead it is to question the depth or shallowness of this exploration as a standardized, normalized, and mainstreamed as music produced and received as culture, dumbing-down awareness and then accepting culture at a lower level than is necessary to relate within, socially, mentally, emotionally. unless everyone is in a crib playing with shiny toys and rattles, making noise, and that is the shared condition (perhaps requiring being drugged out of your mind to not be bothered by it, especially in terms of aesthetics and lack of insight, the din of 'music noise'() so this realm completely fascinates me, there is total potential to turn this situation around via another conceptual approach, a paradigm that meets the electromagnetic situation and reframes music within a more accurate nonlinear/multilinear context, getting outside this narrow false absolutist view from classical ideology and music training, its institutionalization and into new parameters and functionality that opens up the instruments for music literacy, understanding, development of skills, interaction, relations, based on music as a shared practice tied into with literacy, social development, awareness, technological advance and refinement, and at its core, about aesthetics, thinking and ideas, truth accessed and involved for instance, take the robot drummer situation. compared to the Def Leppard drummer who lost a limb in an accident and continued to drum one-handed, via technological assistance. a similar condition exists with juggling, where some believe that you need to juggle more balls than your hands to be juggling, thus 2 hands require at least 3 balls to be 'juggling', and yet it also is implied that less than 3-balls is not juggling, when anyone who learns to juggle quickly realizes the steps it takes to get there involves being able to juggle two balls with one hand, that this is a core skill (and adept jugglers can juggle three balls if not more balls in one hand) It is this kind of false limit that may keep people away from juggling because not everyone is at the highest skill level or will achieve that virtuosity yet could still benefit from juggling at a lower level as a learning practice. and if someone only has one-hand, it could be legitimate juggling to juggle 2 balls and is in essence the same as juggling with two hands and three balls in that certain principles are involved and shaped and can be explored in those parameters, such as movement, speed, height, and so on. including with those two-handed, that learning to juggle one-handed in each hand is a core skill and necessary to be effective at juggling, as this ambidextrous condition is what is a challenge, mirroring of various patterns in different directions, thus starting with one-side or the other, as this effects brain processing, as if the pendulum is involved or something that connects both hemispheres of the brain as the side that is preferenced then moves into new relation with the other side, neutralizing out bias given the amount of practice, developing new nerve connections, brain cells, this changes memory circuits, functionality, coordination, thinking or possibility, even, opening up options instead of accepting given limits, and learning step by step how to go about this drum sticks are very much like this, one hand biased and learning to use both, coordinate, and explore basic patterns, from the most basic, single tap here, single tap there, to multiple tap sequences then mirrored across to the other side, as with changing direction in juggling a given pattern, reversing it, so too, using drumsticks to tap out rhythmic structures in reverse using opposite hands, and learning from this as a skill, process, many dimensions involved so the big failure of 'the drummer' in the intro article is that they cannot keep up with the MIDI score, and a better clock is needed or metronome so others can play in sync together 'as a band', thus the computer solves the technical problem. the drummer as instrument not good enough, supposedly, in a high-tech context. what is needed instead is a Shiva-like multiarmed character with insane speed and processing ability, then the band would look good while the drummer flails and generates smoke and heat. [image] album cover http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_npo9ydLAc3I/SEWXECn2ddI/AAAAAAAAAZU/cmS_5TjZ_S8/s… the thing is- as with early photography studies by Muybridge of horse hoofs on the ground- the time-lapse of a drummer is indeed this multi-armed epiphany doing what to most is physically and mentally impossible to coherently understanding in real-time, even if it is dissected, because the issues of dexterity and awareness may be so beyond what most people are capable of, that it is really a unique skillset and capacity to be able to take this functioning on at a higher level, requires special skill or talent or dedication to attain that performability, and yet, slowed down, it can also be more manageable for others at a different skill level or way of playing that does not just rely on speed or given styles of playing. drums are not just a particular sound, style, genre, or format, it could be opened up to more than is questioned today in terms of the instrument - in that instead of emulating and rationalizing a style or particular approach to drumming, it could be requestioned based on more knowledge than an extended linear progression of a given trajectory allow - such that separation of drum machine from electronic drum set may not be structural, only a choice, and likewise others so in a non-profane context of serious issues with the way equipment is and its technical limitations, consider the sculpture of Shiva in terms of its capturing this increased capacity that is some inherent limit in the given technical approach for ~electronic drumming... Multi statue armée en Thaïlande http://fr.123rf.com/photo_11044455_multi-statue-armee-en-thailande.html so consider again the issue of time. if this was a many-instanced view, most drummers would have a sequence very much of this many-armed approach. though if a score is sped up so fast, at some point only a multiarmed robot or a superfast two armed robot could feasibly drum at a certain pace, beyond human capacity, due to time, energy, ability to process information. it is perhaps a classic case of multitasking though within a group-subgroup dynamic of (drumset (drums)) where a certain limit is approached to what can be performed in terms of given parameters of functioning. multitasking -- handyman http://www.affordablehousinginstitute.org/blogs/us/handyman_small.jpg multitasking -- office work http://www.getthere-fromhere.