Apple and Crowd Sourced Location Services

The following is from this Apple link:

"Crowd-sourced Wi-Fi and cellular Location Services

If Location Services is on, your device will periodically send the geo-tagged locations of nearby Wi-Fi hotspots and cell towers in an anonymous and encrypted form to Apple to augment Apple's crowd-sourced database of Wi-Fi hotspot and cell tower locations. In addition, if you're traveling (for example, in a car) and Location Services is on, a GPS-enabled iOS device will also periodically send GPS locations and travel speed information in an anonymous and encrypted form to Apple to be used for building up Apple's crowd-sourced road traffic database. The crowd-sourced location data gathered by Apple doesn't personally identify you."

"Crowd Sourced" Interesting terminology.  Not spying because it comes from a crowd.  Hiding in a crowd makes a person anonymous.  Is that true?  Is "Crowd Source" the ultimate umbrella term that makes all data gathered from a crowd the antidote to to invading privacy of an individual?  What a wonderful thing to have an all purpose phrase that that absolves any and all data systems from any suspicion that it could invade individual privacy.  "But it was crowd sourced information, we do not know, cannot know who was in the crowd, therefore, nobody's right to privacy was violated."

Look at Apple's new patent: 

"Apple wants to help you get to your destination quicker and with less headaches. The company has been granted a patent (number 8,793,062) by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office for “routing based on detected stops.” It involves crowd-sourced info from iOS devices such as iPads, iPhones, and iPod touches regarding stop signs, stop signs, and traffic patterns."

To paraphrase the greatest fear: "I'm from Apple and I am here to help you".  Yes, indeed.  just tell me where you are in real time all the time and I will help you as I help myself to your "crowd sourced" information.  And when the government wants to know from Apple who, specifically was in that crowd at a certain point at a certain time and everywhere they had been in a real time history and is armed with a court order/warrant and has the other "degree of separation" data that can find the needle in the haystack then we will see how an individual can never hide in a crowd.

Free private enterprise is even less controlled by our privacy rights than government.  There is money to be made in private information.  The government only makes power from data and information.  Business makes big bucks from it.

Big business says crowd sourced data is OK.  No problem here in using it to help you.

Billguard is a crowd sourced app at the Apple App Store that used crowd sourced credit card info to help protect the card holder from fraud.  Lead line at the link:  "Take Control of Your Money" .  Hmmmm......parse that if you will.  Who exactly is taking control?

The App maker says at this link:

"All this data on how and where people spend their money is potentially lucrative, but Samid says his company has no plan to sell the information as marketing analytics. Instead, he says, he’ll be charging a fee to merchants to review their breach record and award them a certification based on their trustworthiness. However, this is still a few months down the road, so the details aren’t nailed down yet."

Moral hazard ahead?  Trust me, I am here to help you.

Exposing and Mitigating Privacy Loss in Crowdsourced Survey Platforms

Biometric Locking to Individual Identity

In  prior blog entry I looked at the necessity for an absolute one to one mandatory real time method for locking the identity of a unique authorized user the the the user's device connecting to the internet.

This is an Apple patent that does that. 

It makes the user a integral part of the internet of things.  Locks the unique user into the internet of things in terms of real time and space.

Optional for those that wish to do it.

It may also be mandatory as the price of admission to certain locations and associated times.  It implements and monetizes entry to privately "owned" space/time places.  On the flip side it also excludes entry to those not having the required device ID.

Kind of like gaining access to heaven with baptism.

Is there a business model here?

Israel and Palestine, 9/11, Germany and Jews, Collective Punishment, Soldiers and Civilians, Warfare, Logic and Reason and Ducks

A couple hard hitting links here:

Wall Street Journal Argument that Gazan Civilians Aren’t Innocent Is the Exact Same One Bin Laden Used To Justify 9/11

and;

Netanyahu’s ‘Telegenically Dead’ Comment Is Grotesque but Not Original

 

If it walks and talks like a duck it is a duck.  In all honesty then a duck is a duck.  The analysis of the two links is upsetting in its honest conclusion.  Something is terribly wrong when a duck on one hand is not a duck on the other but is whatever we choose to call it.  

From the first link:

"For both Rosenbaum and Bin Laden, the situation is straightforward: Because a majority of Gazans/Americans voted for leaders who used violence or waged war against Israelis/Muslims, both have forfeited their claim to noncombatant status. After all, if they wanted to avoid conflict, they wouldn’t have elected those people in the first place.
***
If you recoil from this logic, your head is in the right place. By any standard, it’s perverse and morally wrong—a justification for the worst atrocities. [And it's a war crime. And see this.]"

