Monday, August 15, 2016

Pokemon Go -- Phoning Home?

What if Pokemon Go was sending all real time video captured by the phone camera to a cloud storage point?

Obviously it is not.  Data use would be too high.

But...But...what if it was.  What if it could in the future offering some inducement for the user to knowingly send video of their Pokemon pursuit?  It would in effect like putting a Google street view cam in the hands of everyone playing Pokemon and then fixing the place of Pokemon appearance to lead users to the geo point and record video.  Putting the character directly in front of the geo point of interest taking video.

Or, simply a few still frame pictures which is not much of a data use load.

If Pokemon Go is not phoning home video now them might it be phoning home snapshots of places that the creators/managers of the game want for some unknown reason?  How did those geographical point pictures get into the game in the first place?

Say that I want a snapshot of a particular place in the USA.  I simply introduce a Pokemon to that point and wait for someone to try and capture it.  Link it to every ball thrown to take a picture and send it.  What if that place was someplace that was rather restricted to the point of not being legally accessible? Who would be breaking the law if they did not take the picture but only got it from a player in an unauthorized place taking a picture of it as a function of playing the game.

The virtual Pokemon could simply be filtered out of the picture.

The possibilities are here....just takes imagination to extract value from them.

This thing is big.

I really don't know much about Pokemon yet.

This link talks about phoney Pokemon Go apps that steal info on the phone.
http://www.12news.com/news/local/hackers-use-pokemon-go-to-infect-your-phone/269874845
 That is one thing to beware of but...............

If the real game was hacked in a manner to send pictures or even bursts of video to a hacking source like the NSA of very specific geo locactions, indoors as well as outdoors then some valuable information could be captured.

My knowledge of Pokemon Go is sadly lacking.  Google is an involved player.
http://fortune.com/2016/07/12/google-pokemon-go/

This from the Naked Capitalism Watercooler 15 August 2016: http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/08/200pm-water-cooler-8152016.html
"The Bezzle: “The suddenly vast scale of Pokemon Go adoption is matched by the game’s aggressive use of personal information. Unlike, say, Twitter, Facebook, or Netflix, the app requires uninterrupted use of your location and camera — a ‘trove of sensitive user data,’ as one privacy watchdog put it in a concerned letter to federal regulators” [The Intercept]. “All the more alarming, then, that Pokemon Go is run by a man whose team literally drove one of the greatest privacy debacles of the internet era, in which Google vehicles, in the course of photographing neighborhoods for the Street View feature of the company’s online maps, secretly copied digital traffic from home networks, scooping up passwords, email messages, medical records, financial information, and audio and video files.” That’s not a bug…  "

Operating Systems and Owning it All

This was attached in the Panopticon blog entry.  I liked it enough to boost it to its own entry even if I am the only one that knows why. 

Creating and owning the  Operating System is the key to the kingdom.  Everything else is Application Program.  http://www.businessinsider.com/google-building-new-operating-system-fuchsia-not-based-on-android-linux-kernel-2016-8

The rule of things is that there are only 6 to 8 and certainly no more than 12 major categories of SuperClass entities into which all things are divided and one thing from which they all derive.  Each has in turn 6 to 8 ChildClasses and so on.  All entities at any level are relational to all other entities and ultimately the one Single Entity from which they all derive.  That entity is, of course, a PlaceHolder but nevertheless must be figuratively there to complete the relational pyramid.  That is its sole purpose for being and sole function.

That PlaceHolder "does" nothing but complete the relational circle.  It is nothing.  It is only a SingularThing with no higher order relationship.  It only relates to itself and its only known implementing action is a recursive relationship to Itself.  It is the ultimate conceptual TopDog chasing its tail.  

What is "It"?  

Anything we want it to be.  It does not matter what the conceptual identity of the PlaceHolder is.  It might be more of and eternal catalyst than anything thing else.  Just the ultimate "Given".  Attempting any detailing of the concept beyond that is just spinning your Mobius Strip wheels on the circle of eternity.  

Put it in gear by engaging with a SomeThingEntity below the TopDogPlaceholder that only knows OneTrick to implement the one relationship to AnyOtherThing and that OnlyOtherThing is itself.

Singularity.  

Wander into eternity chasing that or engage with ChildObjects of TopDog and go somewhere.  Those ChildObjects are the 6-8 Operating systems of our real world to which belongs.  Each is a matter of point of view but that is what organizes it all and gives the model structure for our conceptual world and the means to make decisions.

Money is a conceptual social decision making tool OperatingSystem.

Maybe Everything is just Information.  Like everything is just WaveTheory.  

Own the InformationOperatingSystem and own everything it does in terms of Applications.

Good thing that Google business model is do no Evil.  That was Lucifer's too until that entity placed the crown of TopDog upon its head implementing a SupremeRecursiveRelationship.

Ha!  A higher order Entity put an eternal end to that.  There is no binary at the top.  Lucifer thought it was the BringerOfDawn, the MorningStar.  

Biblical and Mythological stories have much to tell us.  They are stories we tell about ourselves.



Sunday, August 14, 2016

Non fui, fui, non sum

A Bon mot: find it
http://medusaskitchen.blogspot.com/2016/08/visitors.html?m=1

Facing Down the Panopticon - Can't Face It Down, Only Say Hello

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/08/12/facing-down-the-panopticon/

This link starts with a reference to communication slabs being installed in NYC.  Then it leaves this reference and goes on to examine spy trade craft.  More, give me more on those strange monoliths appearing in NYC!  Not in the link.  I have to go get it myself.  Not hard to do.

Take your pick of Google hits and learn all about it.

It is free!  Always the best price.  An excellent business model too.  How to give something away for nothing and make money doing it.  Works for Google.

Yes but what is the price?  Free communication opens the door to free information transiting through a third party owned system that mines it all for the gold nuggets.  The generally applicable gold nuggets but the best ones are probably individual unique user identifiable.  Identifiable as to user, place, time, and specific content.  All that content to be transcribed to text as a person speaks so as to be searchable.  Perhaps only on keyword that are captured as spoken.  Perhaps entire text on targeted cell phone and user.  Phone/User being an combination of two unique entity objects each identified by a unique identifier.  An electronic one for the phone and in the best of all worlds a fingerprint as a biometric identifier on a user iPhone.  That biometric identifier is quick and easy if there was a way to detect that the phone was unlocked for use by a finger print rather than the code number.  That biometric identifier is not necessary, just two factor ID because voice print is probably just as good.

Infrastructure.  The set up is all about infrastructure.  And, of course a no bid exclusive franchise from the city of NYC to do it and turn it into a money tree.

https://www.google.com/?client=seamonkey-a#q=wifi+kiosks+nyc:  
7,500 wifi Kiosks is the plan.  But it is like putting up figurative telephone poles.  All kinds of other things can be hung off of the poles.  Like a camera, gun shot detector, shorter range RFID, etc.  Whatever makes money or is government funded so it does not have to make money.  In effect the kiosks are a virtual road for any "vehicles" to travel.   Aha!  Add another add on:  Whatever special needs, hardware and software, it takes to provide services to self driving vehicles!  Self driving bicycle messenger services?  Self driving Segways?

To the point:  Great service but what is the cost?  The hidden cost to the user?  The surveillance price?  We will never know until someone blows the whistle.  Who is CityBridge?  Who are they behind the curtain of "a consortium" of beneficial ownership and partnership?  Probably more partnership because partnership with a business entity is like partnership of two people.  Special lawful access.  Ownership gets the money.  A partnership (at a price) pays off in benefits.

