Re: [FRIAM] Constructor Theory!

On Thu, 2014-08-28 at 20:39 -0400, Eric Smith wrote: > I make a pact with you, Stu Kaufmann Now if you could _only_ extend this into a poem, it could be etched on rock along a hiking trail! Perhaps at the SFI Tesuque estate? Marcus -

Re: [FRIAM] Live Q&A with Edward Snowden: Thursday 23rd January, 8pm GMT, 3pm EST

Glen writes: "But then some of them did show that extra spark. I remember one girl who almost never talked at all. But when she did, to whomever it was, she seemed to always talk directly about the core of the topic ... without clouding it with other, arbitrary, garbage she might happen to know.

Re: [FRIAM] Live Q&A with Edward Snowden: Thursday 23rd January, 8pm GMT, 3pm EST

Glen wrote: "If so, then perhaps we can conclude that the _salient_ factor is the skepticism. I.e. the thing that distinguishes an "educated" person from a "trained" person is solely that the former are skeptical." I'm reminded of the Orwell remark about Gregarious Animals. Skeptics are not th

Re: [FRIAM] Live Q&A with Edward Snowden: Thursday 23rd January, 8pm GMT, 3pm EST

Glen writes: "Can you commit to the idea that being placed in one context can take you down entirely different paths than you would have taken in some other context?" Ok. Is education path-limiting or path-creating? It might appear to be path-creating but really just enumerate a bunch of path

Re: [FRIAM] Live Q&A with Edward Snowden: Thursday 23rd January, 8pm GMT, 3pm EST

I wrote: > Pay no attention to the content of the message in the URL below, but the > preamble may be amusing to > some. > > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2014-01/msg00208.html [a wait-for-the-compile rant!] Well, if you were to read the content of the thread, it reminds me of an occasional theme

Re: [FRIAM] Live Q&A with Edward Snowden: Thursday 23rd January, 8pm GMT, 3pm EST

Pay no attention to the content of the message in the URL below, but the preamble may be amusing to some. http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2014-01/msg00208.html myhosting.com - Premium Microsoft® Windows® and Linux web and application

Re: [FRIAM] Extended sense of The Commons

"So, for me a better example than funding rail would be funding the construction of new and repair of old asphalt roads, especially those without bike lanes. There are sections of Portland with lots of unpaved roads. The people near them tend to do interesting things with them, including the unauth

Re: [FRIAM] right vs left

Ah yes. Propose a nonsense topic, wait until it is shown to be nonsense, they raise a vague follow-up topic, and ask the other person to say something in particular for you. Do you want to get your hands dirty or just play professor? Original email: - From: Nick Thompson ni

Re: [FRIAM] Why I was wrong about the nuclear option

Eric writes: "There is a kind of meanness or cynicism that likes to see hope dashed and beauty destroyed, and this meanness answers me by saying that if it isn't in the rules enforced with a gun, it isn't real, and only patsies fail to know that." What a fantastic post. I would answer this wa

Re: [FRIAM] HPSCI Seeks “Continuous Evaluation” of Security-Cleared Employees

``The combination seems to optimize for multiple personality disorder. Someone who is able to completely fracture their self into "work" and "home", creating the ultimate "just following orders" excuses.'' Another point of view is that whatever box one lives in, that box has norms and a lot of th

RE: [FRIAM] HPSCI Seeks “Continuous Evaluation” of Security-Cleared Employees

"But I can't help but wonder what such a culture does/will engender?" [..] "That sort of extra effort just to stay alive or out of jail seems so exhausting... hell, I feel the same way about mundane tasks like changing the oil in my various engines..." Hmm. That sounds like something a criminal

Re: [FRIAM] Hardware Trojans - was:] Urgent: skype vulnerability?

``[..] but rather that they are watching the world's evolution and may feel compelled to do one particular thing or another that could be pivotal.'' Yup, Marcus mail2web LIVE – Free email based on Microsoft® Exchange technolog

Re: [FRIAM] Hardware Trojans - was:] Urgent: skype vulnerability?

Steve wrote: ``Anonymous has *nothing* to offer *anyone* as an organization IMO. What it offers, as a concept, is an inspiration and an awareness that a large, almost completely decoupled group of people can have a big effect.'' An individual that knows they are passing a critical threshold of

Re: [FRIAM] [EXTERNAL] Urgent: skype vulnerability?

