So I comment here at TDAXP

Shudder.

“You only need three years of 10% inflation to cut our debt to Communist China in half…”

That would also devalue my savings. Once again punishing those Americans who did right actions (lived beneath their means) while benefiting those who lived above their means. I am sure the BigBiz/BigGov elites (the new Vanguard) will come out okay.

I am in a funk right now about the direction America is going.

Spoilers to follow…

The final stage of the visitor’s plan was revealing themselves to us! [words of guy not crazy after-all from Episode 1 of V]

I was a fan of the original mini-series (not the later series) as a kid, and I have been looking forward to the new version.

It was worth the one-hour of my time. It didn’t drag and it got the action and story going quickly

In the new V, the Visitors are after something. Most people believe peace and hope and change has arrived to save the world (think of the Alien visitors as saviors from another planet) with a pretty face. Except…and that is where the fun comes from.

Some Alien conspiracy mongers are onto them (and the Visitors know it). It turns out they have been around for awhile – covertly/stealthily infiltrating and manipulating our organizations and institutions and turning the world upside down nudge by nudge (hey what does that sound like). It seems it is up to the conspracy mongers to figure out what is going on and to win the war that nobody else realizes earth is in with the Visitors.

It all sounds fun to me.

(from The People’s Cube h/t PoliticalWarfare.org)

I hope there is an version of this being made into Arabic/Farsi/Etc and being plastered to Mideast video sites.

Here is the Violent Femmes Version:

Here is the original:

Here is Gnals Barkley covering the Femmes:

I just read Jim Carroll died on 9/11/2009.

RIP punk poet – this is for you my brother:

I am really liking the new TV show Glee. The first episode blew me away.

The blog TV Squad had the idea to suggest 5 songs you’d like to see them cover. Well here are my choices (the first 5 that came to mind anyways):

- Rick Springfield’s Jesse’s Girl
- Bee Gee’s Lonely Days
- I will Survive (more Cake then Gloria Gaynor)
- Lily Allen’s Smile
- Bruce Cockburn’s Wondering Where the Lions Are

Apr 26, 2009 @ 12:05

I will return to the topic of CyberWar sometime in the near future.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber-warfare
http://www.sdrnews.com/index.php/the-news/685-cyberwar-skeptic

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/06/cyberwar.html
Cyberwar — Warfare in cyberspace. This includes warfare attacks against a nation’s military — forcing critical communications channels to fail, for example — and attacks against the civilian population.

Cyberterrorism — The use of cyberspace to commit terrorist acts. An example might be hacking into a computer system to cause a nuclear power plant to melt down, a dam to open, or two airplanes to collide. In a previous Crypto-Gram essay, I discussed how realistic the cyberterrorism threat is.

Cybercrime — Crime in cyberspace. This includes much of what we’ve already experienced: theft of intellectual property, extortion based on the threat of DDOS attacks, fraud based on identity theft, and so on.

Cybervandalism — The script kiddies who deface websites for fun are technically criminals, but I think of them more as vandals or hooligans. They’re like the kids who spray paint buses: in it more for the thrill than anything else.

http://www.undiplomatic.net/2008/07/16/cyber-war-or-cylon-war/
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/008381.html
http://blog.dustinlfritz.com/2009/03/test.html
http://www.punchkids.net/2007/06/06/essay-on-cyberwar/
http://staff.washington.edu/dittrich/cyberwarfare.html
http://neteffect.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/04/11/writing_the_scariest_article_about_cyberwarfare_in_10_easy_steps
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,513121,00.html?sPage=fnc/scitech/cybersecurity
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,506830,00.html?sPage=fnc/scitech/cybersecurity
http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/techbeat/archives/2009/02/fearing_cyber_k.html?chan=top+news_top+news+index+-+temp_news+%2B+analysis
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/military_law/4277463.html
http://taosecurity.blogspot.com/2008/11/response-to-marcus-ranum-hitb-cyberwar.html
http://taosecurity.blogspot.com/2008/11/response-to-marcus-ranum-hitb-cyberwar.html
http://nchovy.kr/uploads/3/305/KEYNOTE%202%20-%20Marcus%20Ranum%20-%20Cyberwar%20is%20Bullshit.pdf
http://taosecurity.blogspot.com/2007/09/china-cyberwar-or-not.html

http://www.armedforcesjournal.com/2008/05/3375884
http://128.100.171.10/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1711
http://www.dodbuzz.com/2009/04/29/flournoy-details-qdr-threats-principles/
http://128.100.171.10/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=2266&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
http://www.nationalacademies.org/morenews/20090429.html
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s111-773
http://commerce.senate.gov/public/_files/Cyberbillsummaryonepagerplusthreepagesummarypressrelease1Apr090.pdf
http://cdt.org/security/CYBERSEC4.pdf
http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s773/show

http://selil.com/?p=477
http://selil.com/?p=297
http://selil.com/?p=278
http://selil.com/?p=239
“Cyberspace is the terrain of technology mediated communication.”
http://selil.com/?p=177
http://selil.com/?p=172
http://selil.com/?p=659
http://selil.com/?p=595
http://selil.com/?p=555