 

From the second link:

Benjamin Netanyahu, yesterday, on CNN, addressing worldwide sympathy for the civilian victims of Israeli violence in Gaza:

They want to pile up as many civilian dead as they can. They use telegenically dead Palestinians for their cause. They want the more dead, the better.

Joseph Goebbels, November 16, 1941, essay in Das Reich, addressing Germany sympathy for German Jews forced to wear yellow stars:

"The Jews gradually are having to depend more and more on themselves, and have recently found a new trick. They knew the good-natured German Michael in us, always ready to shed sentimental tears for the injustice done to them. One suddenly has the impression that the Berlin Jewish population consists only of little babies whose childish helplessness might move us, or else fragile old ladies. The Jews send out the pitiable. They may confuse some harmless souls for a while, but not us. We know exactly what the situation is."

Read both links to get the full context but what it boils down to is that if the citizens of a nation elect a government that commits crimes against humanity then those civilians are responsible for the crimes and therefore not non-combatants in any war justified by those crimes.  Civilians are therefore soldiers in civilian clothes.   Fair game.

My prior post looked at the nature of Algorithmic Regulation as a universal operating system on which any application programs can be run.  The fundamental Algorithm Regulation seems to be that collective punishment of a population for existence and actions defined as unacceptable or otherwise criminal and attributed to or imposed upon a given population.

WTF?  We can do it to them for the same reasons they cannot do it to us?  Where is logic reason and justice in all of this argument?

What about "Do unto others"

When a population is doing unto others......what is expected in return?  What is justified in return?

Ghandi?

Oh.....but there is a difference.........isn't there always a difference.  That is why Algorithmic Regulation does not work like an operating system.

Some claim the bible as an Algorithmic Regulation Operating System.

Some claim the Apple IOS as an Algorithmic Regulation Operating System.

Can a just social Algorithmic Regulation Operating system built on collective objective intelligent logic and reason that best serves global society be possible?

We in fact have such a System today.  It is what it is and it needs to be restructured in accordance with the best models we have created so far for universal systems.  The Information Age has given us the tools to create an a system and it is only the beginning of its creation if we use our heads.  If we do not then systems crash.

Sand Creek Massacre: 

"Damn any man who sympathizes with Indians! ... I have come to kill Indians, and believe it is right and honorable to use any means under God's heaven to kill Indians. ... Kill and scalp all, big and little; nits make lice.

—- Col. John Milton Chivington^[15][16]"

 

 

Algorithmic Regulation (AR)

This is an excellent read for a Sunday morning at this link.  It grabs an idea and then wanders all over the place with it just like my mind does.  It is an idea that I have thought about before but reading it as expressed by someone else gives it new light.  It still wanders all over the place and that is the fun in where it takes me.

Rules and regs drive our lives.  The do and don'ts of living.  Do this because, don't do that because.  Do good things and do the better good thing to get get better, be better, whatever the nature of judgmental "better" happens to be.  Relatively dependent on who is laying down the definitions.  There are rewards for choosing the better thing defined by whoever hands out the reward incentives or the disincentive not to choose the better thing......guilt in not doing a better thing.  Or, simply not doing your best. 

On the other hand don't do this, don't do that on the negative side of rules and regs have bigger, badder biting teeth for non-compliance.  "Do no harm" might be the continental divide of good and bad where anything on the good side is OK but some things are more OK than others with a wide latitude of choice as long as the no harm rule is observed.  On the bad side, bad is bad unlike a choice between two good alternatives, one being "better good" somehow, defined by some thing.

Algorithmic Regulation is learning starts early in life.  At birth.  Anything goes for a baby then it starts to learn what goes and what does not.  It gets more and more complex.  An operating system is simply a highly organized form of Algorithmic Regulation with millions of lines of code to sort out all the things to be done and do them with consistency.

Family values set AR rules and regs.  Then school and then wider society in general as age progresses.  Religion sets AR based on authority.  Catholic school taught me that all authority comes from God.  The AR setter.  A range of good deeds, good paths to choose from, the road to hell clearly defined with major and minor do-nots.  Mortal sin (death of the soul go to hell things) and venial sin where only some time out is assigned.  Then there is cross over.  Not doing the best possible thing in the good side with the talent given by God somehow warrants the punishment of a choice and action assigned to doing a no-no.  It is however essentially binary good/bad situation.  Rarely does doing some transgression on the bad side get of the algorithm get a heavenly reward unless it is done in the name of God.  It gets confusing if too many questions are asked and the Algorithmic Regulation has ambiguity or illogical premise.  The rule in this case is don't ask questions.  Have faith, I suppose.  If you don't it is against the rules.