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Shiva-Image.jpg not sure if it is evident yet, though this is a condition also existing in computing, whereby there are large gaps between tasks that have no larger relation to one another beyond certain limits or parameters, incompatible or unintegrated software or frameworks or approaches, thus atomizing everything into a separate domain or task or chore, and thus losing efficiency, whereby 'speed' is the ability to coordinate in that framework, keep it coherent, and get things done simultaneously, not unlike banging out a sequence on drums where is this going? there is a physical and mental limit to what can be done and it can be reached and then hold back functioning, as a barrier, yet also people can be judged against what is an institutionalized inefficiency or false constraint, due to design, that forces these dynamics, which can then turn against efforts, such as making 'work' less productive, etc, even when home computing was sold as an efficiency device, to make things easier when instead it becomes more and more time-wasting chores and routines, upkeep, hassle, etc as if an ulterior motive designed in from the start, its dysfunction programming and formatting user dysfunction. in this way, the problem with tools shaping the user via negative influence, the dynamics set up in a devolutionary or regressive way, via detached, ungrounded, unreal, or otherwise inferior approaches that then become standardized, the norm to follow, etc so this is about time, about tools and technologies in a context that are interacted with, communication, and about intent or symbiosis between a person and technology, perhaps bridging into a larger organization of others and other technology (playback, etc) the electronic metronome is basically the keystone to electronic drumming in a band in so far as it relates to music notation, a style of playing, the shared 'music score' as code & program. that a person would have to play so fast to keep in sequence is akin to GHz and CPUs, as this relates to design parameters, is it really better or a design approach leading to other values. though the central idea is that timing and drums are structuralized in the framework of a band and a drummer performs an advanced metronome function within the band, that today for some a machine can replace and extend into other functionality that may or may not be manageable by or with a drummer at the helm. in place of a drummer, some have a PC with software tracks, hooked into mixer, controlling drums via software interface. others have drummers with triggering of additional samples or patterns, to allow this information management via sticks hitting trigger/sensors in the drum kit, to activate a given sound or sample or recorded playback. so the upper limit appears to be- a physical entity aka drummer cannot feasibly play this or play it as needed , thus some electronics equipment or tools will do it, and perhaps there is no need for a drummer in the band, they are not fast enough or cannot manage the sounds, (perhaps even there is irregular timing or something, cued other than by drums, etc). so here is a bit of clarity on this situation: no where does it say there has to be only one approach or direction with 'time' in music, and yet it is a forced perspective that has now become the structure for all electronic music instruments, in a one-way flow of time that moves into 'speed' as a view of increased or advanced processing. as if linear flow is all of it. music has no perspective, no dimensionality, it is a flattened realm of inquiry stuck within an 16-18th century notion of space-time that is pre-Einstein, perhaps pre-Copernican even, as if everyone needbe sitting at the feet of Beethoven then evolving to churn out rap songs next in endless strings of concatenation of themes, structures, values, as if 'composers of reality', eventually by way of merely saying or singing language to various melodies and tunes, as if music and song is definable in fixed parameters endlessly extendable, never stale, rotting and the ruins of culture, festering and stank in its role and importance, loss of connection with truth beyond finite beliefs shared in-group, scaled to consumerist ubiquity & for sale why could there not be 'many clocks' at once, perhaps moving in different directions within a drum set. in an acoustic context this is not possible. in an electronic drum set it is possible yet not able to be explored given the way things are designed and structured for emulation and extension of previous styles. the depth of music buried under an emptiness of its value and insight by a genre past its time, yet repeated endlessly on the radio and online as if eternal, vs. cultural tyranny of noise that seeks to mask out other views, stand in as if 'the standard' when instead this is conceit, based on power politics, control over media, enforced authority and forced perspective, that somehow everyone holds certain musical truth in common, as if aesthetics and shared awareness can be engineered for and scaled to populations via expert propaganda of repeat iconic performance, tv-specials, awards, superbowl halftime shows i have several ideas about a new approach to electronic drums as an ecosystem of various components, including mixer, looper, sequencer, sampler, metronome, and drums combined into a single instrument interface. much like a web server that spans another virtual machine or process, to manage or access another dimension, so too, why not allow a drummer to have 'multiple arms' via the tools themselves, by allowing a drum machine to capture patterns that the drummer plays, set them up as a loop in real-time, and then add and subtract and shape this information while it is live within the equipment. many clocks, different directions for the sound, starting one pattern in certain instruments and send it in a given direction and then another with different sounds in another direction, and let them go on their way while playing yet another sound, different rhythms, within this layered context. hell, who needs a band, even, if you have such a drum set. this is more like drumming as programming though in haptic or even neuro-feedback or voice-control interface, prototype for future computing even in its communicative function, if considering performance could be over the network and thus local and remote via HDTV connections. so shared work model in teleconferencing into music, new MIDI standards allowing multiple times, though far more is involved than can be sketched here in these parameters. the larger point of it is that even though it is not allowed, 'the music' of drumming exists in a context beyond the way the equipment is now designed, yet could be reconsidered, once again questioned for