CityBridge:  Looks like LinkNYC for infrastructure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LinkNYC  That creates the road network?  Who are they that will travel on it besides the users?  In other words:  Who are the Users of the Users.  Perhaps more precisely:  Who is the top dog ultimate Biggest User in charge of the operating system and therefore its most beneficial owner of the System on which all the applications are run.  It is a new higher order Operating System conceptual structure and everyone know the golden rule:  She who owns the gold rules!  She who owns the operating system, like Microsoft, Apple, or the One True Church with a franchise to the Golden Rule.......Rules All......and sweeps in the winnings off the table.

CityBridge looks like a consortium based on the old Robber Barons business model that has recognized that some degree of division and cooperation is more beneficial than cutthroat competition.  Maybe more of Mafia model being NYC.  Graft was an operating feature, not a bug.

Look at the beautiful new New York here:  http://screenmediadaily.com/bridging-the-digital-divide-with-street-smart-innovation/  Perhaps it should be designed in the retro 30's style.  The new 30's style?
"The LinkNYC network will provide a range of other services, including free phone calls to any where in the United States, a touchscreen tablet interface to access City services, wayfinding, and 911 and 311 calls. It will also serve as free mobile device charging stations."

Touchscreen?  Can a touchscreen capture a fingerprint anywhere on the screen like an iPhone can capture it on a single button?  Every user then gains access via their fingerprint?  Retina scan?

The big lash-up is a Public/Private endeavor!  I can hear the money sloshing in the trough!  Win/Win.  Win for those in Public employment (under the table) and those in Private Employment (over the table payoff).  Public gets the free scraps and thinks it is winning all the benefit.

Holy Cow! (Batman)

Cash Cow!......Forget it Jake.....its NYC.

"Intersection" What kind of player is this?  http://screenmediadaily.com/titan-and-control-group-complete-merger-and-launch-intersection/   "Intersection Brings Scalable Civic Innovation, Technology and Advertising to Cities"  I really like this euphemism: 
"Scalable Civic Innovation" !!!!  Applications without limit that can run on the Operating System!  Why didn't Apple do this!  It is their business model!

This octopus is sprouting arms faster than I can follow.   To get to the heart of this thing I must stay on track and follow up the forks in the road later rather than taking them now.  The heart of the thing is what entity is in control of the Operating System on which all the application programs are going to run to the benefit of the apps developers.....and greater benefit to the System Owner.  Just like the Banking System.  Hey, did I just discover another business model associated strongly with NYC?

Titan and Control Group. 

I knew it!!  Yes, I did but have not said it.  Clue:  The Giant Squid!!!

It is Google!

http://www.businessinsider.com/google-sidewalk-labs-acquires-titan-outdoor-and-control-group-2015-6

Tron!  I have found the core!  I have identified the Master Control Program!

Its Sunday.  I was going to write about this:

"The God Model of the Debt Based Monetary and Financial System vs The Atheist Model of the Debt Free Based Monetary and Financial System"

There is a big twist:  The God Model is the Evil.  The Atheist (Devil Model) is Good.

God gives with a mandatory payback with interest during the time of the loan.  (Don't know what She does with it but loves all that praise and glory.

It was going to be a long good one but I'll get to it on another Sunday.

New business model applicable too to Kiosk wifi taken from this link: credit to Jim http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/08/links-81416.html#comment-2653812
"The evolution of the high tech industry towards a new type of extractive accumulation coincides nicely with the extractive indifference of Wall Street Finance.
As Zuboff has noted in her recent articles on Surveillance Capitalism, the users of anything digital are neither buyers or seller but increasingly the raw material for a new type of manufacturing process which extracts profits from surveillance (the behavioral data of its customers). This new manufacturing process then converts this behavioral data into prediction products and sells it to any actor with an interest in monetizing probablistic information about our behavior.
This new process of extraction is becoming a reality and nicely merges the theoretical ideas of Zuboff and Hudson."

Jim goes on to say so much more in his post comment at Naked Capitalism.  Excellent thought there on a different but related topic.

Creating and owning the  Operating System is the key to the kingdom.  Everything else is Application Program.  http://www.businessinsider.com/google-building-new-operating-system-fuchsia-not-based-on-android-linux-kernel-2016-8

The rule of things is that there are only 6 to 8 and certainly no more than 12 major categories of SuperClass entities into which all things are divided and one thing from which they all derive.  Each has in turn 6 to 8 ChildClasses and so on.  All entities at any level are relational to all other entities and ultimately the one Single Entity from which they all derive.  That entity is, of course, a PlaceHolder but nevertheless must be figuratively there to complete the relational pyramid.  That is its sole purpose for being and sole function.

That PlaceHolder "does" nothing but complete the relational circle.  It is nothing.  It is only a SingularThing with no higher order relationship.  It only relates to itself and its only known implementing action is a recursive relationship to Itself.  It is the ultimate conceptual TopDog chasing its tail.  

What is "It"?  

Anything we want it to be.  It does not matter what the conceptual identity of the PlaceHolder is.  It might be more of and eternal catalyst than anything thing else.  Just the ultimate "Given".  Attempting any detailing of the concept beyond that is just spinning your Mobius Strip wheels on the circle of eternity.  

Put it in gear by engaging with a SomeThingEntity below the TopDogPlaceholder that only knows OneTrick to implement the one relationship to AnyOtherThing and that OnlyOtherThing is itself.

Singularity.  

Wander into eternity chasing that or engage with ChildObjects of TopDog and go somewhere.  Those ChildObjects are the 6-8 Operating systems of our real world to which belongs.  Each is a matter of point of view but that is what organizes it all and gives the model structure for our conceptual world and the means to make decisions.

Money is a conceptual social decision making tool OperatingSystem.

Maybe Everything is just Information.  Like everything is just WaveTheory.  

Own the InformationOperatingSystem and own everything it does in terms of Applications.

Good thing that Google business model is do no Evil.  That was Lucifer's too until that entity placed the crown of TopDog upon its head implementing a SupremeRecursiveRelationship.

Ha!  A higher order Entity put an eternal end to that.  There is no binary at the top.  Lucifer thought it was the BringerOfDawn, the MorningStar.  

Biblical and Mythological stories have much to tell us.  They are stories we tell about ourselves.










Saturday, August 13, 2016

Money and Finance -- Operating System and Application Programs

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/08/how-the-fed-promoted-financial-dominance-and-shadow-banking-by-promoting-repo.html

Posting the link at the start is my short hand, quick to the point way of kicking off what I want to say about it.  The link says what it is all about without having to restate it in some written terms or interpretation.  Far better than simply linking a token word or phrase to the background link itself.  I like that links are now self explanatory and do this rather than being some jumble of unrelated characters representing a link that have no functional meaning other that "click on this thing in blue to see what it is referring to in the World Wide Web. 

A self explanatory link gets to the point!   Gets there so much quicker than I do after embarking on saying something about it or providing my own lengthy introduction.

Just Sayin.

Everything said about money and finance is said in form of code language.  Natural language is code language.  Code standing for conceptual things and there relationships.  Math is code language.  Things are numbers.  Actions are operators.  Put them together and I guess the result would be an expression.  Something that means something as a function of the relationship of a thing and what two thing related to each other by an action "do" as a result.  Music is a code language.  Relational Rules of the Music Operating System are the framework for the creation of Application Programs that do something we can sing along to. 

The Natural Physical World we live in is a coded system of Natural Law Operating System and its Application Programs.  All written in code that we seek to abstract to a language we can understand and use to create our own applications programs that gives us things like cars and candy bars.