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/28/205203

http://www.winnschwartau.com/downloads.html
http://www.winnschwartau.com/resources/ebr+BILL.pdf
http://www.winnschwartau.com/resources/CyberChrist+Meets+Lady+Luck+DC2.pdf
http://www.winnschwartau.com/resources/CHAP_031_Lying+to+Hackers+Deception.pdf
http://www.winnschwartau.com/resources/InfoSecArticle.pdf

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/28/us/28cyber.html?_r=1
http://www.pcworld.com/article/163533/fighter_jet_hack_far_from_first_government_breach.html
http://threatswatch.org/commentary/2009/03/legacy-futures-in-cyberspace/
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/04/cyber-criminals

http://www.hackersarepeopletoo.com/

http://www.cyberconflict.org/Research-agenda
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/04/cyberpanic-it-sells/

http://zenpundit.com/?p=3074
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/06/cyberwar.html

http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2009-04/hackers-china-syndrome

cyberwar at complexity leveragepoints sysperps

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/04/22/1903394.aspx
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/apr/16/internet-hacking-cyber-war-nato

http://nchovy.kr/uploads/3/305/KEYNOTE%202%20-%20Marcus%20Ranum%20-%20Cyberwar%20is%20Bullshit.pdf
http://conference.hitb.org/hitbsecconf2008kl/?page_id=65
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4654588/HITBSecConf2008_-_Malaysia_Videos___Day_1
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4654974/HITBSecConf2008_-_Malaysia_Videos___Day_2

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/04/cyberpanic-it-sells/
http://m.economist.com/h/leaders_13527677.php
http://www.honeyd.org/
http://128.100.171.10/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=2269&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
http://128.100.171.10/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=2270&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
http://128.100.171.10/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=2271&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

http://threatswatch.org/rapidrecon/2009/04/cyberspace-and-targeting/
http://ubiwar.com/2009/04/29/the-future-of-us-cyberattack/
http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/500
http://intelfusion.net/wordpress/?p=564
http://intelfusion.net/wordpress/?p=537

http://128.100.171.10/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=2297&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
http://128.100.171.10/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=2297&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20090506_4087.php
http://128.100.171.10/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=2298&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

http://selil.com/?p=685
http://committeeofpublicsafety.wordpress.com/2009/05/04/maritime-strategy-and-cyberwar/
http://selil.com/?p=691
http://selil.com/?p=697

http://selil.com/?p=709
http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2009/05/19/the-future-of-warfare-and-of-humanity.html

http://selil.com/?p=705

http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/08/2219258

http://blog.loglogic.com/2009/05/get_ready_new_cybersecurity_standard_for_american_businesses.php

http://www.infowars.com/nrc-study-calls-for-covert-cyberattack-against-non-state-enemies/

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1098961-1,00.html
http://www.cringely.com/2009/06/collateral-damage/
http://twitter.com/cyberwar/status/2116982128
http://twitter.com/cyberwar/status/2117575381

Dec 31, 2008 @ 15:53

I should still write this up more fully, if I have time to get into it. The revelation was pretty shocking and way under-reported.

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http://amicablecollisions.blogspot.com/2008/12/all-fbis-men.html

http://committeeofpublicsafety.wordpress.com/2008/12/23/deep-throats-coup-detat/

http://committeeofpublicsafety.wordpress.com/2008/12/25/the-deep-throat-dilemma/

http://purpleslog.wordpress.com/2008/12/16/the-joint-chiefs-of-staff-using-the-stenographer-as-their-agent-actively-spied-on-the-civilian-command-during-the-vietnam-war/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Throat_(Watergate)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Mark_Felt

Dec 16, 2008 @ 8:35

This was just going to an energy links roundup.

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Wireless Power Transmission test have been successful. Yeah for Tesla!

Suck it Al Gore: “Greenhouse Gas Comes from Solar Panels“

“Bjorn Lomborg Says Cool It!: Getting our priorities right on climate change and the world’s top problems“

West Allis (Milwaukee news): “Mini wind turbine proposal blows into council chambers”

“Another potential big deal is the thorium breeder reactor.”