"Any asymmetrically weaker entity would, in principle, be able to dig into any aspect of the system. But such an entity would be incapable of grokking the whole system, at least as well as the army of lawyers, accountants, auditors, programmers, etc. who worked on behalf of the cabal. " Such a Be

Re: [FRIAM] [EXTERNAL] Urgent: skype vulnerability?

Glen wrote: "But the old style, autocratic, specialize everything, command and control structure doesn't need such motivation." Well, I mean some mental models have to develop at the various levels of the organization. I used the term `motivation' to mean the process of understanding enough of

Re: [FRIAM] Hardware Trojans - was:] Urgent: skype vulnerability?

"Or do you think a group like anonymous or the syrian electronic army could pull it off?" I imagine SEA can collect enough vulnerabilities and phishing victims without even developing their own software exploits. But it would be a mistake to assume that a small group could not in the not-so-dista

Re: [FRIAM] [EXTERNAL] Urgent: skype vulnerability?

> 2) Improved access to information -- the source code, and a community > around it. This allows motivated individuals to educate themselves rapidly > about things, and to be empowered to use this information. "It also allows us to lavish kudos on the fame-tolerant we find there. E.g. Musk, Diam

Re: [FRIAM] [EXTERNAL] Urgent: skype vulnerability?

Glen wrote: "It has always struck me that diversity and co-evolution constitute a superset of obscurity." I posit that co-evolution moves faster in today's open source world, because: 1) More independent thinkers. Drones tend not to care, and not caring leads to not thinking. Passive aggressiv

Re: [FRIAM] The HoTT Book | Homotopy Type Theory

Roger writes: "Definitely worth a spin if you feel like taking on a new foundation of mathematics that's less than a year old." Or even if you are a programmer that wants to write better programs... Several of those authors are involved in the development of new dependently-typed languages like A

Re: [FRIAM] PRISM

"Are we really here to consume things pre-packaged for us by others?" Like this! http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/08/nothing-but-the-soylent-were-trying-1 -full-week-of-the-meal-substitute/ Marcus mail2web.com - Microsoft®

Re: [FRIAM] PRISM

"That's good advice, for anything, not just google. But the point is to not use google at all, in response to their evil-doings." The one in the subject line? They don't have a choice in that. Just like encrypted mail services would have to misrepresent their services to customers, because

Re: [FRIAM] tired of #fail

"Wheres my technology, where's my tools that work, and are fun to use?" Software developers write software because they profit or because they want to advance the greater good. In either case, it is not just for you. If you want to see better software, grab a Linux distribution or a free editor

Re: [FRIAM] outsider everything

Some further distinctions: TT1 has a trivial prescriptive form: Employees receive guidance, and trusted employees are just those that comply with it. Or citizens learn the laws, and follow them. A remark about TT3 relates to your criticism of (non-prescriptive) universality in TT1. Putting on m

Re: [FRIAM] [sfx: Discuss] The Balancing Act That Bike-ShareRidersJustWatch - NYTimes.com

"In my example, the subscribers could continue to get the service at a given flat rate, but the "system" would then price the value of those who move bicycles according to supply and demand. There is not a stated constraint of providing "jobs" to the movers at a fixed rate? My example did tr

Re: [FRIAM] [sfx: Discuss] The Balancing Act That Bike-Share RidersJustWatch - NYTimes.com

Steve writes: > why not set up an > "options market" for the bicycles... ultimately the price of bicycles at > high-demand (source) nodes would be higher than ones at low demand > (sink) nodes. Depends whether the goal is to design a system that will provide equal access to moderate cost tran

Re: [FRIAM] [sfx: Discuss] The Balancing Act That Bike-Share Riders JustWatch - NYTimes.com

> one would have to determine the main > "sources and sinks" -- the places where riders show up needing > transport and where they most often reach their destination, > relinquishing the bikes. For designing a sharing program, I would immediately think of an agent based model layered built on a ge

Re: [FRIAM] [WedTech] Fwd: Russia Grants Snowden 1-Year Asylum -NYTimes.com

Roger writes: "Whose dog is this?" It's the dog that gets wagged.. Marcus mail2web.com – What can On Demand Business Solutions do for you? http://link.mail2web.com/Business/SharePoint ===

Re: [FRIAM] PRISM/AP kerfluffle, etc

"The problem lies with the illusion of a crisp distinction between an organization and an individual. The counter claim is: Problems in organizations ultimately reduce to problems with individuals." At every step of the way, and often in iterated private bilateral discussions, any potentially ac