Money and Finance.  Extremely abstract conceptual system!  Abstracted directly to expression using Natural Language Code for high level abstraction specification written in English for us that rule the system, translated to other languages with loss in translation being the result much to the benefit of the creators of money and finance.  In a top down breakdown of the system structure it jumps from "Money is Debt" to represent the "Thing" and "Lending" as the action that implements the relationship of the basic two fundamental entity object things the entire system is built on: 

One Big Entity Thing:  The entity that has it (created it from nothing and called it some "thing" possessing its own attributes, methods and messages to interact with other entity things in the system.

The Other Big Entity Thing:  The entity that does not have what the first big entity thing created out of nothing has and sets the rules for the Other Big Entity Thing to get and use to the ongoing benefit of the First Big Entity as well as its own benefit is some form of risk/reward terms.

The next lower level of top down breakdown of the Money and Finance System is intended to lose any normal person in a maze if they attempt to understand the what it is all about and what it does.  That next lower level is code expressed in Natural Language.  English for us.  The same language Shakespeare used to tell us complicated stories.  He, however used words we understood, at least words understood at the time he used them but translated to expression we understand today. 

The link uses a Natural Language code presentation with code words that a normal person would not understand.  What is a repo?  That is when a tow truck tows away a car that is not paid for.  No, it is shorthand code for http://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/repurchaseagreement.asp Repurchase agreement.  What is that?  Buying back your car after it has been towed away to an impound lot?

If you can't speak the language you can't understand what it says.  In that application language becomes weaponized to use against an adversary for the benefit of the entity that created the language operating system and its application programs.  An "interpreter" is needed.   The interpreter "helps" to understand it.  The interpreter protects its position by never allowing the language to be learned by the user!

The link uses natural language code words applicable to some lower level conceptual structure of the Money and Finance System that I do not understand.  I can't relate them to higher or lower level related concepts in terms of "this concept is a component part of this higher level thing" or 'this concept is a collection of these lower level related concepts".  Out of all this up and down relationship of things and their inter "actions" make a system of Money and Finance.  I can't see or understand what the link is attempting to explain.

 I do get some rough idea of what it might be explaining.

I want to know the Operating System of Money and Finance!  Not some hocus pocus commentary on how the game is played on the field that I can't even see!

If I got a Phd in Economics I might understand it?  That would be entering the seminary to become ordained a Catholic priest.  Blessed by God as and instrument of his corner of the market on exclusive rights to the One True Way Religion on earth based on entry to the beyond.

Economics sucks.  It is all about how the game is played.  It is what Money does.  What Money does is Finance.  Finance in the Natural Language System of expression is a verb.  Money is the noun.  Presenting an explanation of a system in terms of what it does is like explaining the game of baseball by listening to a radio broadcaster talk about the play of the game.  The action on the field. 

I never understood basketball.  It is extremely hard to comprehend the rules of the game, the operating system

Friday, August 12, 2016

William J Astore: Why Do Military Professionals Remain Silent?

Astore is channeling me.  Or me him.  We are on the same page either way.  A guy that I would stand with and behind as much as I stand by my own convictions.  Rare to find those that I would trust and stand with to the very end without doubt.  Again I express my gratitude to another guy I stand with:  Tom Englehardt at TomDispatch.com.  Like Astore we share the same Catholic school background and view of what is morally right and wrong perhaps long after abandoning the teachers of the beliefs but not the essence of what was taught.

What Astore says about the military, every single point pinned to ducks in a row is exactly how I feel as well.  My career was earlier and one step short of O6 by my own choice.  While he was working on Star Wars at the end of the Cold War I said my war was over with the end of Cold War.  It had started at my first assignment: Vietnam.  I wasn't going to study war no more.  As far as I was concerned it was over and my victory march through the Arc of Triumph on a bike in 1986 out the main gate of Defense Depot, Ogden headed for Anchorage via the long hard way.  Been that way ever since with 8 Ironman races behind me, world travel and dedication to dearly departed Jeanette for 20 years of which I am more proud of than a equal period of no less dedication to my country.    It is still the challenge of fighting the good fight of real life long after leaving a church and state institution that taught the basics of fighting it for a cause but did not as an institution live by its teachings.  I have since chose more symbolic challenges that I create for myself.  Some are truly important windmills to joust with others are only games that I know I can win by applying the same dedication devoted to the real ones. 

Astore is also fighting the good fight but in a much more important arena.  I get my jabs in when and where I can but I admire not only his strikes at the system but his skill and honesty in delivering them.  He was and still is a leader that inspires me to do more.  Fortunately I knew many like him during me career.

I could only elaborate on everything he says at the link with sea stories of my own from the past and views from the present. 

This blog entry is simply a salute to him purely out of respect for the honesty and dedication of his character far beyond the tradition of a salute out of respect for the rank if we were both again on active duty.  He said some friends still call him Colonel.  I would simply say "Sir" to him and I don't say that to anyone but the few now days.

Well Done, Sir!  Something that in the navy is not traditionally correct from a junior to a senior, at least I believed that.  More the prerogative of senior to compliment or respond to the actions of a junior.  Still stuck in the tradition but not so much when it is necessary to violate it.  Courage atrophies when not used often.  Courage is an attribute of the military.  We might be strong in arms but the leadership that directs their use is atrophying.

Thursday, August 11, 2016

Pentagon Money Pit

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/08/11/pentagon-money-pit/

It is complicated.  Things are not accounted for.  In order to bring accounts into balance numerical adjustments are made called voucher entries to make the math come out right.  The vouchers are numbers with no explanation to the things they relate to.

That is counting not accounting!

It is all called financial.  That includes real money as well as the things money bought.  Accounting for money itself is one thing.  A well controlled thing.  Accounting for the value of things after they have been bought is another matter.  That connects the physical existence of a bought thing to the mirror image financial representation of that thing as a value of the thing on a financial record.  Either asset or liability.  The representation on the financial record must match the real world existence of the thing.  Then it is accounted for!

It should not be so complex.  Complexity however hides sloppy management and pure ignorance.  That is a business model when accounting is the lowest priority.  War fighting is highest.  The whole intent of the revision of the military financial system was to support the war fighter.  In war, accounting be damned, just get the goods to the war front.  That is is the way it was in Vietnam.  That is the way it is today.  Focus on the operational mission comes first.  Taking care of logistic accountability is an exercise of neglect or cover up.  How can a war be fought when effort is spent on bean counting.  Take care of it after the war is over by writing it all off with a memo.  Trouble is war is never over.

I made Loss by Inventory adjustments when things were not located.  I made Gain by Inventory adjustments when they were found.  Little effort was expended in actually finding things.  Things were put back on the accounting records when someone was told to go out to the record item location and verify the thing was there or do research to find it.  No allowance to provide for the employee expense of finding things that should have been found in the first place if the system was working.  Nobody wants to say that it is not working and they are loosing things they can't find.  You mean you can't do the job you are responsible for?

What a mess.  Audits uncover it.  Audits might as well just change the date on the last audit report and recommendations that were supposed to be corrected.  Same old report over and over.

Anything worth accounting for should have a discrete identity in an block chain management system.  Money, personnel or material.