An Operating System as an Algorithmic Regulation processor shifts the line of thought about good and bad to a highly defined and structured conceptual social control system.  A system that addresses the nature of both cause and effect in social system structures.

At this point roaming general thoughts about good and bad stuff driving our lives and the broader nature of the collective life called society the application of AR like an operating system becomes very fascinating.

With a little time out to go kayaking I will come back to that fascinating idea that the AR link presented.

An Operating System, the kind necessary for AR is a science kind of thing.  Belief (faith) however is not a science kind of thing unless it has a science structured set of tests.  This is an excellent link describing how the Libertarian Belief in Absolute Property Rights leads to Climate Change Denial. 

Something to ponder while I paddle.

Placemeter Gold Mining Data. Now Hiring Miners. No experience necessary

Mathbabe rang the bell on this one with her post here at this link.

Placemeter.com

Monetizing the data base is a business model.  Data creation opportunities for those with location advantage is open to anyone.  All it takes is someone to create the input structure and a scale of payment to the information originators.  Originators that probably already have the equipment and wifi connection necessary.  It is easy money and nothing, no privacy rules or regs stand in the way.

Once Placemeter has the aggregated data it can be analyzed with various programs to produce metrics that can be sold as a product.

Privacy: From the website, plain and simple:  "We’ll never record or store any of the video our Meters capture".

Yes, but.........Big Data is a Big Market.  A data network market.  What is not used by one player is available to "Associates", "Business Partners".  They are given access to the fire hose feed to do what ever they want with the data. Record, store, analyze.  Maybe just record and store and not analyze only make available under court order or warrant to law enforcement.  Law enforcement paying for the service.

Big Data wants to make Big Bucks.  The motivation to make Big Bucks will somehow find a way to work around any privacy considerations.

In a prior blog I looked at the obvious opportunity for everyone to get in on the money of data origination.  In the case of License Plate Reading, anyone with a camera on their car or semi truck could make a few extra bucks while they are driving capturing license plate numbers and feeding them to a consolidator for a penny per X number read.

I currently have a BLE app that detects iBeacons and reports them to the company that made the App.  I wonder what they are doing with what is being reported by me for free.  Perhaps I should get a few pennies out of the deal for being an information minor.

In a way it is similar to the original Bitcoin mining model.  Anyone with a computer could be a miner.  Until it became worthwhile to use more than just any computer anyone has.

I expect that Placemeter would develop a scale of payments depending on how good the info was and if the camera was high def and if the equipment at the Placemeter site was remotely controlled to select location of view and zoom able.  Placemeter may even provide the equipment or lease it to those with a special location.

Placemeter has a potential gold mine as well as willing miners line up to get the opportunity to mine the gold for a few bucks.  The gold they mine will be worth much more.

This is the App at Google Play.

It says to install only on an old smart phone.  What?  Pay for service on an old smart phone just to send Placemeter a video stream?  Must be by wifi not cell.   Yes, wifi from the FAQ.  Note that Placemeter will provide a device if the originator does not have one.  Placemeter will obviously cherry pick the best locations, low hanging fruit.

Internet service providers have caps on usage, usually high since they are looking to the future for increased use and charges as people stream more video into their homes.  Streaming data out exceeding allowances may be an unexpected surprise to the data providers!

While Placemaker emphasizes  that it does not track individual identified people exactly what laws prohibit them from doing that by private citizens from their own home window views or selling the view to someone that does?  What laws prohibit Placemaker from recording and retaining streamed video.   Could the entity recording their street view record and retain and them sell the recorded information to anyone that would pay them for it.  What it a private investigator wanted access to a participating entity's video because they saw there was a camera in a window recording something that would be of interest them them.  This is a standard feature to record and date time stamp home security video. 

Big Data starts with the smallest granular data points.  We are all data points as well as data point collectors and and originators that feed to Big Data.   To the extent we are harvesters of granular data about others and our environment the data we give about ourselves and what we can collect from the environment we are in has value for us to give/harvest and sell.  Is anything that we can publicly and
legally see hear or otherwise sense or claim as personal information to do with as we please restricted from harvesting and selling in data market?