Dec 24, 2008 @ 16:29

I should come back to gathering these.

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Dump Sox

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20081222/1647513199.shtml

Tort Refrom

IP reform

Radical transparency
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20081113/0321092822.shtml

OpenAuction
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20080820/0110372037.shtml

Dec 4, 2008 @ 10:17

I am not sure why I didn’t post it. I guess I didn’t feel like going to how to do a counter-terror/counter-4GW 5GW. I should come back to this idea.

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In the NY Post:

All the complexity of counterterror operations comes down to three essential requirements: Superb intelligence, ruthless determination and tremendous patience.

Intelligence helps you find the enemies you need to kill; determination means you kill them – and patience means accepting that even a successful fight will take decades, if not generations.

Sounds right to me.

So, do we have “Superb intelligence”. I have no idea. It is at least “good” I would venture (and expect given the budget size).

Do we have “ruthless determination”? I don’t think – at least much of the political class doesn’t (or most the US  population).

Lastly, Does the US have “tremendous patience”. I would say no, for sure no way. The US did not have the patience in the Cold War. It took a 5GW to set much of the US cold war response on automatic.

I guess we need a Long War 5GW.

Sep 11, 2008 @ 16:08

My “Fixing Milwaukee” post are on hiatus. The problem is real big, I am a bit discouraged at the moment. I am not sure of the next steps.

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Reference Definition: Institutions

Definitions Matter. For future reference, I will use the definition for “Institutions”

“Institutions are the humanly devised constraints that structure human interaction. They are made up of formal constraints (rules, laws, constitutions), informal constraints (norms of behavior, conventions, and self imposed codes of conduct), and their enforcement characteristics.” [Ref: Douglass C. North Nobel Lecture]

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/1993/north-lecture.html ]

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/1993/north-lecture.html

Fixing Milwaukee Notes – Problem/Solutions Dimensions

• Institutions
• Culture
• Attitudes
• leadership
• incentives
• focus
• public relations
• security
• human capital
• demographics
• natural resources
• business

entrepreneurship
wealth and capital
regulatory laws, zoning
governmentsal relations
eva
infrastructure
swot
http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=4939
metrics

Oct 25, 2008 @ 8:35

This must have been inspired by some Obama advisers who wanted to get rid of 401ks. Their plan was to force the same contributions and give Americans something like a 2% return off it. This would have effectively decreased the wealth of Americans as more money would need to be saved for retirement (out side of the government plan) and this savings would have no tax favoured status. I haven’t heard anything about this recently though, so that is good news.

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http://hotair.com/archives/2008/10/23/democrats-to-kill-401ks-for-privatized-social-security/

http://hotair.com/archives/2008/10/23/pethokoukis-on-401k-demolition-socialism/

From Sep 26, 2008 @ 14:29

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What was I thinking?

asisted Living Robotics
http://www.thomaspmbarnett.com/weblog/2008/09/a_billion_elders_by_2050in_chi.html

bio-discovery driven engineering
http://www.thomaspmbarnett.com/weblog/2008/09/another_county_heard_from_on_a.html

I was going to write a post on this along time ago. Instead, I just follow this blog – robots.net . So, I am dumping these links. I may write on robotics now and then.

http://entitycrisis.blogspot.com/2009/01/giant-python-powered-robots.html

http://www.toywhimsy.com/2009/01/toy-tips-with-marianne-szymanski-robot-toys.html

http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/29/142258

http://blog.wired.com/defense/2009/01/pentagons-cybor.html

http://blog.wired.com/defense/2009/02/the-rules-of-ro.html

http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/22045/

http://blog.wired.com/defense/2009/02/peter-singers-w.html

http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/05/1727218

http://warisboring.com/?p=1662

http://blog.wired.com/defense/2009/02/gigapixel-flyin.html

http://blog.wired.com/defense/2009/02/meet-irobots-ad.html

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/military_law/4303374.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/4638195/Military-robots-must-be-taught-a-warrior-code.html

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126956.700-how-yoyoing-in-the-dark-teaches-robots-to-walk.html

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,496309,00.html

http://blog.wired.com/defense/2009/02/blue-dart.html

http://zenpundit.com/?p=3033

http://zenpundit.com/?p=3036

http://ubiwar.com/2009/02/13/weekend-robot-porn/

http://warisboring.com/?p=1643
http://warisboring.com/?p=1674

http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/04/2155204

http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/04/1844254

http://blog.wired.com/defense/2009/03/video-britains.html

http://blog.wired.com/defense/2009/02/bigdog-at-ft-be.html

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,505159,00.html

http://ifightrobots.com/

http://blog.wired.com/defense/2009/03/mini-bots-missi.html

http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/02/180259

http://crnano.typepad.com/crnblog/2009/03/robotic-control-without-computation.html

http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/09/147255

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/613860da-09dd-11de-add8-0000779fd2ac.html

http://dvice.com/archives/2009/03/grey_goo_anyone.php

http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2009/03/robots-making-cars.html

http://arherring.wordpress.com/2009/04/02/non-kinetic-uses-for-robotics-in-counterinsurgency/