what is going on in musicological terms, the substance of instruments, and then open up these parameters for music to breath within versus be stifled by lack of ability to do anything other than playing as fast as possible as the innovation path available, versus multilinear and ecosystem and other dynamics that could also be possible, if these situations would be evaluated in their truth, versus just as profit for the automated machine and music-production ideology that formats these tools as formulaic, calculator-like devices that produce endless strings of self-same limited parameter computations over and over, as if equated with heightened awareness and grounding of culture by mere communication. in other words, maybe virtuosity of expertise in a given instrument is not the aim or goal and instead literacy of music via instruments and as a way of forming and shaping awareness and consciousness and forming a basis for shared communication at a greater depth than existing culture allows though has historically been achieved and held with great reverence, in that music forms the centre of shared experience, brings many together in one relation and that instruments can do likewise. (in this regard, some of my ideas include people being the performance themselves, musicians as networks of multiple timed looping patterns and interacting as ecosystem, being able to move through music at any point or path as with software models thus the song is interpretable, non-repeatable even, an environment that is navigated, this could include performance, headphones allowing positioning or moving around acoustic space, etc. software tools anyone can use to learn musical principles. musicological instruments that redevelop existing types along more fundamental musical structures and principles, such that music instruments are reading/writing instruments, gaining that level of interaction and ability to communicate beyond existing notation parameters that deter such developments) a drumset that is grounded in its electromagnetic context and can access the truth of this condition in that parameters of music allow it to be tapped into, explored, understood, and experimented with, then potentially relates to a next-level of computation of the sensor-based environment requiring orchestration from within chaos, into order, via looped patterns of tasks and routines of separate elements (whether tom-tom, sequencer, metronome, or pantry, computer, e-ink wall display). the larger dynamics involve similar principles, how to manage multilinear flows of information, shape them, program them, secure functioning while existing or starting in another framework. how to make the transition, what is the conflict in ideas or ideology, what if the difference in values, in control, management, authority, is truth driving the process or its representation that can be warped, subverted, and what if what today does not work together at all instead could be naturally, organically cohesive as an ecosystem, harmonious, due to recognizing shared principles, functionality, parameters and functionality that are symbiotic, and provide feedback in shared frameworks that benefit the whole infrastructure which is scalable, because it is based upon shared truth this truth of music is truth of life, truth of culture, truth of people, truth of society, that is the value that has been replaced by another set of principles moving in an inhuman direction that then holds people against its values as if inferior when it is the opposite- these tools need to serve people, not the other way around. they should free the imagination and open-up options, not deny or break these connections to maintain some other agenda or priority; and yet music like everything else has become trapped in this realm of falsity, held captive to mimicry and substitution of a false-view, seldom do i hear music of my own nature anymore and thus these words about future instrument design, what is needed, within these ruins of civilization and its- our- lost culture <>---- reference ---<> [q] Drum: It is an instrument frequently used in rites and rituals; its rhythmical sound is sometimes (e.g., in Buddhism) equated with the hidden sounds and powers of the cosmos. Often (e.g., among black African peoples) the drum served magically to call down heavenly powers; the war drum in particular was closely associated with the symbolism of LIGHTNING and THUNDER. -- In China the sound of the drum was related to the course of the SUN and especially to the winter solstice (i.e., that point when the yin principle exerts its greatest influence but also when the sun, and hence the yang principle, begins to increase its influence again). See YIN AND YANG. -- The drum is the symbolic heart of the universe for Native Americans. [/q] --- The Herder Dictionary of Symbols, p.62 DRUM A symbol of primordial sound, and a vehicle for the word, for tradition and for magic (60). With the aid of drums, shamans can induce a state of ecstasy. It is not only the rhythm and the timbre which are important in the symbolism of the primitive drum, but, since it is made of wood of 'the Tree of the World', the mystic sense of the latter also adheres to it (18). According to Schneider, the drum is, of all musical instruments, the most pregnant with mystic ideas. In Africa, it is associated with the heart. In the most primitive cultures, as in the most advanced, it is equated with the sacrificial altar and hence it acts as a mediator between heaven and earth. However, given its bowl-shape and its skin, it corresponds more properly to the symbolism of the Element of earth. A secondary meaning turns upon the shape of the instrument, and it should be noted that it is in this respect that there is most variation in significance. The three essential shapes are: the drum in the form of an hour-glass, symbolizing Inversion and the 'relationship between the two worlds' (the Upper and Lower) ; the round drum, as an image of the world, and the barrel-shaped, associated with thunder and lightning (50). [/q] --- A Dictionary of Symbols, j.e. cirlot. p.85 :;.:|: drummer :.|;.: [video] interview with Kenny Aronoff: Part I (27:18) http://www.theblackpage.net/interviews/kenny-aronoff-part-1 [video] interview with Kenny Aronoff Part II (22:26) http://www.theblackpage.net/interviews/kenny-aronoff-part-2 Listening... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listening --= on tuning =-- Here’s Why You Should Convert Your Music To 432 hz. http://zedie.wordpress.com/2014/01/04/heres-why-you-should-convert-your-mus… the surrounding context https://www.dropbox.com/s/ov2yfxa3435wbgd/ruins.gif {educational fair-use of copyright, 2013} 411-A1A/56 413-C2B/812-NET r80,e#W9s/95x02+k