Privacy is headed for an exception base definition as it progresses from a general rule of expectation.

Update on this blog entry on 8 August this link: 

The View From Your Window Is Worth Cash to This Company

 

What Kind of a Thing is the New York Federal Reserve Bank?

This post at Zero Hedge this morning is a lot of head scratching to figure out what kind of a thing the NY Fed is.  If what kind of a thing a thing is then the general nature of that thing is already established by the nature of its higher level or "Parent Object" thing.  Half the battle is already therefore won.  The rest is simple:  What are the unique attributes of the "Child Object" thing that make it different from all its other siblings

For example:  What kind of tree is this?   What attributes does it share with all trees?  With similar trees?  Which are unique?  Does it walk like a duck.  Don't know?  Ask Darwin, he was good at it.

There is an assumption of some controlling logic to the organization of things.  It is a good assumption for things in the natural world.  It is also a good assumption for things in a human conceptual related world.  The difference is that in the natural order of things world fundamental things, "Parent Objects" at the top of the ontology of which all things inherit attributes are controlling objects.  If your parents did not have children, you can't have them either.

In a conceptual structure existing as a product of the  human mind independent of the natural world but similar to it in that it claims a lineage as concrete as can be found in the natural world to validate its logical existence, the logic of the argument is hard to pin down and may or may not be logical at all.  That problem in truth is easy to leap over on the premise that problem domain is just like nature and the driving force of the creator of nature and natural law also applies:  God wants it that way.

So what kind of a thing is the New York Fed?

Exactly what God wanted it to be of course.

How many questions in this world of human nature are answered with that reply.

There are two ways to look at a conceptual high level thing created by the human mind.  Money is one of those high level big things.  One is what the thing is and the other is what a thing does.   In the entire history of human perception the first and easiest to perceive is what a thing does.  What a thing "is" and why it is what it is has emerged as a deeper meaning and higher level analysis of the thing beyond, but still tied to what the thing does.  The basic idea in the deeper look is that what a thing does is driven by what a thing is.  In nature, what a thing "is" is a dictate of natural law to be discovered to explain what it does.  In conceptual creations of the human mind that create structures outside the dictates of natural law, although it may claim to be in accordance with natural law and all the dictates that laws of nature establish, stuff that comes purely from the mind comes from a different world, different rules.  Trace back to where it all comes from in the beginning to discover the source and logic and where does that go?

One Creator of All Things is a common conception.   In the natural world a good place to start and proceed with a clear understanding of the boundary of physical word and meta physical world.  Science being the physical domain.  The non-physical domain?  Just call it non-science until it is defined into the physical domain.  Out in that non-science domain there are many explanations

In our conceptual human mind created world  we have structures that interpret the natural world as explanations of what was not created by us but by nature.  Nature is a good model.  Beyond that we can conceptualize anything that we can dream up that works.

Things that work in our human mind conceptualized dreamed up world can be structured things that "work" (function) to independent degrees of association with what the thing dreamed up "is" but more related to what it does.  In other words,  some products of human thought have loose binding to what the thought thing is.

There is a loose binding between what money is and what money does.  I look at money as a Thing that has illogical relationship to what money should do.  It has, from a sub-optimized viewpoint of the entity that created the Money concept a very logical, from that self serving viewpoint, structure.  It serves the creator well.

The NY Fed is the creator of money.

If the conceptual structure of money was created to serve first and foremost a different entity, The People, it would have a different conceptual structure foundational premise.

The NY Fed created a debt based monetary system.  It was designed by the NY Fed to serve their self interest objective:  Make money on their design and control of the money system.  The controlling function is debt.  The monetary system is a functional based and driven system.

A monetary system designed first and foremost to serve the interest of the people would be founded on an object base, not a function base.  An object base of what money is, not what it does first for special interest and secondarily for those that use the system.

Debt is a function.  A "debt free" monetary system design Object is the place to start as the foundation of a conceptual system to serve the needs of those that use it. 

Object based design systems are simply better than function design based systems.  That is the way that nature is designed.

Objects come first, functions follow.  The Information Age is the emergence of Object Orientation.

That prior statement is hard for even the practitioners of the Information Age to comprehend.  Especially those that are products of the birth of the Information Age in the last century that will hold on to their conceptual belief in the supremacy and dominance of the functional based system design and analysis.  Object and functions combine is system design but Objects embody their fuctions.