Re: [FRIAM] PRISM/AP kerfluffle, etc

Glen writes: "Lrnu, V oybpxrq rirelobql ba Snprobbx." Here's some elisp code to keep them busy: (defun annoy-nsa () (interactive) (let ((start (point))) (spook) (rot13-region start (point myhosting.com - Pre

Re: [FRIAM] PRISM/AP kerfluffle, etc

"You have to provide another hint." I would but You blocked me on Facebook! :-) Marcus mail2web.com – Enhanced email for the mobile individual based on Microsoft® Exchange - http://link.mail2web.com/Personal/EnhancedEmail =

Re: [FRIAM] PRISM/AP kerfluffle, etc

"On the other hand, if what they say about his life is true, he shows a remarkable _inability_ to complete anything he starts. He seems to be a serial quitter, to me." If that were just a flake, he wouldn't have had a 6 figure salary with the NSA. He raised the black flag early in his life. Wit

Re: [FRIAM] PRISM/AP kerfluffle, etc

"4. Other stuff" The giant dragnet that would be underway for months at the NSA, torturing everyone he worked with. Marcus mail2web.com – Enhanced email for the mobile individual based on Microsoft® Exchange - http://link.ma

Re: [FRIAM] PRISM/AP kerfluffle, etc

"But most people are driven by a dynamic complex of competing agendas, including the kinds of conflict Steve asks about in his honor/oath question. Snowden, like O'Keefe, _seems_ to me to be absent any interesting complex of agendas." A contrary view is that only young people have a clear enough

Re: [FRIAM] PRISM/AP kerfluffle, etc

"If I saw that evidence, I would likely change my mind about him. But, as it stands, I see an agenda-driven child who lies to get a position, then almost _immediately_ grabs the documents and runs." What does "agenda-driven" add to your point? It seems to me if you substitute "purposeless" it wo

Re: [FRIAM] PRISM/AP kerfluffle, etc

``Labeling Cheney that way is precisely the same thing as labeling Snowden a traitor. Cheney was _trained_ ... programmed, by his service with Nixon, Ford, at Haliburton, etc. He's no more loony than Snowden. We groomed him to become what he was. It's useless to label him or place blame on him.

Re: [FRIAM] PRISM/AP kerfluffle, etc

"It's a flaw in our ... what? ... in our educational system? ... our child rearing system? ... that we leave people like Snowden behind." And let loonies like Dick Cheney become vice president. As Doug would say, we get what we deserve. Marcus

Re: [FRIAM] PRISM/AP kerfluffle, etc

"They feel like they must break the law in the service of some higher justice. That's the problem." Is it that he believed he had to break the law (e.g. was mentally ill) or that he had to break the law (because the government went off the reservation). Both and neither? ;-) Marcus -

Re: [FRIAM] PRISM/AP kerfluffle, etc

"I'd be much more interested in hearing what Snowden's co-workers and bosses think. It's too bad he wasn't there long enough to develop any real relationships with them before he flew off to Hong Kong to break his oath." I recall there was an interview late-June with one of his colleagues that ex

Re: [FRIAM] PRISM/AP kerfluffle, etc

"The point is that he saw lying to and about perfectly innocent people as his means to an end." Ironic that some of the people that are especially mad at him are in Congress! Marcus mail2web LIVE – Free email based on Microso

Re: [FRIAM] PRISM/AP kerfluffle, etc

``I think they're taking the usual approach to large data sets, save it all (or as much as you can) just in case you find an anomaly you want to study.'' A short term sample of all traffic could be used analogously to a UAV video recording. Take any suspect or event and look for any and all signal

Re: [FRIAM] PRISM/AP kerfluffle, etc

"How would you turn this into a usable tool?" If one knew all communication events between all possible hosts over time, then that organization could identify the likely relevant endpoint security to attack (e.g. using a library of purchased zero-day exploits) on, say, the likely paths of Tor conn

Re: [FRIAM] PRISM/AP kerfluffle, etc

``Regardless of opinions on the ethics/legal side, the "collect it all" approach seems just impossible for me to grok.'' Sounds like the UK is more aggressive in this regard: `full take' for 3 days. http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/interview-with-whistleblower-edwar d-snowden-on-global-s

Re: [FRIAM] OSX Memory Management - Apple/Mac FanBois only

Original email: "On Linux one can look at the swap device in /proc/diskstats and compare the swap device's counts with the update and get an estimate of writes per unit time." Perhaps non-obvious typo: update -> uptime (i.e. system uptime) --