Thursday, July 28, 2016

Free Trade Agreement Massacre and Hillary Clinton

This link dated 2014
http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/foreign-policy/208892-perus-bagua-massacre-haunts-the-tpp

"Five years ago (meaning 2009) last week, Peruvian police opened fire on indigenous people protesting the implementation of U.S.-Peru Free Trade Agreement (FTA) terms providing new access to exploit their Amazonian lands for oil, gas and logging..............The protestors were demanding revocation of decrees enacted to conform Peruvian law to FTA requirements.............The FTA’s foreign investor privileges also allowed a U.S. firm to pressure Peru’s government to reopen a smelter that had severely lead-poisoned hundreds of children in La Oroya, Peru — a story revealed in a Bloomberg exposé.................The Baguazo, as Peruvians call the 2009 massacre, was caused in part by Peruvian President Alan Garcia. His decrees implementing the FTA violated the rights of indigenous people established both under the Peruvian Constitution and treaties Peru had signed guaranteeing prior informed consent by indigenous communities on projects involving their land........Thanks to WikiLeaks, we can now see that the U.S. government was urging Garcia on.......Four days before the killings, a State Department cable addressed the growing indigenous protests, stating, “Should Congress and President Garcia give in to the pressure, there would be implications for the recently implemented Peru-US Free Trade Agreement........What has become known as the “Amazon’s Tiananmen” brought the realities of the U.S.-Peru FTA into sharp relief. Rather than being a new trade agreement model, as it was sold, at the FTA’s heart were the same extreme investor rights that animated the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)."

Read the entire link.  Good example not only of things to come but the hidden truth of past deeds revealed by Wikileaks.  Trump may be guilty of "Espionage" by asking Putin to reveal Hillary's emails, if he has them, I would bet he does, but revelation of the truth of what our people in government are doing is a good thing.  If the end justifies the means of asking an enemy to reveal the truth of what is being done by the politicians and agencies of our own countries then let it be done.   Those same people and agencies may take the position that we don't really want to know how the sausage is made and for whom and therefore keep it secret.  We have a right to know what our government is doing.  Does that only apply to what the government does domestically?  What our government does internationally affects us in a most serious manner domestically!  Does he have to go to Putin to get the truth?  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/harry-reid-trump-fake-briefings_us_57991916e4b01180b5317f6e?section=  Trump is despicable and repugnant but this situation is bizarre.

It is a weird situation where Trump asks Putin to cyber attack to discover the truth of Hillary's emails on her private server.  What if he had asked the NSA instead?  Would that be treason?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-russia-cyberattacks_us_5799338ee4b02d5d5ed43690
"he called for state-sponsored Russian hackers to conduct cyber espionage on the United States for his electoral benefit."

More on the massacre from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Peruvian_political_crisis a wealth of linking info at the end.

http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Documentary-About-Perus-Bagua-Massacre-Wins-Award-in-Madrid-20160507-0035.html:  "Years later, thanks to WikiLeaks, it was shown that Washington shares responsibility for the bloodshed as a U.S. State Department cable warned Garcia that "there would be implications for the recently implemented Peru-US Free Trade Agreement” if the protests aren't dealt with. Another cable actually blames the violence on the Indigenous communities."  “At the root of this crisis are social movement leaders seeking to make political hay by manipulating underlying grievances — mostly entrenched poverty and encroachment on traditional lifestyles by the modern world,” a leaked cable read.

Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State 2009-2013.  On January 21, 2009, Clinton was confirmed in the full Senate by a vote of 94–2.  The massacre was June, 2009.

http://tradejustice.net/?page=HillaryTradeJustice Activists Expose Hillary Clinton's Complicity in Bagua Massacre, Support for TPP and Other Job-Killing Trade Deals At Book Tour Kickoff.

From the link:
Read Hillary Clinton's article in Foreign Affairs on the Asian-Pacific Pivot,the Korea-US FTA, and the TPP.
Hillary Clinton Touts Korea, Panama, Colombia, FTAs, TPP at Speech to Council on Foreign Relations on Last Day in Office as Secretary of State

This link of April 2016: https://news.vice.com/article/a-right-wing-peruvian-president-will-bring-more-conflicts-over-mines  Hillary evidently paved the way as Secretary of State.  As President I believe most certainly that she will support and pass TPP with some cosmetic changes claimed to be major changes that makes TPP a good thing for all of us.

Mark my words.  Time will tell.

http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/07/27/did-longtime-ally-just-blow-major-hole-clintons-tpp-credibility
"But I'm in the same position where Senator [Tim] Kaine is," he continued, referring to Clinton's running mate, who came out against TPP in its current form after previously speaking positively about the deal without explicitly endorsing it. "We don't support it unless she says the changes that she wants are made. So unless the changes are made, she doesn't support it. President [Barack] Obama does want this, as you know."

Make some cosmetic changes and pass it!



Wednesday, July 27, 2016

Arms Merchant to the World

Two consecutive posts appearing under Imperial Watch at Naked Capitalism from my favorite websites:

http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/176169/

http://www.juancole.com/2016/07/worlds-surprised-violence.html

It is the macro level situation of the national level gun problem:  The solution is that everyone must have a gun.  The bigger the better and the more possessed the better.  Better armed for profit to the USA which has half the market.  Big business.

Why is there so much violence?

The amusing situation where every good guy has a gun and one bad guy starts shooting and not knowing where the shooting is coming from everybody pulls out their gun and starts shooting at everyone else that pulled out their gun.  Ripe for a false flag fuse.  Sarajevo?  WWI?

Tom and Juan.  I trust them and respect their observations.

Bitcoin Identity Data Base

http://news.softpedia.com/news/eu-plans-database-of-bitcoin-users-with-identities-and-wallet-addresses-506650.shtml

The link references Bitcoin but is exactly what is required for the digital currency system architecture I propose in this blog.  The absolutely known real identity of every single entity (person or corporate entity) that transacts with a digital currency.  That identity to be crypto protected but to be known when necessary in accordance with rules of law.  User identity to be linked to a universal single granular level entity identity used for all purposes to link persons and non-person entities to their real world associations.

Total Information.  Protected as necessary or required but known without exception subject to control.  By whom? That is the crux question of freedom and democracy.

The structure of the digital monetary system proposed in bits and pieces throughout this entire blog is a data base of digital dollars at the granular single dollar with a value of one maintained by the government or government chartered agency linked to the owner's account or accounts maintained by an authorized bank that in total equals the sum of all uniquely identified (IPv6) unit value digital dollars in the data base managed by the government or its agency. 

The uniquely identified debt free digital dollars with a unit value of one each in the government controlled data base never "move".   They are static records linked to changes in ownership as a function of monetary transactions between owning user accounts.

The total amount of all digital dollars in this national monetary system is equal to the revolving portion of the national debt.  That portion of the national debt that is our national saving that actually is in use for monetary transactions.  Maybe around 12 trillion dollars.  That is our gross national spending money.

Total Information:  At any given time it is exactly known what entity owns how much in their wallet account as well as which unique unit value dollars they are related to in the government digital dollar data base on an individual digital dollar level.  As transactions take place between accounts a block chain maintains the total history at both the unit dollar level in the government data base and owning accounts at the bank level. 

Every single uniquely identified digital dollar is traceable in block chain history from current owner entity to all past owner entity and between their related accounts and their block chain history at authorized system banks.  Associated transaction data such as time and location of transaction for example and perhaps specific item identification for items over a certain dollar value is also recorded.