This link is an example of the defense of the Functional design and implementation approach.  Functional designers will hold on to their belief in Functional design and programming supremacy until the end.  that end will come when that school of thought dies with them.  They are functional programmers and only program the designs of Object oriented analysts that integrate Objects and their functions but start with Objects first that encapsulate functions.

The functional based and dominated monetary system design will die at the hands of an Object Oriented monetary system design built on the concept of what money is, not what money does. 

The functional based and dominated monetary system design will not die easy.  Object Oriented monetary system design will triumph based on logic and reason.  The functional based system must defend the premise that a monetary system is not built on an "Object Thing".  They must defend a monetary system built on a function of Debt which is the relationship of two primary Object Things in the debt loan loan relationship.  Asset and Liability  Asset to one party, Debt to the other.  The relationship implemented by the function of money.

The functional based debt money monetary system is going to die.  I hope it will elegantly skin itself into its own demise with a smooth transition into an object oriented debt free monetary system because the alternative of skinning it in the old fashion way is both unproductive and messy.

In the big picture of social systems we seem to have progressed from big destructive land and related resource acquisition to less bloody but equally destructive economic warfare acquisition of power and control of resources aggregating to the few through the debt money system.  The third stage will be more equitable sharing based on an object oriented monetary system designed with that objective.

Our country was founded on the principal of what government is.  Based on the design of what government is as a thing, what that thing does as a function is logically derived.  The founding principal of Object Oriented Design can be subsequently subverted with a shift back to former failed Functional based designs and focus on functional design dominance at lower levels inconsistent with  object oriented design method dominance control of the entire system.  Our monetary system is the primary example of the conflict between an Object Oriented system design approach and the socially entrenched world wide centuries old Functional Oriented system design approach.

Functions change.  Objects are persistent.  That is some kind of rule that I believe rules.  Build on Objects, based on design functions will naturally follow.  That is good creation art.  Objects come first, then their relationships implemented by functions even in our mythology.

At all costs, the Debt Based Banking System absolutely must maintain social focus on what money does as a functional based system and not allow any consideration of what money is as an object.  That means total denial that it even exists independently with an identity and attributes as a foundational Object in the first place.     Only the function of a loan gives the concept any meaning and role.  The only role being a functional one to serve the debt relationship which the Banking System is built upon.  Any concept of money being an high level object based thing rather than a function based entity relationship undermines the foundation objective of the Banking system.  To make money on the function of money.  It is a business called a racket when it serves the racketeers to the detriment of society.  More than that it defies logic and reason of "common good".

Start asking about what kind of an Object Thing is the NY Fed  is, independent of what it does, which is its natural function of what it is and the entire Functional  debt money design and implementation starts to unravel in favor of a better Object Oriented design based on first what money is then what to do with it to implement the design objective.  Money is a thing, a tool to build something.  An Operating system system on which to run a variety of application programs.

iBeacons Coming - Soon an Big Time

Growth Update
https://www.wired.com/2017/05/hundreds-apps-can-listen-beacons-cant-hear/

This report sees 60 million iBeacon/BLE devices in use in 5 years.  That is rapid growth.

Note:  iBeacons can only transmit.  The iBeacon device has no communication reception capabilities.  It is a one way transmit device only.  After transmission of whatever an iBeacon device transmits, it is entirely up to a receiving App on a receiving device to do something and/or communicate something via standard Wifi, cell or Bluetooth communication.

In a prior post I considered the granularity of Big Data.  While it was the start of a closer look at granularity, the thoughts were not extended but suspended for awhile.

The thought was that granularity at one end and Big Data at the other is a two part thing.

One part is the granularity of "internet of things" devices getting more granular all the time.  iBeacons and BLE being examples.  As they get smaller, their range gets smaller but their range is not isolated.  It is more like the last inch in the extension of internet wireless communications.  The last inch being a device that has a geo positioning/person identification down to the last inch.  Not only that, if the device has personal link to the owner/holder in some inseparable biometric fashion that cannot, or cannot easily be detached then the person has the identity of the device and vice versa.  More or less like home detention devices placed on offenders.

iBeacons reception with an chosen app is voluntary of course.  However, if the requirement for admission or use or privilege of lower price shopper ID is having a specialized
vendor App of some sort then of course exclusion is a mighty motivator to have the App.