Re: [FRIAM] OSX Memory Management - Apple/Mac FanBois only

"I did not find the article you reference but did find some descriptions of SSD memory having lifetimes of order 100,000 to 1,000,000 writes which many claimed implied a lifetime of order 10 years." It's probably fine for most people who aren't running data-intensive apps. With swap to disk, a

Re: [FRIAM] Obama on NSA Surveillance

Steve wrote: ``Or they have allowed themselves to be convinced that A) the threats from terrorism, etc are greater than the threats from loss of privacy; or B) that their privacy is already lost, they might as well have "security".A slippery slope to be sure.'' Going back to the government

Re: [FRIAM] Obama on NSA Surveillance

Glen wrote: > I think what's really happening is the > ongoing negotiation between distributed versus centralized control. Keep in mind that it (e.g. SCI) necessarily leads to distributed control mechanisms. So it's not a simple distinction between citizens opting for strong/big vs. weak/small g

Re: [FRIAM] PRISM/AP kerfluffle, etc

Steve writes: "How should Snowden (or Manning) be treated for what they have done; AND now that the cat is out of the bag, how do we followup and handle the implications of what we have discovered as a result?" I think if people are really so upset about potential for domestic surveillance --

Re: [FRIAM] [EXTERNAL] the Engineering deck on the Enterprise..

Raymond Parks wrote: "I think it needs some quadcopters zooming around and causing the occasional spark." J.J. Abrams could film the next one at the http://www.sandia.gov/z-machine/ ! Marcus mail2web.com - Microsoft® Exchange

Re: [FRIAM] Presented for FRIAMic Consideration

"As an aside, it is fascinating in its own way how little FRIAM bullshit matters, when viewed from behind the comfortable haze produced by Rosarita served up at the Dragon Room." Why don't you put down that Nexus 4 you love so much and be sociable? Marcus ---

Re: [FRIAM] John Resig - Asm.js: The JavaScript Compile Target

Well, the reason I mentioned it wasn't it was yet another "Let's fix C++ by harvesting ideas from the computer science literature." effort, e.g. D, but that it 1) is from Mozilla (Eich) and aims to be a platform for a next generation browser, and even one that runs on mobile devices, and 2) it isn'

Re: [FRIAM] John Resig - Asm.js: The JavaScript Compile Target

contrast with.. https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2013/04/03/mozilla-and-samsung-collaborate-on- next-generation-web-browser-engine/ Original Message: - From: Barry MacKichan barry.mackic...@mackichan.com Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2013 12:04:00 -0600 To: friam@redfish.com Subject: Re: [FRIAM]

Re: [FRIAM] Moz 15th birthday

"Mozilla the .ORG might be 15 but the Mozilla the Killer App is more like 20!" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u404SLJj7ig Still amazing they made it. mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://link.mail2web.com/mail2w

Re: [FRIAM] Literate CoffeeScript

Microsoft's take on reactive programming, LINQ-style. (Includes a JavaScript implementation, among others..) http://rx.codeplex.com/ And Netflix's Java implementation http://techblog.netflix.com/search/label/FRP https://github.com/Netflix/RxJava

Re: [FRIAM] Literate CoffeeScript

"That's fine, but it seems strange to promote a language because one of its features lets you work around its primary objective." Nope. Monads are a purely functional construct. A elegant generalization, Arrows, enable one to construct Unix-style pipelines, but with typed contracts. That is, im

Re: [FRIAM] Literate CoffeeScript

Russ wrote: "But it is (obviously) functional, which means no side effects. The primary purpose of a language like JavaScript is to produce side-effects that change the DOM and what is displayed by a browser. How does Fay get around that seeming incompatibility in objectives?" Haskell deals with

Re: [FRIAM] Literate CoffeeScript

So sad, and so unnecessary.. https://github.com/faylang/fay/wiki http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Literate_programming mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://link.mail2web.com/mail2web =

Re: [FRIAM] cloud backup recomendations wanted

Doug wrote: "My backup is a second and third set of spinning disks. Cron job runs each night and does rsync incremental backups. With 3 TB external USB3.0 disks costing ~$85 it's cheap to stay backed up." Do you courier them to the Trementina CST facility? Marcus -

Re: [FRIAM] Regular Expression

Sounds like a GPU programming exercise... Original Message: - From: Steve Smith sasm...@swcp.com Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 09:08:29 -0700 To: friam@redfish.com Subject: [FRIAM] Regular Expression something for the RegEx hotshots to bend their mind on: REGEXHEXXWORD