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Re: [tor-talk] Request for "Tor, king of anonymity" graphic
by grarpamp 05 Jan '14

05 Jan '14

>>> https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2013-November/031001.html >> https://bayimg.com/BAfJGAafB > Sorry, but no. > Tor mailing lists are not places where spreading rape culture is ok, > whatever the point you are trying to make. Perhaps it is a leaked artistic caricature of a fun/educational play session between consenting parties in something like edukink, sfcitadel, soj, tes, fetlife and the like. Perhaps it is something else. As with all art... interpretation, learning, and appreciation or lack thereof is upon the viewer. No need to click links or start wars over them if you don't like. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech_versus_blasphemy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journalism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humor > Roger's original request was for a mashup he could use in his > presentations to LEAs and to the NSA itself. > Somehow I don't see him using this. :-) Surely some NSA listening post is getting a really good laugh after ingesting that link. Here's more that would make equally good follow ons to their previously leaked slides when mashed together in a future presentation... https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=nsa+parody https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=nsa+humor / Agreed. It's offensive and frankly lazy. / http://i.imgur.com/PV2q1ZO.gif Oh really? Here we thought 'fuck'ing was offensive. _ I like the double entendre: FreeBSD > Linux :) _ Accurate and funny. Nice work. Someone should add a Fawkes mask in the shoetip for added effect. Now that everyone's well represented, no further comment.