Another item I read this morning describes an innovation to be tested at a European airport that will automatically text a passenger to get out their passport when in proximity to a point where it will be required.  Obviously some detection of proximity if an iBeacon type device is involved for detection.  Then an app must be triggered to alert the user about something.

I like to speculate.  Especially when it is so simple and easy as reading the writing on the wall.  Like I have some kind of mystical crystal ball revealing the obscure and unknown.  A testament perhaps to my keen intellect and foresight.  Not at all really when it is so easy to see.  The wonder is why so few see it.  Their problem or mine.

Tracking people in a geo confined space through a iBeacon or similar BLE device with a tracing app on the receiving device transmitting location and other contextual information is obviously going to be an explosive growth thing.

That is the segue to the other part of granularity and Big Data.  The first part being the internet of device things.  The second part uses the analogy of the Internet and the World Wide Web (WWW).  The Internet being the network of connected computers devices and communications lines, (wired/unwired in one big connection scheme).  The WWW being all the interlinked http information sites of information and their sub category interlinked information structures.  The WWW that was created by Tim Berners-Lee.

Don't get the internet confused with the WWW.  We casually call all the information world the resides on the computer network the "Internet"  It is not the internet, it is the WWW.  When we do an "Internet Search" we are searching the WWW that exists on an Internet structure.

The Internet and the WWW are inter twined like our minds and our bodies.

Information about things is becoming more granular in the WWW.  One of the more or most important things in the WWW relating to information is people or more specifically a unique singular instance of the plural people:  A person.  A person that is becoming identified in time and space with growing specificity as devices become more granular to the level of a mandatory one to one relationship with the owner/operator/user.

In the world of Object Oriented Information Engineering the general building block of the most complex structures is the one to one unique and exclusive mandatory relationship that identifies the most fundamental unit entity on which the structure is organized.

A uniquely identifiable human being, of which there is no other, identified by some conceptual identification naming scheme is the building block of a social information structure.  Maybe a number, maybe a hash.  Simple names don't suffice any more in an information world where ambiguity is not allowed and exactness in the identification of all things in the information system as well as their known methods to do something and messages they respond to is mandatory.

Biometric iWatches triggered to transmitting by iBeacons proximity and communicating directly other devices within proximity , Wifi or cellular  or standard Bluetooth reporting time/space/and related attribute information about a uniquely identified person in real time is a fantasy proposition on which to base science fiction flights of imagination.

Science fiction more often than not becomes science fact!

Interesting to speculate how all this science fiction might be applied in an example.  One where it is really important to track many people in a specific geographical area for a period of time measured in hours and minutes.  Like a store or an airport or any venue where an admission price is paid to enter the area and roam at will, or by strict control around it.

SparkCompass illustrates the use of iBeacons and their platform at this link.

This appears to be the model:  iBeacon broadcast proximity location to your device pinpointing where you are at and your device gives you some valuable contextual information in return.  A transactional model.  Spark Compass used the San Diego Convention Center as an example.  Could have been a major airport.

The model would not work as well if it was:  Tell me who you are (vendor provided App)  and where you are at (geo info transmitted to your receiving device by BLE iBeacon type device)  and then transmitted via Wifi, Cell or Bluetooth to a tracking center and I will give you nothing in return except security.  The trackee may or may not be aware of tracking.  May or may not have authorized it by opt in, avoided it by opt out.  If you do not have your cell phone turned on for the tracking center to learn who you are and where you are at someone, a security official will make you turn it on or forfeit your cell phone.  That is the new TSA rule in foreign airports.  Coming to the USA under the guise of "enhanced customer experience"?

TSA New Security Measures

New measures from TSA today at this link. 

It applies to flights to the USA.  Electronic devices must be powered up.

The surveillance tactic is so obvious.  Powered up devices transmit wifi, bluetooth and cellular signals.  Detecting these signals and the unique data they transmit can be associated to an individual with that device by spoofing them to connect with a sniffer and identify themselves.

My guess: Signal sniffers are probably in use by TSA at all airports.  Next step is probably to apply the new security measure to US airports.

This prior post looked at device/owner/holder identification at airport security points:  TSA Wifi and Bluetooth Device MAC Address Sniffing While You Wait in Line - Cancelled--Really? 

This report of cell phone tracking,  probably to "enhance the airport experience" calls the tracking the first application of tracking of this type in a US Airport.

Independence Day --- 4 July 20??

......endowed by its Creator with certain unalienable Rights,...........

The 4th of July.  The day we celebrate our declaration of the endowment and self proclaim our independent free right to it.  That is a good reason to do something like start a Revolution.