Re: [FRIAM] Two (and more) Cultures

Ed wrote: "Mesa is a viable alternative except that you are still stuck with the standard that comes out of Kronos." Mesa developers can add whatever extensions they want. What matters is what becomes popular with open source application developers. Users of Mesa could just decide like like Ogre

Re: [FRIAM] Two (and more) Cultures

Steve wrote: << I agree, that is why I live in a swamp. I care for my tools but let the morass flourish.>> Ok, let me be concrete. Consider GNU Autoconf or CMAKE. They are just a part the morass, even though they aim to cope with it. They wouldn't exist but for the morass. Huge amounts of effo

Re: [FRIAM] Two (and more) Cultures

I wrote: "For example, for a while AMD used OpenCL to discriminate themselves from nVidia (the little guy in *that* example)." To clarify, nVidia likes OpenGL -> Microsoft is competitor with DirectX. Competitors are bad. AMD likes OpenCL -> nVidia competitor with CUDA. Competitors are bad. nVi

Re: [FRIAM] Two (and more) Cultures

Ed wrote: "If you want some further evidence, take a look at the membership of Kronos committees. The research and education communities are almost totally unrepresented on any of them and they are the ones that are setting the standards that will determine the next generation of hardware and soft

Re: [FRIAM] Two (and more) Cultures

Glen wrote: "Instead, you keep (or reconstruct) the _machine_ that was used for the original research. To the extent that's not reasonable, then you run your experiments with an alternative machine and characterize how the variation introduced by the machine percolates into the variation in the r

Re: [FRIAM] Two (and more) Cultures

"The ecology I live in is a swamp, a morass, a milieu..." The swamp will always form. You don't have to care about a swamp. Marcus mail2web LIVE – Free email based on Microsoft® Exchange technology - http://link.mail2web.com

Re: [FRIAM] Two (and more) Cultures

Steve wrote: <> If you think that a corporation is the same kind of organization as a democracy.. Marcus mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://link.mail2web.com/mail2web ==

Re: [FRIAM] Two (and more) Cultures

Ed wrote: "It's hard to buy into that argument when it leaves us at the mercy of incompatible versions of Direct X and problems of dealing with third party drivers." VMware and VirtualBox both have 3D acceleration layers... Marcus

Re: [FRIAM] What was it we were just saying about Microsloth?

Nice. Now how do I disable the behavior of Google of not revealing the raw underlying URLs for Copy/Link? My solution is to use Bing! Marcus myhosting.com - Premium Microsoft® Windows® and Linux web and application hosting

Re: [FRIAM] Two (and more) Cultures

Roger wrote: "VPython is an OpenGL based package. If VPython runs stably on Windows, it's no thanks to Microsoft, Microsoft has been doing its best to embrace, devour, and kill OpenGL since 1995." The kind of freedom OpenGL (or OpenCL) gives is the kind I don't want. It's the "tunnel between wor

Re: [FRIAM] Massive, Indifferent, Brooding Silence

Steve wrote: "I recently found some curled faded sheets of dry-silver process paper (most likely FROM a 4631) in one of my stashes of nostalgic documents which I *think* were originally printouts of my junior project in computer graphics where I "invented" a cursive alphabet (stroke) which req

Re: [FRIAM] I simply don't understand why people call metenacious.

"I believe there probably are not any user-space Android, nor kernel hacks that can completely fix the ARP dropout bug that the Qualcomm driver introduces." The Qualcomm driver is not in an Google public source Linux kernel tree? Is there proprietary firmware or something? If that's so, yes, bur

Re: [FRIAM] I simply don't understand why people call metenacious.

Is it possible to build the software stack on this thing from scratch? For example, to fix the ARP offload thing by hacking its kernel? If you really want to make them look bad, point out their coding errors one by one! *That* would be tenacious. And they'd probably seek to hire you. Marcus

Re: [FRIAM] Erik Naggum's XML rant

http://perpelle.wordpress.com/artikler-og-leserinnlegg/erik-naggum-in-memori am/ http://open.salon.com/blog/kent_pitman/2009/06/24/erik_naggum_rip mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://link.mail2web.com/mail2web =

Re: [FRIAM] Erik Naggum's XML rant

> that rant was probably written at four in the morning, when many rants are. Such an essay is routine for Erik. That one is what I would call restrained. :-) Marcus mail2web.com – What can On Demand Business Solutions do fo