Thursday, July 21, 2016

Watt4Bob Comments on a Suspicion

 http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/07/the-peak-oil-paradox-revisited.html#comment-2638286
Watt4Bob comments on one of his suspicions with some clearly probable ideas that Big USA oil is sucking up foreign supplies so that the USA will have the corner on the market when all is reduced elsewhere.  Seems too reasonable.  Like writing on the wall.  What are his other pet theories?  I hope to find comment on them in the future.  There is a general meme that companies do not plan any farther ahead than immediate future returns on investment.  Maybe not so for Big Oil or Big anything like Big Pharma or Big Finance.  For example:  Planning for Regulatory Capture by a primary business sector probably has a long time frame?  10 years?  20 Years?  Look how it has benefited Big Business in the USA as well as being on the threshold of benefiting Big Business globally with TPP.

A significant feature of TPP is regulatory capture called Investor State Dispute Settlement.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4893833/.  Note: This is a .gov site!

If Big Business entities have a long range plans then why has the Big Business Party taken such a drastic turn??????  The grass is greener on the other side of the fence?  Leave the old name behind to be claimed by "The People" as represented by Trump?  Talk about regulatory capture!  It is like pirates capturing an enemy ship and transferring operations to it because it is better armed  and faster!

Does that sound like a reasonable suspicion?

How about this for confirmation:  When the Chamber of Commerce jumps ship maybe there is a plan for the new ship to steer a new course in service of Big Privateers??????
https://theintercept.com/2016/07/20/chamber-of-commerce-may-prefer-hillary-clinton-to-donald-trump/

"The president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday signaled that the big-business community is still undecided between newly minted Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton. Chamber President Tom Donohue’s statements to Fox Business News on Wednesday morning represented an astonishing break from the organization’s nearly invariable support for Republican candidates...........Chief among Donohue’s complaints about Trump was his opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).........The Chamber spent tens of millions of dollars backing GOP candidates and attacking President Barack Obama during the 2010 and 2012 election cycles..........Donohue has also suggested that presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton would implement the TPP — a major chamber priority — despite her current position of opposing the agreement.........The Chamber has been almost invisible at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland."

How visible will the CofC be at the Democratic Convention.  Who will be in the smoke filled backroom?

The fix is in????????

What Would Watt4Bob say is the writing on the wall here?

How about this for a turn of position for the GOP?  Jumping to a new ship?
http://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-07-20/republicans-scary-plan-to-bring-back-glass-steagall

The more I look at the Jump Ship Strategy the more it looks like the Writing on the Wall is emerging from the Fog of War!
http://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-07-20/mcardle-and-ponnuru-on-the-republicans-of-tomorrow
"One other thing to think about is what effect this has on the Republican base. In the past few days I have heard from three different longtime Republicans, in three different states, that they had switched their party registration from "Republican" to "no party." That's a major psychological step, and it can be the first step on the road to voting for the other party."

I think "The Base" never really mattered anyhow.  It only mattered to get the vote and the base of choice was the collective "whoever" that could be pandered to in order to get the vote.  Haters are as good as Conservative Christians.

What is the real Base the GOP wants to appeal to?  Maybe the view from afar nails it:
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-germany-trump-idUSKCN0ZZ2YY.  The politics of fear.  Proven to work on the masses to serve agenda.  9/11 for example.

Big Oil says this????  A public statement revealing the secret plan to jump ship?
http://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Oil-Industry-CEO-Claims-Democrats-Have-Done-More-For-Oil.html
"That may sound strange considering the two parties’ diverse platforms when it comes to energy. The Republican party is touting deregulation and has said that it does not support the Paris Climate Accords. Going a few steps further, the party has plans to defund renewable energy, and open public lands and the outer continental shelf to drilling. Additionally, the party also wants to leave the regulation of fracking and drilling to the states, and increase oil and gas exports.
Conversely, the Democrats are calling for an 80 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and oppose the expansion of oil and gas production. They also want to phase down energy production on public lands. The party supports the inquiries into the alleged “climate change cover-up” by Exxon Mobil, and wants to see the nation using only renewable energy by the middle of the century."

WTF??  Watch what is being done not what is being said.  What is being said today by the Democrats is not what will be done to satisfy Big Oil in the future.  Bait to get the vote then switch to get the Special Interest contributions?

Big Finance jumping the GOP ship and bringing their "dual class voting" strategy with them to the Democratic Party?  Perhaps the dual class voting strategy works better when there is really only one party.  That is the step beyond "bi-partisanship"?  Dual class stock voting?  Already been there done that for the political vote system.  Big Money in one class, everyone else in the other. 
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/21/business/dealbook/ceos-meet-in-secret-over-sorry-state-of-public-companies.html?_r=1
Update on this:  NYT pulled it!!!!  It was secret strategy??!!
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/07/links-72116.html#comment-2638742

Maybe it all makes simple sense?

Why should Big Special Interests Sectors pay off contributions to both parties to hedge their bets on one party.  Why not set it up to just pay one political party by completely abolishing the possibility of the other party to elect a president?  However, what about all the other elected officials of the Republican party in the Legislative Branch?  What is the plan for them?  Do they become more "bi-partisan" to the Big Business agenda of the Democratic headed by Hillary?

The fix is in?

TPP will tell...........

It can be a win-win for Hillary.  She can cave on the ISDS and claim the bi-partisan support that Obama never had to pass TPP.  As long as she caves with the secret provision of weasel words or plan to have ISDS become some de-facto after the fact accomplishment.  Having the cake and eating it too.  That is what being the one and only party in a two party political system is all about.

When Michael Hudson says there has been a roll reversal in the Republican Party and Democratic Party politics from a party of Big Business vs a party of the People then I have to believe it is true!
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/07/michael-hudson-2016-is-wall-street-and-the-corporate-sector-clinton-vs-the-populists-trump.html

Watt4Bob does not have suspicions.... ....he has a crystal ball.  Michael Hudson too.

Hudson says:

"And when he wrote this, quote, Trump is decimating the things Republicans stood for: NATO, entitlement reform, in other words winding back Social Security, and support of the corporatist Trans-Pacific Partnership. So it’s almost hilarious to see what happens. And Trump also has reversed the traditional Republican fiscal responsibility austerity policy, that not a word about balanced budgets anymore. And he said he was going to run at policy to employ American labor and put it back to work on infrastructure. Again, he’s made a left runaround Hillary. He says he wants to reinstate Glass-Steagall, whereas the Clintons were the people that got rid of it.............So this is really the class war. And it’s the class war of Wall Street and the corporate sector of the Democratic side against Trump on the populist side."

OMG: Trump favors all the same things I do!!!!  But it is only in what he says.

Bill Moyers, who is my hero says: http://billmoyers.com/story/lopsided-political-dialogue-working-class/
"Donald Trump has hitched his presidential wagon to the pain of the white working class, though far more rhetorically than substantively................But the sad reality is that his campaign represents nothing more than yet another cynical political ploy to tap the racial anxiety and economic despair felt by white working-class men. It is a salve to soothe with no real medicine for healing the underlying wound................For despite the platform language and Hillary Clinton’s stated positions, the Democratic Party hasn’t been talking to the working class. The words “working class” seem all but erased from the Democratic lexicon — "

The Koch brothers support Clinton?  http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-07-23/koch-brothers-now-supporting-often-confused-hillary-clinton

Both political parties are saying one thing but will do another.  Saying anything to get the vote.

Watt4Bob does indeed see the writing on the wall and reads it clearly:
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/07/study-top-bank-execs-saw-the-crisis-coming-and-sold-their-companys-shares.html#comment-2640089 

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/08/the-economic-drivers-of-political-disruption-in-advanced-economies.html#comment-2648931





Sunday, July 17, 2016

Science and Engineering and a Load of Conflated Crap

Science defined by Wikipedia.