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P2P VPN
by Matej Kovacic 05 Jan '14

05 Jan '14

Hi, this might be of interest to you: https://code.google.com/p/badvpn/ Peer-to-peer VPN The VPN part of this project implements a Layer 2 (Ethernet) network between the peers (VPN nodes). The peers connect to a central server which acts as a chat server for them to establish direct connections between each other (data connections). These connections are used for transferring network data (Ethernet frames), and can be secured with a multitude of mechanisms. Notable features are: * UDP and TCP transport * Converges very quickly after a new peer joins * IGMP snooping to deliver multicasts efficiently (e.g. for IPTV) * Double SSL: if SSL is enabled, not only do peers connect to the server with SSL, but they use an additional layer of SSL when exchanging messages through the server * Features related to the NAT problem: 1. Can work with multiple layers of NAT (needs configuration) 2. Local peers inside a NAT can communicate directly 3. Relaying as a fallback (needs configuration) More info here: https://code.google.com/p/badvpn/wiki/badvpn P. S. It would be nice to see this with easy to use GUI and prepacked binaries for all "main" systems... Regards, M.

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Fwd: Fw: Hi, I'm from the government and I'm here to screw you
by brian carroll 05 Jan '14

05 Jan '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: CJ Knight <nulldev(a)hush.com> Date: Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 4:08 PM Subject: Re: Fw: Hi, I'm from the government and I'm here to screw you To: brian carroll <electromagnetize(a)gmail.com> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Brian, and happy new year. Thanks for another thought provoking post. A few things you might not be aware of happening over here in Europe, specifically the UK: We have ANPR (Automatic Number Plate Recognition) cameras in place on every motorway junction, plus all major roads. They aren't advertised, they look like plain grey boxes, but people are slowly catching on to what they do, and how much they see. A journey from one end of the country to the other can be tracked in real time. An EU Directive has stated that all new cars must have inbuilt 3G capability "in case of accidents". I personally do not believe this reason, and suspect it's just another form of tracking surveillance. Lastly, our government a few years back came up with an idea to fit "black box" recorders in *all* cars but the public backlash was so huge they shelved the idea. Instead, the insurance industry has adopted the technology, so new drivers and those with a poor accident record can opt to have one of these boxes fitted in return for a discount on their insurance. It is now becoming a norm for young people to take this option; when I ask them why they are prepared to violate their own privacy they just shrug, but I guess privacy means something different to the Facebook generation. Conversely, it is now becoming *more* expensive to insure a car if you do not have a black box; they have tried norming this by penalising the law abiding (but privacy conscious). Anyway, just thought you might like to know. Best, CJ On 02/01/14 18:04, brian carroll wrote: >> Any questions? > > observation: ...<snip>... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJSxeNUAAoJEIRAsFEItJzjLyMH/iXOzH5R8mJi1LYqwU5RgdPj yBxI6T9hhlQOnA1mZOTrTxDfLMDBi4IEWkyJK+C3C3wCoq7/+5sJphEqZ6tikQdP 8cPeR0E6/tlXRW9H78FcDlWwWJgi/xwT+Z2aOwIDdr9xjWl7WJF2rrgbRENC05aX OLtnvbHmm+nPKKjFYx7resXD37e7O8kYd7k1ArkJ5o+h3BuIm5oQMCZU4xUqlfoO IJ2xclzLRKLu70O3xUeYsmTjsF61xaRpMXy1404lWpJkKsW+1wqugOBVDMf9dRxH qnZhM09ToF5hICvUkvch3juV2z0Pg69N8CZS27xrCjYTSVxsr8JUjuQLS5E6kvw= =diAd -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: Replacing corporate search engines with anonymous/decentralized search
by Juha Nurmi 05 Jan '14

05 Jan '14

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi! I read this post about decentralized search and I immediately subscribed this mailing list. So hello all! My name is Juha Nurmi and I am the founder of ahmia.fi (search engine for Tor) and a university researcher. Right now I am trying to get funding to design a decentralized search engine. We are proposing (me and my Adj.Prof.) a small (2-3 years) Finnish Academy project. This proposal would take place in the Finnish Academy ICT 2023 programme, first thematic call: Information security, letters of intent, which means very short project plans. Academy mostly funds (public) "pure research"; first planned applications are related to virtual Internet networks and public admin applications. The basic idea is to investigate search algorithms and engines that do not require a centralized crawler database and a central authority. This raises algorithmic, security, credibility, resourcification, etc. challenges that are interesting strategic research point of view, etc. In particular, we would like to use Tor network as a testbed for these ideas in the related case studies: we will be testing this search design by building a tor hidden service search engine :) The Finnish Academy will select most promising project candidates and the final proposal is to be submitted around April 2014. If successful, we enter detailed planning phase in early 2014, and submit more complete project plan by April 2014. Actual project (2 calendar years) would take place in 2014-2016. I really really hope I will get this funding. This is something I would love to do and have planned to do a long time. Funding = time. Greetings, Juha Nurmi -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.14 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJSxHzCAAoJELGTs54GL8vASmUH/i9QP+b508y4sLAnlxRogpnX NZlOJ+s2x+i5lK7TiVxCOWm556pQBwCl8aVwAjIlmY0RtqllbpqBsOePSY7nrK+6 1L+znToW6l5LleSBxa7mK0Yd6ww08VJmkr7y5CoW5D1JWhTRiHm2iMVBOLdIU27A G1CwXTwVUzeiehrUd1frHgmHVeXeqwovInnnKKc6ndrX53Z7zau/m5ybaQnyCTlG HNVKbXLSYRK0rWjLbg2+bd7ZTXWIGCISxhmQ68/bvPIGfleW/hSqz9Cw+oou+Ufa FKxUoEmMIcBCdonIi4A7iZLlDrWX1RkPeUmSGKJU3I3ZcxtwrKbU1y9Ijg7D7kQ= =qjYG -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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>#i\&;N@:*f)o$~"|=% (urls)
by brian carroll 05 Jan '14