But I changed one word in quote:  I changed "their" to "its" because I want to blog about a declaration of independence for the domination of our monetary system.  In the original endowment statement the word is "their", of course.  Their meaning the all of us that claim a creator, which is all of us, although some claim a one true creator more than others that claim any one or any thing they wish like nature or whatever.  I see that as Freedom of Choice right up front.  Good for an open mind and tolerance of thought differences.  Others would say it is a capital C Creator and that means only one thing in whom we trust.  That dictates a different form of government from the start.  Fortunately a broader interpretation applied.

Our monetary currency system, money, was endowed by its Creator with certain unalienable rights.  "Its" in the case of the monetary system is not us.  It is the banking system.  The banking system created it for its own benefit to live off those that would be users of its own system by design.  Those that were in a rock and hard place situation for money.  Like a captive audience, captured market.  Throwing a life vest to someone in need.  First, of course getting agreement as to how much the saving life vest would cost in return.

They designed as Its Creator a system that has endured.  Like other systems that have been designed by its creator that deal with ultimate issues of life and death.

We created our own form of government, as goes the Genesis story we celebrate today, to call down upon ourselves and our children the blessings of the thing that we declared to be our right to do.  We like Genesis stories.  They tell and give the explanation for how it all began, In the Beginning.

Bankers are not the Almighty nor are they the all mighty by self proclamation endowing themselves with exclusive rights......but they did.  Very clever of them to create their self serving "Built for me but not for Thee' system and creating a class of people that benefit greatly in terms of the measurement unit of the very same system they created.  We would call it a rigged system.  Of course it is.  It was created by those that designed it to win...mostly for itself...cleverly by designing, creating and giving life to a conceptual goose to lay a golden egg. 

The banking money currency system does not serve us first.  It serves its creator.  It serves it first and foremost, in the beginning and to the end.  It will always have the money that it needs to satisfy the purpose of its creation: Power.   Power by virtue of inalienable right to call debts due.  The power of Creators loving right to take back at its time of choosing that which has been given.  Socially enshrined in law of the land that only gives a qualified time and place of total payment unlike the time and place that no person ever knows.   Since it is to big to fail there is no end in sight for the Creator itself but isn't that why we give that kind of Creator a capital "C"?  Nor was there and end in sight if a different course of action was not declared by the Continental Congress in 1776.

Things, social institutions created by persons that are a small segment of the greater society can be changed by their Creators that proclaim "We the People"

The banking currency monetary system serves itself based on a bondage principle of debt.  Money is created out of nothing by a loan agreement between two parties.  All currency money in the current system is born of this agreement.  By design!  An we know whose and who that design foundation serves best.

Be absolutely clear that I am talking about money currency.  What money essentially is, not what it does, that is economy.  In the economy debt creation is necessary.  It gives money for a promise of future return after it is used to fulfill hopes and dreams so abundantly that there is more than enough to return what was originally given and have wealth that it created retained after the loan is paid off.  Kind of like going to the promised land in the end!  It is a pervasive social conception motivation.

Currency money is our asset to give to ourselves.  Our currency is currently an asset by virtue the fact that it is debt to a banker that created it as a bank asset and our debt upon our acceptance.  It is debt based currency.

Our government has the right to created money that is debt free but sub contracted that right to free private enterprise called banking because, maybe, a government of the people could not be trusted to create and administer a monetary system itself.  That is an application of the check and balance system thinking that gave rise to three branches of government.

Government of the People and by the People (chosen representatives) has changed since we proclaimed it to be exactly that.  Technology has given us gift to create systems to serve us.  Government of the People has evolved to become by the People by virtue of the institutionalizing the governing of ourselves into the current systems we have created to do the governing.

It will take a crises to give rise to a new Declaration of Monetary Currency Independence from Banks to establish a positive money system where banks do not create the debt money itself but use the positive money we create for out own general use as a medium of exchange to loan out to those that would use and return it to us.

Debt must not the reason for being the building block cornerstone that creates the existence of our monetary currency.  Debt is only one of the many things that we do with money that we create as a positive thing that once created continues to serve us by being shared as a positive based unit of value among us.

The day we declare that money is a positive object that serves primarily our own first and foremost benefit because we are its creators will be another Declaration of Independence to celebrate.  When that time comes it should be declared on the 4th of July 2???