Engineering defined by Wikipedia.

Relationship of Science to Engineering described by Wikipedia.

This is a load of confused thinking conflating Science and
Engineering: http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/2016/07/scientific-education-as-cause-of.html

My perception of Science and Engineering:

Science discovers objects, their attributes, methods, messages and relationships. 

Engineering applies what Science discovers.

Engineering is the verb in the Subject/Verb/Object relationship that implements the relationship between Science and the result of applying Engineering to create a receiving Object result.

Science discovers the natural world Operating System.

Engineering creates Application Programs utilizing the Operating System to produce conceptual conceptual structure designs for builders to implement in the construction of real and conceptual objects for use.

It is a high level abstract model that to me is a simple fundamental "truth" in the Object Oriented way I look at things.  My belief.  Works for me.

I am amazed when I look at how others structure the objects of Science and Engineering to come up with so much confusion and ambiguity.  The Problem Domain of our world is Confusion and Ambiguity.

Science Education as a Cause of Political Stupidity?  That is an absolutely ignorant statement.  The problem is not Science Education nor Engineering.  It is the application of what is created by geniuses to create things to be run by idiots.




Saturday, July 16, 2016

Hillary, Federal Spending

This is a place holder for future comment.......parsing ambiguity of the content might be more accurate.  What is the meaning of what Hillary says?  Why, it can mean anything you want it to mean!  Yes, but what is she saying with the direct intentional intention, (just to emphasize planned intent!) of creating wiggle room in a wide degree of ambiguity what become a past statement that after the fact can be interpreted to mean exactly what she meant it to mean?

At first reading it looks to me like the "revenue stream" she talks about means coming from private enterprise.  Big Private Enterprise.  Qui Bono? Maybe on the other hand she means something in the nature of the common welfare of benefit to to the public, we the people?

http://genius.it/10091202/www.vox.com/a/hillary-clinton-interview

Hillary Clinton:
"I have put forth ways of paying for all the investments that I make, because we do have the entitlement issues out there that we can’t ignore. But we are failing to make investments that will make us richer and stronger in the future. And that’s where I think our biggest gap is.
I think it’s important that we look for ways to pay for our investments. But I think there can be short-term decisions about the kind of federal dollars that are available now, with a revenue stream to pay them back in the future that would bridge the gap if we can’t do everything we need to do to really give the economy and job creation the kind of boost that it needs.
But I’m not going to commit myself to that because I would like first to figure out what we’re going to do, because I think we’ve had a period where the gains have gone to the wealthy."

Thursday, July 14, 2016

The Protected Privacy Rights of a Computer? and Follow-Up Decision

Follow on to the prior link:

http://www.alternet.org/culture/sharing-streaming-service-passwords-federal-crime

"According to Vice’s Jason Koebler, the prosecution’s case relied on a clause in the U.S. Computer Fraud and Abuse Act that stated that made it a criminal act to “knowingly and with intent to defraud access a protected computer without authorization.”

Several things to comment on here!

What is a "protected computer"?  It could be the computer itself.  My mac is protected by my password.  I own a protected password entry computer hardware device.  Call it a thing on the Internet of Things IoT.  Like I am a thing object physical body human being on the internet of people.  I am protected by rights that cannot be infringed upon.  Some apply to my body others apply to my being, the part of me that is software in my brain as a separate distinct unique entity attribute of Me.

I may say that a any violation of my Civil Rights is a violation of me.  If it is a violation of my right to life in the strict definition of "living breathing" it is a violation of my physical body.  Violation of my right to Free Speech would be a violation of my consciousness.... What gets violated in this situation.  An expression made by my body in some fashion like speaking, and therefore my body or an expression of my mind.

Mind and Body.  Substance and spirit.  A binary one to one exclusive relationship of a human being.  By definition I think that it would be generally agreed that all living breathing human beings have a mind spirit as long as they are living breathing unless by definition they are brain dead.  Pre-natal is another category but that is another matter.

What exactly is the entity relationship between hardware and software.  Computer and Operating system.  Body and mind.  As Artificial Intelligence emerges it is becoming a more interesting question.  It looks like the model for Intelligence has been established already by Natural Intelligence.  Broader definitions of Intelligence are being made that say all things have a natural intelligence.  All matter has its associated link to information content that enables it to be an object with attributes, methods and means of communicating messages to other objects.

Human Rights are exclusively human.  Duh.  Animal Rights, Environmental Rights.  The "Rights of things are an evolving definition challenging the human centric notion of all rights revolve around us.  Some say God said so when he told us to go forth, multiply and dominate the earth.  Earth was once the center of the universe.  Now it is the USA.  We just tend to perceive things in a natural discriminating way...

Defraud? http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/defraud:
"
To make a Misrepresentation of an existing material fact, knowing it to be false or making it recklessly without regard to whether it is true or false, intending for someone to rely on the misrepresentation and under circumstances in which such person does rely on it to his or her damage. To practice Fraud; to cheat or trick. To deprive a person of property or any interest, estate, or right by fraud, deceit, or artifice.
Intent to defraud means an intention to deceive another person, and to induce such other person, in reliance upon such deception, to assume, create, transfer, alter, or terminate a right, obligation, or power with reference to property."

Fraud is the noun.  Defraud is a verb.  Fraud as the subject of a phrase is perpetrated (defraud) upon an object of the subject (fraud) "Someone".  Someone being anyone who we define as a "Person" because they have certain ascribed attribute entities of Person.

A company is a Person my friend.

Is a computer a Person?  It owns conceptual things.  Those conceptual things that have attributes of Ownership Rights.  

or:

Is the conceptual thing called Software on the physical device called Computer the essence of the entity we have given the name Computer that is technically the physical device but commonly used to mean not what the physical device is or does  but what the Software is or does for us.  Analogous to calling a thing and Internet when we really mean what is actually the World Wide Web.  The information content residing on a computer.

One way of looking at it is that computers have no rights.  It is the software residing on computers that have rights.  "Person" entities own rights to the software.  The privacy protection and authorizations associated with a "Key" to a computer is actually a key to the software content on a hardware device.  A "Computer" is a hardware device! https://www.google.com/?client=seamonkey-a#q=Computer+definiton

More precisely....computing loves precision...Protected Privacy Rights relate in a Object Oriented conceptual structure to the Conceptual Software Entity residing on and in relationship to a Physical Hardware Device Entity.

I think that the accurate frame of reference for this this Problem Domain of Protected Privacy Rights is the Conceptual Software existing on the Hardware Device we commonly call a Computer.  

As an example perhaps:  Cars are becoming endowed with Artificial Intelligence.  A conceptual entity with attributes of Natural Intelligence.  Ownership and access to a car is one thing but ownership rights and access to the artificial intelligence software that operates the car is distinct from rights to ownership of the car itself.  That situation is a matter that is evolving toward resolution resolved by the legal system. 

The principal Object Problem Domain to solve the problem is in the frame of Software, not Hardware.  Addressing the problem domain technically in terms of  "Protected Privacy Rights of a Computer" when "Software" is the meaning confuses the issue.

This MIT review conflates the meaning of Computer (the hardware device) with Software.  It is a technical matter but fortunately we know what the review means when it uses the term Computer loosely to mean Software.  It is a Software war.  We are so used to Hardware war that it will be a long time before we see it as a battle of minds rather than a battle of bodies.

The essence of the Information Age is that we have created the ability to detach the physical binding of conceptual things from their physical representation and manage them better in a conceptual domain free from their binding to a related physical domain.  The general way we think and express things in the Information Age continues to be a manner of associating the conceptual essence of a thing to its physical expression relationship even when we are, to be precise talking about the Conceptual nature detached from but directly associated with its physical expression.  