05 Jan '14

--- potential --- issue: wi-fi as distributed radar, signals monitoring as if snare traps in forest or jungle for certain parameters .... KOLLIDER FUNCTION .... A. Scientists Turn Their Gaze Toward Tiny Threats to Great Lakes http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/15/us/scientists-turn-their-gaze-toward-tiny… "Tiny plastic beads used in hundreds of toiletries like facial scrubs and toothpastes are slipping through water treatment plants and turning up by the tens of millions in the Great Lakes. There, fish and other aquatic life eat them along with the pollutants they carry — which scientists fear could be working their way back up the food chain to humans." B. Beadist Transforms Ordinary Objects Into Ornate Treasures http://www.visualnews.com/2013/12/31/beadist-transforms-ordinary-objects-or… \/.:.: OOC book ::.../\ Autonomous Technology Technics-out-of-Control as a Theme in Political Thought By Langdon Winner http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/autonomous-technology [q] The truth of the matter is that our deficiency does not lie in the want of well-verified "facts." What we lack is our bearings. The contemporary experience of things technological has repeatedly confounded our vision, our expectations, and our capacity to make intelligent judgments. Categories, arguments, conclusions, and choices that would have been entirely obvious in earlier times are obvious no longer. Patterns of perceptive thinking that were entirely reliable in the past now lead us systematically astray. Many of our standard conceptions of technology reveal a disorientation that borders on dissociation from reality. And as long as we lack the ability to make our situation intelligible, all of the "data" in the world will make no difference. —From the Introduction [/q] ^1 Amazon Customer Review http://www.amazon.com/Autonomous-Technology-Technics-out-Control-Political/… Look Inside this book... http://www.amazon.com/Autonomous-Technology-Technics-out-Control-Political/… searchable PDF with index / ex. 'megamachine' http://monoskop.org/images/0/00/Winner_Langdon_Autonomous_Technology_Techni… [q] Lewis Mumford holds much the same view. There is, he believes, a humane tradition of science and technology based on "an earth-centered, organic, and human model" to which Western civilization must return if it is to avoid the disastrous course of the "megamachine." 6 "For its effective salvation," Mumford warns, "mankind will need to undergo something like a spontaneous religious conversion: one that will replace the mechanical world picture, and give to the human personality, as the highest manifestation of life, the precedence it now gives to machines and computers." 7 [/q] -- Introduction, p.4 -- ^1. note on 'bearings' - have repeatedly been thinking about limit of compass view and of TPH's book on Elmer Sperry, never read it though on inventor of gyrocompass, related to gyroscope used in satellites, ubiquitous directional sensor (cellphones, segway, drones, vessels, other). perhaps its framework parallels certain ever-shifting conditions and parameters, staying on course. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmer_Ambrose_Sperry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sperry_Corporation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyrocompass http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyroscope book: Elmer Sperry: Inventor and Engineer (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology) http://www.amazon.com/Elmer-Sperry-Inventor-Engineer-Technology/dp/08018475… "Characteristic of his various inventions were feedback controls which have made automation a fact of life." ------u--r--l--s------- // strange-read function: thought it referenced MITM... Apple, Qualcomm suffering weak yields for wearable devices http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20140102PD202.html [diagram] electric & magnetic properties of light http://phys.org/news/2013-12-peek-forgotten-component.html Research duo develop a means for people to conceptualize polarized light http://phys.org/news/2013-12-duo-people-polarized.html [q] It's a well-known fact that animals other than humans can see polarized light and that many use it as a means of navigation, terrain discrimination or even as a form of communication. Recent studies have even found that some organisms, such as shrimp, are able to communicate with one another using polarized light that is reflected off a part of their bodies, in this case, their tails. Many scientists believe that there likely exists a hidden world of communication going on in natural world, where only those who can see polarized light are able to join in. How and Marshall describe it as a secret language—one where prey are able to communicate silently, for example, unseen by a predator, without fear of being overheard. [/q] // and... why not-- Researchers find dogs sensitive to small variations in Earth's magnetic field http://phys.org/news/2014-01-dogs-sensitive-small-variations-earth.html [q] A team of researchers in the Czech Republic has found that dogs can now be added to the list of animals that are able to sense and respond to the Earth's magnetic field. In their paper published in Frontiers in Zoology, the researchers describe field experiments they conducted that indicated that dogs prefer to defecate while in a North-South stance relative to the Earth's axis, during times when the magnetic field is calm. [/q] (this research perhaps a contender for ig-noble awards) (note: relation of geophysics and patterning. of animals, though also humans. will not mention in this given context, though it is wondered if position of buildings and direction of beds likewise is this way, with humans and fields. are N-S or E-W directions preferred, what if rooms are not on cardinal access. does direction effect sleep patterns, etc. is it specific to layout of a room or larger building itself; such that position of furniture only has a few options in a given space, thus must be oriented a certain way, and how is this preferenced, may larger fields or forces be involved in determining optimal or is it irrespective of this.) ---:::: quantum! ::::--- re: NSA Quantum Computer Research at LPS 2005 http://cryptome.org/2014/01/nsa-quantum-computer-2005.pdf note: wondering if in someway e-ink display, phase changes via direction of ink color (white to black, perhaps grayscale) could in some way be analogous to spin states of atoms and rovide a conceptual framework to question dynamics within (wondering also about nesting of dynamics, spin states that have hierarchy and build up or support/buttress other states, such that a scaffolding or computational structure is created; thus perhaps 3-qbits effect 1-qbit on another level as it relates to others at its same scale. maybe these are logic gates though. it just seems an ecological or nonlinear/multinear flow dynamic would be dynamic (state machine) v. serial progression of charge) note: what if ion-trip entanglement became storage mode to establish two linked memory matrices, at a distance from one another. such that they are remotely linked, though are combined of the opposites qbits... [matrix1] <---> [matrix2] in this way, it is not necessary 'spin' for set 1 to set 2 that may be the computational process/framework, and instead spins within the matrix, that then mirror in the matched pair... [xxxxxx] <---> [xxxxxx] [xxxoxx] ----- [xxxxxx] [xxxoxx] ----> [xxxoxx] in that, due to entanglement within the set (matrix1) that the relation (x-x => x-o) via manipulation, say encoding, then mirrors in the second set, and the stringing together of these then reappears likewise in the second set (matrix2) if this is how the spin-states are matched and entanglement operates what if the matrix were considered a bitset display that is inherently linked via stored entangled pairs, perhaps even mismatched, calico, some sets are shared or not, some sets may not be entangled and thus like wires to anode/cathode or ground, create computation circuits, hierarchy or structure for data flow. what if a sequence of patterns or a problem was then set against this matrix (e.g. 1), say it is a qbit storage or memory array of 1,000 qbits, a quantum-data ecosystem, that then processes a pattern via its structuring, as linked into and out of various known structures (logic gates, functions, other) ridiculous to speculate probably, though what if some limit like 1-dimensionality or 2-dimensionality exists, and that perhaps a 3- or 4-D or N-dimensional framework is required to activate or unlock or open-up the natural, organic dynamics beyond preexisting ideological thresholds, boundaries, views, such that quantum is stuck in a paradigm of electron-tronics: (electronics (quantum bits) ) in that perhaps linear or serial time-based sequences and approaches are fundamentally different, and constrained by 'electronics circuits' as paradigm or model or approach quantum-computation (electronic computation) what if the situation is opposite, that the quantum realm is larger or defines the electronics realm (larger(smaller)) in terms of hierarchy, different principles or organization required - perhaps the model of information key to how it is conceived, where 'the bit' may not be defined just as encoded electron, and instead exists as abstracted pattern or structure (language, subsign structures perhaps) and thus the 'way of seeing' is not possible if the model or approach does