Cycorp

Cycorp is doing amazing things in the field of Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence. Cycorp has an excellent website explaining not only what they are doing but providing sufficient overview documentation of the system they have created to get it done.

The fundamental nature of the computational trinity consisting of Logic, Language and Structure is something that I have written about previously in this blog.  Cycorp is applying the fundamental nature of our natural language logic, thought process and structure to Artificial Intelligence.

Cycorp is not the only one doing research in this area.  IBM has Watson, etc.  Cycorp however gives an excellent view of the state of the art by presenting it well at its website.

NLP fascinates me!

Mobius Money

This posting at Naked Capitalism kicked off a raging discussion: Randall Wray:  "Debt Free Money- A Non-Sequitur in Search of a Policy.

When the only way to look at money is dogma that it the only money system is a debt based, balance sheet system then Debt Free Money is, of course, heretical.  Not really any system at all but a fallacy in search of a good laugh.  Debt money is the fallacy.  Illogical, serving its creators, the banking system.. Why not, why else would would the banking system create anything other than a debt based system?  Would the banking system create it for the common good?  The banking system would claim that what it created was ultimately for the common good in the same sense that everyone pursuing they own best interest ultimately contributes to the best interest of economic society.

The Debt Money system is wrong.  Fundamentally wrong.  As wrong as building a conceptual structure on a negative premise of debt creating assets.  The system must be restructured on a basis of asset creation with not debt related offset balance.   Object Oriented System design demands that money be a positive object super class.  Debt creation is not the geniuses of money.  Debt creation is one method of Positive Money implemented by a child of Positive Money way down the child tree that knows methods to create a debt contractual relationship with Negative Money. 

If a creator of a monetary system designs it entirely to benefit itself and the way it benefits itself the most is through debt creation then....duh!.....the entire system is based on a debt creation concept.  Debt creators rule the current system.  The system is as wrong as anything that is ruled by a dominating ideology that it based on false logic premise.  If Debt Money was a religion it would be protected under the mantle of religious tolerance that allows belief in anything that we wish to believe in regardless of scientific logic and reason that human beings apply to our social structures like concepts of freedom.

It is time to declare a revolution and declare independence from Debt Money rule.

My comment added to the discussion:

Money is a representation of a debt relationship, It is a two sided coin. One side asset, the other side debt.

Maybe Debt Free Money is a Mobius Strip concept. Money that has only has one surface and one edge. Like a Mobius Strip that is a complex concept. One in which there is no other side to the coin? One side without the other. How can that concept exist to any logical mind? Of what use would be a Debt Free Mobius Coin be in the conceptual structure of a monetary system used by an economy?
Only a paradigm shift in thinking would see the future possibilities. Maybe we are so constrained by the dogma burden of a debt based balance sheet thinking past that thinking in terms of any other concept is as impossible as as comprehending the nature and application of a Mobius Strip debt free coin?

Is a one sided debt free coin a win/win proposition? It would drive debt to be merely one application of a monetary operating system, not the operating system itself that produces debt based two sided coin money as one of its functional applications. The horse and cart would paradigm shift.

Who does it benefit to have the cart before the horse on the way to the market?

Mobius Strip Music, Math and Michio

Continuing my fascination with Mobius Strips.

Link to Mobius Strip music is here.  Bach did it in his head.

Making Music With a Mobius Strip Link here.  Wrap your mind around this link like a Mobius Strip!  Listen to the music!

Space -Time Explained with a Music Box and a Mobius Strip at this link Caution Warning:  It will blow your mind!

I feel a connection here to Michio Kaku at this link

"So first of all, we are nothing but melodies. We are nothing but cosmic music played out on vibrating strings and membranes. Obeying the laws of physics, which is nothing but the laws of harmony of vibrating strings." 

What's Money got to do with it?

I don't know!

Is the only thing they all have in common just the complexity of the Mobius Strip?

Did Alice fall into a Mobius Strip Non Orientable Worm Hole? 

The beginning is the end in a Mobius Strip.

What sports game could be played out on a Mobius Strip field?  This is Mario Bros on a Mobius Strip.  What rules would govern a Mobius Strip Game?  One left hand team, one right hand team.  there is a complex binary relationship here on a Unitary field?

From this link:

"The Mobius strip is the ultimate metaphor for something simple, yet profound -- something anyone could have discussed centuries prior to its discovery, but didn't. The Mobius strip is a metaphor for magic and mystery, and a perpetual icon that stimulates us to dream new dreams and look for depths even in seemingly shallow waters. "