Apple and oranges are both fruits.  Physical and Conceptual are both Entity Objects.  Talking about Apples when we mean Oranges is the definition of confusion by conflation.   The Information Age requires us to be more precise yet for example we continue to identify what is really the World Wide Web (Conceptual Stuff) using the term Internet (Hardware stuff).  Fortunately most of us also recognize the difference between our cell phones and its software operating system and the software apps that run on that operating system.

Detachment of the tight Physical binding to its Conceptual attributes is the essence of the Information Age?  Yes, indeed.  That is what we will do with driverless cars.  The physical binding connection of a human to a car is detached and a conceptual essence of the relationship is therefore freed to undertaken by a non human conceptual entity software abstract of human intelligence called Artificial Intelligence implemented in software to drive the car.  What happens to the human driver?  It goes to the back seat.  Or even farther removed to not being in the vehicle at all when the intent is not to convey a physical human but to convey things.

The follow up decsion:
 https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/07/ninth-circuit-panel-backs-away-dangerous-password-sharing-decision-creates-even

Good thing.  This deserves an better examination of the situation at the higher macro Object Oriented level of Information Organization rights of ownership.

Wednesday, July 13, 2016

Human Biometric ID and Artificial Intelligence Machine ID

Based on thoughts in the prior blog entry regarding Biometric ID of uniquely identified human beings with the attribute of Natural Intelligence and entities having Artificial Intelligence it helps to look at this relationship:  Biometric ID (many types but all applicable to a living or dead human being entity)  is applicable at the unique granular to single Human Being.  In the Artificial Intelligence domain what is the analog of Biometric ID?

The Internet of Things is the physical entity that holds data, information, knowledge and creation of new knowledge.  The IoT at the granular object level is an IPV6 unique identifier.  Might that the the equal of a uniquely identifying Biometric Human ID.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2016/07/12/9th-circuit-its-a-federal-crime-to-visit-a-website-after-being-told-not-to-visit-it/

Look at it this way:  Driverless cars are driven by Artificial Intelligence robots that are currently the focus of popular attention.  Each car will be a uniquely identified entity in the IoT possessing its own Artificial Intelligence.  Note that it will be superior in performance to a Natural Intelligence Driver entity.  Back seat drivers too.  Artificial Intelligence is now smart enough to get that joke that involves a higher degree of literal amibuity!

Look at what the court is ruling.

Then look at it in the frame of how I am presenting my view of Biometric Human ID and IoT Machine Entity ID.  How closely are the two the same?  In what ways?  How are they different in the Object Oriented view of the relationship of entities, attributes, methods and messages?

This gives something to think about for subsequent blog exploration!

One possible relationship is that every IoT device with an IPV6 ID must have an exclusive link to a uniquely Biometric identified Human Being that interacts with it?  Then there is no doubt or ambiguity as to who is interacting with the IoT device.  Artificial Intelligence eschews ambiguity.

A day later:

Thinking about all of the preceding thoughts trying to distill it:  Perhaps by a comparative list of attributes of two SuperClass Objects:

1.  Human Beings (Aggregate Class: All Human Beings)  Unique instance Child of the Class: single Human Being.

2  Internet.  (Aggregate Class:  All Things on the Internet of Things)  Unique instance Child of the Class: single Device.

Create a matrix of these two SuperClassObjects by applying two aspects to each of them:

1.  Physical Attributes (Analogous to Body)

2.  Conceptual Attributes (Analogous to Mind)

Then really complicate the view of the Problem Domain by adding two more things to the 4 part matrix view:

1.  Operating System

2.  Application Programs

I would expect the result to be a great amount of parallelism.  1 to 1 relationships.  Things that look the same are the same?

If the Point of Entry view to the Problem Domain is from the Human Centric standpoint then the picture is one of Machines becoming more like Humans.

If the Point of Entry to the Problem Domain is from the Machine Centric standpoint then the picture is one of Humans becoming more like Machines (that Humans create by investing/projecting both their Physical and Conceptual Class Attributes, Methods and Messages into a Machine Analog.

At some point of investing/projecting Human SuperClass Object Structure into Machine SuperClass Object Structure there is emergence of Intelligence Transfer.

At this point of Intelligance Transfer at the unique instance of the SuperClass:Human Being called "Me" (or you depending on view) there is a Mini-Me doppleganger mirror of Me on the Machine side.  For example: the mirror machine image of me that will drive my car.

Another Point of Entry View to the Problem Domain:

Call  HumanBeing (in aggregate SuperClass or unique InstanceofClass):  "Feet"  or "Foot".
Make: HumanBeings = Feet (SuperClassAggregate)  and Human Being = Foot (ClassInstance)

Call Internet (in aggregate SuperClass or unique InstanceofClass:  "Internet of Things" or "Device".
Make IoT = Feet and Device = Foot.

If the 16 part matrix of Human or Internet (Inclusive of all of its  ObjectOriented Physical/Logical and OperatingSystem/ApplicationProgram matrixes reduced to a higher conceptual ParentClass level of Foot and Shoe then...

Fit the Shoe to the Foot or the Foot to the Shoe and to which level and instances of the level does each approach to the Problem Domain apply?

And like the reductionism of hands on a baseball bat to make a binary choice:  Which one is the final hand on top?

If our collective intelligence with all its bugs and features is filtered through reason and logic processes (Artificial Intelligence) to exclude ambiguity then that product is the best model to guide a Plan?

What is "Artificial" about Artificial Intelligence except the predisposition to call it that because from the Human Centric approach to which we are likely predisposed to use?  It is our own intelligence run through filters that in the past was locked into physical representation implemented by pen to paper.

Our modern day paper upon which we write our logic and reason has been given the ability to "Speak" by us to us because we gave it voice.  Literally.  Endowed with our best logic and reason ability of our intelligence it can refine what it says to us and does for us as it gains the ability to independently implement conceptual relationships through both physical and conceptual means to serve us in our image and likeness?

Returning to the foot and shoe fitting problem:

I think we must design to fit ourselves into the requirements of the Artificial Intelligence Machine System shoe to the extent that we must all have our own established mandatory Human Biometric ID to interact with the Intelligent System we are creating.  Beyond that we fit the System Shoes to our own Feet.

That is about as far as the logic and reason of my intelligence takes me on this matter.






Biometric Identification

A couple of links today to add to my view and thoughts Biometric Identification (BI) that I have commented on many times in this blog.
http://www.theverge.com/2016/6/15/11946304/fbi-facial-recognition-system-data-collection-privacy
http://www.theverge.com/2016/7/12/12148044/fbi-iris-pilot-program-ngi-biometric-database-aclu-privacy-act

Capture it all.  Total Information.

Vacuuming up Biometric Information of all types while it is free and available and unrestricted.  Not only the government but any non-government entity as well.  The government has the biggest big data base but when there is a profit motive then private enterprise will probably consolidate its silos into a single data base service managed by a "business associate" matrix.  One that will grow to be so large that perhaps the government will simply outsource its maintenance of the data base to private industry.  Probably in response to privacy laws applicable to government Biometric Information.  That outsourcing model was established by outsourcing the maintenance of internet communications entities that maintain it as a matter of business practice.  No need to tap in to the system from secret rooms.  On the other hand what are the server/storage farms like the one in Utah going to store/manage and provide to clients?