not capture these dimensions need for computation and communication. perhaps quantum computation is closer to a screen-display rolling through various patterns as if a thinking-machines blinking lights, though that these patterns are the calculation going on visually, not just the representation of activity, the actual computation itself (in this way, processing would be more pattern-matched thinking, evaluation based on weighting of entangled bits that ground to truth or neutral or somewhere grayscale; the latter requires more analog than 1/3rd spin states, so resolution of q-bit perhaps is also a question, is there a potential gradient between +/- that can be achieved, in this way 'data switches' as with Hall Effect sensors, 'digital', whether on/off in 1/2s or 5ths, versus analog going from 0-1 across the entire range, say 5/200ths in one instance and 5/6.124 next, given resolution, etc. qbit as on/off switch versus strain gage in other words. It would seem the inherent 'computability' of entangled bits in terms of 'grounding to truth' via connected knowns is in the undefined state, not a false limit to weighting or resolution, thus qbit as sensor, not as finite bit measure unless as a gate or transistor function. guessing, though the nature of thinking is not about forcing things into a framework that is overly limiting or rationalized, it may remain looping or neutral, undecided, it may be contingently known (digital switch state, true or false (1,0) or tending towards t/f (+1/3, -2/3)) or else it may be weighted, as with intuition, in given looped state it is at this location or proximity on the scale from T/F, though given more processing may shift back&forth, thus undecided (1/0) though in n-degrees resolution until perhaps figured out. this is n-dimensional not linear algorithms, this is multilinear many-timings that may or may not be in phase in given situations, timing may have a million clocks that together may sync into a single clock or operate as several that may or may not align or agree. that is what such a computer would likely be involved with in terms of data, not an electronics-circuit topdown approach. this based on the way of thinking, it as entanglement based with information structures, data models, and perspectives, perhaps turing framework also a limit) also- consider transistor design of recent CPU chips, the alternative approach that accommodates errors & can use an FPGA or other device to reprogram or tune functioning, taking into account what is operational; consider in qbit context, especially if not approached In purely quantum computer context and instead hybrid, that a qbit entangled pair could be linked into a classical electronic circuit, used for remote or distance messaging for instance. some basic functionality of matched pairs, perhaps for encryption at a morse-code level as if early days of telegraphy. what seems possible if developing some integrated functionality is to build upon this, bit by bit so to speak, with continual advances, yet it would not be an independent quantum computer per se, instead it would be a hybrid electronic computer with extended quantum functionality, a new substructure or connector into future quantum systems. so perhaps an entire q-pc is not going to appear at once, and instead a bridge from existing tech, with some q-functionality, then will meet with more independent q-systems of the future, allow a range of q-systems development via diff. approaches in terms of a quantum system beyond existing electronic circuitry, another paradigm, the same approach could be relevant with transistors, such that perhaps some qbits are higher fidelity and others not, within a linked matrix, or some are 1/3rds, some are linear, some digitral 1/0, and some are unlinked or classical, within a given matrix or bitset display that is q-computational. and then from this messiness, order emerges via patterned dynamics and interactions, and develops over looped iterations. In other words, the issue of natural v. forced calculation; where a model or belief of 'perfection' exists with the 'electron as bit' approach, that presumes it is coherent, starts and operates here (TTTFTFT), ideological and also deterministic, a rationalization of the problems, sets; as If that can all be figured out or 'knowable' in advance; vs. a model of imperfection of the 'qbit as bitset' approach, which starts or remains in incoherence or decoherence, except as it may attain or align in coherent states (A=A) or others (T=2/3) that shape into patterns of calculation, emerging as structure, order, from chaos even perhaps beliefs in how people think could be part of the issue, as if 'scientific dogma' drives view of objective thinkers (A=A all the time with every observation), when this is a fragment or infinitesimal decimal condition, existing closer to near total falsity excepting whatever truth is or can be momentarily accessed, unless sustained as entangled state with truth as awareness, operating or functioning inside its dimensions vs. warped versions where bias (such as digital) throw-out anomalous, even contradictory or falsifying data. psychological loopholes that could prevent accurate modeling of q-conditions as it relates to ideas as ideas, not in terms of ideology note: why share such naive thinking outside realm of any expertise? i think 'thinking' directly correlates with quantum processes of entanglement and 'reasoning' is essentially comparable in terms of parsing patterns in a looped or ecosystem/ecological condition. so there is an issue of ideology or paradigm that could limit this to POVs, ideas, or beliefs that are inaccurate yet institutionalized yet form the framework for investigation/development, though likewise limit it. thus another view to question if this could be relevant by sharing outsider perspective. in that 'intuitive computing' or 'computers that reason' are going to be more like thinkers than calculators, which is the split between electronic computation and quantum approach, seemingly. the bit itself should be in question, how it is constructed and conceived, not the same thing or scale potentially with quantum, perhaps much more linguistic or sign-calculus (mathesis) in its framework, perhaps because it maps to information already or it is or already carries an informational dimension seemingly also, the issue of classified research so there is no room for those involved to discuss these things that would allow open research to develop them further. discussion or ideas then opens up the framework of considerations that could perhaps lead to new approaches in unclassified realm or bridge between these. of those with NDA or clearances that forbid divulging secret or classified information, it could be a way for a parallel effort to exist beyond these limits legally, especially in terms of online communities; though the limit appears to be, once inside the system no communication about anything potentially secret occurs, thus 'free speech or expression' is self-censored even tho a person or research may not be involved in quantum, or have direct relation, that they may not even consider the the thoughts due to security issues- effectively silencing the commonsense conversation about issues in the open, where security clearances take away right to participate in other domains also classified yet not related or known, for fear of reprisal, even though it would help bridge the gap and allow advancement beyond insider/outsider limits in this way, naive views like mine are situated, a person speaking into the air about these commonsense issues in extremely limited, near no knowledge condition, except whatever may exist in some minor accuracy about them. perhaps that is the threat, security bounds thinking to an existing political administration and framework that could result in violence for sharing ideas that are unwanted, etc. thus incorporation into the state is this enforced silencing, functioning within parameters assumed for the good, yet if corrupted, then trapped in an incommunicable condition where anything said could be interpreted as betrayal, etc) ~~^~~entropy^~^^^^ Maxwell's demon can use quantum information to generate work http://phys.org/news/2013-12-maxwell-demon-quantum.html [q] "It is known that classical information can be used to extract work, which is important because this saves the second law of thermodynamics!" Sang Wook Kim told Phys.org. "The mathematical expression of such work is given as the mutual information between the system and the measurement device multiplied by kT. Now for the first time we show that quantum information can also be used to extract work, and its mathematical expression is discord." [/q] How losing information can benefit quantum computing http://phys.org/news/2013-11-benefit-quantum.html#nRlv (note: noise environment, bugs as features) // perhaps difficult to lock-on to pattern recog./movement tracking? // could probably test with robot, focusing on singular shape/outline} // vs. not, then movement, trying to determine direction/speed, etc. // where parameters default to outline, thus harder to evaluate/match Computer simulation explains why zebras have stripes http://phys.org/news/2013-12-simulation-zebras-stripes.html ----(other)---- note: reference image related to recent posting on belief in money as absolute truth... https://www.dropbox.com/s/0mdzwdyd6kl2xj7/communion.jpg {educational fair-use of copyright, 2013} 960-65-45 55-63-91 43-345-939

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Fwd: [cryptography] ECC patent FUD revisited
by coderman 05 Jan '14

05 Jan '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: D. J. Bernstein <djb(a)cr.yp.to> Date: Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 1:36 AM Subject: [cryptography] ECC patent FUD revisited NSA's Kevin Igoe writes, on the semi-moderated cfrg(a)irtf.org list: > Certicom has granted permission to the IETF to use the NIST curves, > and at least two of these, P256 and P384, have p = 3 mod 4. Not > being a patent lawyer, I have no idea what impact the Certicom patents > have on the use of newer families of curves, such as Edwards curves. There are several interesting aspects to this patent FUD. Notice that the FUD is being used to argue against switching to curves that improve ECC security. Notice also the complete failure to specify any patent numbers---so the FUD doesn't have any built-in expiration date, and there's no easy way for the reader to investigate further. http://www.certicom.com/index.php/licensing/certicom-ip says that Certicom "discovered and patented many fundamental innovations" and has "more than 350 patents and patents pending worldwide". This sounds impressive until you look at what the portfolio actually contains. The reality is that Certicom has contributed essentially nothing to state-of-the-art ECC. Its patent portfolio consists of a few fringe ideas and a few obsolete ideas---nothing essential for mainstream ECC usage. Nobody needs MQV, for example: traditional DH achieves the same security goals in a much more straightforward way, and very few people notice the marginal performance benefit provided by MQV. The reason that Certicom has so many "patents and patents pending worldwide", despite having contributed so few ideas, is that it keeps splitting its patent applications. For example, the original MQV patent filings in early 1995 ended up being split into an incredibly redundant collection of US patents 5761305, 5889865, 5896455, 5933504, 6122736, 6487661, 7243232, 7334127, 7779259, 8090947, and 8209533, not to mention the corresponding non-US patents CA2237688, DE69636815, EP0873617, etc. ---Dan

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Re: Jacob Appelbaum in Germany
by Juan Garofalo 05 Jan '14

05 Jan '14

--On Saturday, January 04, 2014 10:55 AM +1000 "James A. Donald" <jamesd(a)echeque.com> wrote: > On 2014-01-04 07:04, Juan Garofalo wrote: >> If you believed in the typical conservative "my house, my rules" >> garbage, why would you post in this mailing where people are supposed >> to subscribe to anarchistic and anti-intelectual 'property' views? > > Schwarz was not charged with violating other people's intellectual > property, but other people's physical property. > > He needed killing, just as much as Martin Trayvon did, for much the same > reasons as Martin Trayvon needed killing. > > If an anti state protester, protest state power, not property. If you > are protesting property, you are a pro state protestor > > Which is why Schwarz thought he was part of the powerful, and thought > those he harmed were part of the powerless. Because he was striking at > physical property, not intellectual property. > 1) that he wasn't striking at intellectual property is your (false) side of the story. 2) the physical property of the state and its accomplices isn't legitimate property, or rather, it isn't *their* property. "He needed killing, just as much as Martin Trayvon did" may the one who needs killing is you. >

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NSA and quantum computers
by Jim Bell 04 Jan '14

04 Jan '14

http://news.yahoo.com/nsa-eyes-encryption-breaking-39-quantum-39-machine-22… Washington (AFP) - The US National Security Agency is making strides toward building a "quantum computer" that could break nearly any kind of encryption, The Washington Post reported Thursday. Related Stories * The NSA Is Trying to Build a Quantum Computer The Atlantic Wire * NSA leaker: 'Mission's already accomplished' Associated Press * NSA, UK agency 'targeted Israel PM, EU officials' Associated Press * Amnesty for Edward Snowden? Might depend on what secrets he's got left Christian Science Monitor * Israel plays down importance of alleged spying by U.S. and UK Reuters The Post said leaked documents from fugitive ex-NSA contractor Edward Snowden indicate the computer would allow the secret intelligence agency to break encryption used to protect banking, medical, business and government records around the world. Quantum computing has been a goal among commercial firms such as IBM because it could harness the power of atoms and molecules, vastly increasing speed and security of computers and other devices. But experts cited by the newspaper said it was unlikely that the NSA would be close to creating such a machine without the scientific community being aware of it. "It seems improbable that the NSA could be that far ahead of the open world without anybody knowing it," Scott Aaronson of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology told the daily. The NSA declined to comment on the report. The Post said the leaked documents indicate that the agency carries out research in large, shielded rooms known as Faraday cages designed to prevent electromagnetic energy from entering or exiting. Because of its vast computing power, a working quantum computer would break the strongest encryption tools in use today for online activities, including banking and emails. Some technology firms such as Google and Yahoo have said in recent weeks that they were stepping up efforts to encrypt their communications following reports that the NSA had been able to break or circumvent many of the current encryption standards. A September report by The New York Times, ProPublica and The Guardian, also based on leaked documents, said US and British spy agencies are able to decipher data even with the supposedly secure encryption to make it private. The documents indicated that the NSA, working with its British counterpart GCHQ, accomplished the feat by using supercomputers, court orders and some cooperation from technology companies. If the reports are accurate, the highly secretive program would defeat much of what is used to keep data secure and private on the Internet, from emails to chats to communications using smartphones. IBM researchers said last year they had made advances in quantum computing that has the potential to outperform any existing supercomputer. The new type of computing uses information encoded into quantum bits or qubits, putting into use a theory that scientists have been discussing for decades. Quantum computing expands on the most basic piece of information that a typical computer understands -- a bit, and thereby can perform millions of calculations at once.

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