All this ID information about the most granular entity, the single unique human being,  are attributes of that human being.  The entity itself, the unique human being, needs its own unique indentifier linked to the attributes its owns.  Just because that is the way information is manage.  Because information.  One master ID number per every single person.  Other countries are doing it.  India for example. 

Once every single human being is uniquely identified then behavior can be associated with that person. 

I have no doubt that there is a single unique Master Identifier Number already established by the government for every known person of government interest.  By definition that includes all citizens.  Because information.  What is unknown is what attributes and behaviors are associated with that Master ID?  How will it be used?  How will it be controlled?

I should submit a FOIA request to know what my Master ID number is.  Just want to know the number.  Perhaps I should be able to look at what attributes and behaviors are associated with my ID?  Like the credit card model. 

Who would I submit that request to?

Data is gathered to produce information.  Information is processed to produce knowledge.  Knowledge is the basis for intelligent structure and action by an entity.  Artificial Intelligence can increasingly form its own Knowledge structure and actions.  An Artificial Intelligence based entity/agency must exactly know the Identity of each and every Natural Intelligence Entity (uniquely identified human being).

What is my Master ID number?  The one to which all information about me is associated?

Perhaps I must submit my request to know my number to an Artificial Intelligent entity.  I will probably get a form reply by text addressed to one of my listed attributes like telephone number telling me I have no need to know.  All is lovingly taken care of by machines.

Used to be that only St. Peter had all that info and it only became known in a different place than the natural world.  Perhaps we should identify the Artificial Intelligence Entity maintaining all that info about me in the real world with a unique ID.........St. Peter?  Santa Clause?  The State?

In the Object Oriented social structure what entity is the one that will be the single Super Class Object from which all child object classes inherit its attributes.  A refinement of our Natural Intelligence called Artificial Intelligence or our Natural Intelligence from which Artificial Intelligence inherits our attributes as our child object?






Monday, July 11, 2016

Hillary is Guilty - Hubris and Nemisis

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/5-reasons-the-comey-hearing-was-the-worst-education_us_577ee999e4b05b4c02fbdcd5

The link is an excellent examination of the legal case as well as the relative alternative law and justice environment in which Comey presented it.  That relative environment being so far outside the established justice for all and equal treatment under the law of our national system.

Bonus points Seth Abramson for bringing in the national context of the polar opposite alternate law and justice system applicable to those that are less privileged.

I admire his professional analysis that honors his profession.  The unwritten law of honorable judgment is the Higher Standard of professional performance.  As a career navy officer I held myself responsible and accountable to perform to a higher standard.  My superiors expected of me, I expected it from my subordinates.  That situation never changed over the course of my career.  I choose not to advance beyond the minimum retirement age but many I know did.  They carried the tradition of a higher standard.  A few did not.  Those however were the notable exception and were judged by the informal standard and did not in most all cases advance.  The senior military officer level is in my opinion very different today.  Sadly.  Honor amongst them has eroded.  Courage atrophies when it is not used.

Abramson presented the legal frame for analysis.  There is another frame of reference and that is the security of our nation and its Constitution.  I emphasize here the United States Uniform Services Oath of Office.  "I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic".  There is a formal security system established to do that.  Wikipedia suffices to generally explain it.  It is the system in which Hillary Clinton was required to operate.

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Hillary is guilty of mis-handling Top Secret information.  Beyond Top Secret is Sensitive Compartmented Information.  (SCI).  I was cleared to that level during my career.  Hillary certainly functioned as Secretary of State with SCI information.   Serious stuff!  There is some reason to believe that SCI Special Access Program information was included in her email system.
It is public knowledge and only obviously true that there is a web of cover stories within SCI/SAP that explain to any given person within a compartment believes they are doing in support of compartment objectives.  The ultimate truth of what the actual objectives of the compartment are is held at the top level.  A level that Hillary operated at.  It is not simply extremely serious that she mishandled Top Secret information but most likely did so in a manner that may have divulged the true nature, intent and structure of an SCI/SAP compartmented structure that was only known to a very select few.
That is extremely serious!
I can only speculate on the number of SCI/SAP "cover stories" told to those in the compartment at various levels of "need to know" but as it gets closer to the top the real truth of the program structure and its intent must be known.  That is what has to be protected against all enemies, foreign and domestic.

It scares me to think what arbitrary "enemies" Clinton may have believed that the truth had to be protected from.  Enemies of what agenda.  Privileged agenda.  Class privileges and the downside of their application seem to be a vital concern of our nation today at the ends of the extremely few as well as the many.
To what extent does the intent of this nation executed by the top political/executive leadership of our nation serve us all or a privileged few that it is true intent and structure by official design is to be so securely protected to serve what may be the true ends of two opposed agenda????

I do not know exactly, we do not know.  It is by design.  "Trust me" ??  

I don't know the truth of what is being done at the top level to serve us or serve narrow sector agenda contrary to the general welfare.  I do know who I belief merits the trust and faith to know and protect whatever agenda is truly in our best interest as known by us and our system of determining with controls what is done by those that will serve us all and our constitution best.

Hillary Clinton does not deserve that trust and faith of Americans.  I do believe that she will do what she thinks best and knows how to keep that Top Secret which includes hiding it in plain sight with the help of her friends in the compartment.

A large part of secrecy is deception.

Hillary Clinton is guilty!

Of What?

Using her privileged status to further her own agenda, not ours.  A status that was near the top of the political/financial pyramid where there were no controlling laws, ethics or dominating social structure obligations to the general welfare to control the exercise of her ambitions and agenda.  If and when she takes the oath of office it will be a mockery, her presidency will end in tragedy she is so arrogant she will not see it coming.

Hubris

Nemisis

The U.S. Department of State is the United States federal executive department responsible for the international relations of the United States. 

It is there that Hillary's hubris and our national hubris met as one coalescing to focusing externally as Secretary of State.  A position where there are no rules.  The US is a super power to the world.  There has been a progressive shift to turn the external focus of international hubris to internal affairs.  It is the same few in the political/financial power structure that projected hubris externally as the agenda of the USA that will project internally as their agenda for the USA.

Who is to be Nemisis, the inescapable agent of someone's or something's downfall?

Hillary will be her own nemisis.  The cat that skins itself.  The agency of Nemisis will be speaking truth to power.  Ironic that the people will elect her. 


Hillary is good at compartmented cover stories to hide the real truth as well as take advantage of those involved in the operations that believe the cover story is the truth of what they are actually contributing to through their efforts.  They are being used and duped.
https://medium.com/@ASterling/sailing-on-the-river-denial-with-clinton-foundation-friends-d9cdfca4b247#.pfua96nih

Hillary is guilty.  The FBI not only failed in its mission to investigate but is complicate in her guilt.  One thing that is a common shared by both Hillary and the FBI as well as the Justice Department is Hubris.

Excellent analysis:
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/07/15/those-damn-emails-comeys-political-fix-unraveling/

Our shadow investigative and presecutorial agency is the media.  Counterpunch presents and excellent investigatory case.  Who will prosecute?  What will be the sentence of justice?

Smell Test: Its a fundamental investigatory tool.  The FBI and the DoJ fail the test.  Within their own system however, they pass by their own standards, design and intent.
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jul/16/justice-department-freedom-of-information-computer-system?CMP=share_btn_tw

Hillary's emails were probably hacked.  No evidence of course but very reasonable conclusion that there would be no evidence and the capability is generally known.
https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2016/07/14/was-hillary-clintons-email-hacked-the-case/ 

Hillary and Peak Hubris:  http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-07-26/peak-hubris