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/03/31/robot-gardeners.html

http://www.jsonline.com/features/technology/42277832.html

http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/03/0049237
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/04/newtonai.html

http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/09/175205

http://www.mydesert.com/article/20090409/NEWS04/904080368/1010/news04

http://www.boozallen.com/publications/article/41598490

http://blog.wired.com/defense/2009/04/army-tests-new.html

http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/22/2235215

http://www.terraplexic.org/review/2009/4/2/robots-as-strategic-corporals.html

http://www.lnwprogram.org/publicfiles/download/Future+of+Unmanned+and+Robotic+Warfare?file_id=505283

http://althouse.blogspot.com/2009/04/we-have-developed-magnetically.html

http://ubiwar.com/2009/04/03/new-article-on-robots-and-warfare/

http://discovermagazine.com/2009/may/30-the-pentagons-beetle-borgs

http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/20/2228210

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/05/video-irobot-rolls-out-one-pound-machine-ready-to-swarm/

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30810070/
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,521013,00.html
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/21/1953243
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/05/robo-soldiers-more-ethical-than-gis-negative/
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/05/army-terminators-walk-like-a-man/

http://committeeofpublicsafety.wordpress.com/2009/05/04/maritime-strategy-and-cyberwar/

I found quite few old post of mine in “draft mode”. I am going to post them to also clear my mind. I am going to do a bunch of link dumps as well.

I will just note my prior posts on  9/10/2001 and 9/11/2001.

Maybe I will write more in a few days.

Here is a Quote Chain found on LyfLines via The Corner:

George Orwell:

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.

John Derbyshire:

Wherever there is a jackboot stomping on a human face there will be a well-heeled Western liberal to explain that the face does, after all, enjoy free health care and 100 percent literacy.

Thomas Friedman:

One-party autocracy certainly has its drawbacks. But when it is led by a reasonably enlightened group of people, as China is today, it can also have great advantages. That one party can just impose the politically difficult but critically important policies needed to move a society forward in the 21st century.

To which let me point out:

The Default American PoV has become a Leftist POV.

So, how do we Americans un-do this?

I followed a a stray through while browsing on the internet and re-found the Terak.

Scraped from: http://www.threedee.com/jcm/terak/

The Terak was the Micro Computer I used in my first college programming
class – CS302 Honors Intro to Computer Programming (using Pascal). While I had done some programming with BASIC on Apple 2s and a Dec PDP11, this was my first “real” programming class.

Found at the informative http://www.threedee.com/jcm/terak/ :

It is an early personal computer made by the Terak Corporation of Scottsdale, Arizona. It was sold from about 1979 until 1985.

One of the first models was the Terak 8510/a shown above. It was based on the popular PDP-11/03 processor, a 16-bit CPU. The Terak 8510 could have as much as 128K of RAM with the PDP-11/23 option. For storage, it has big eight-inch floppy drives that go klunk-klunk, in IBM 3740 format, holding roughly 256K, 512K or 1 meg each. Hard disks of five to forty megs were available. The Terak featured both RS-232 and 20 milliamp current loop serial connections, so you could connect to the printers and teletypes of the time. The keyboard included a numeric keypad and arrow keys arranged in a vertical column.

The Terak was advertised as a “Graphic Computer System.” It featured a monochrome 320 x 240 square-dot display and relatively advanced video features such as a purely bitmapped display, allowing a customizable character set, the mixing text and graphics on the same screen, and raster operations like continuous smooth panning and scrolling. The system included a twelve-inch composite video monitor. It even had programmable sound and a two-inch speaker. The main system box was robust metal, weighing about forty pounds.

Wait, WTF?

The Terak was popular for teaching Pascal to college kids. As such, all the oldsters who were in college then and used this computer have a great affection for it, meaning they can no longer remember how slow they were.

Oldsters? F*cking whippersnapper.

Anyways, I like how the author of the above got his:

I have several Terak 8510/a and hundreds of floppies. I bought the first one in 1990 for about $25 at a University of Wisconsin–Madison Surplus equipment sale. At one time, the UW had about a dozen Teraks in the computer science and math departments, including about eight that were available to students in entry-level programming classes.

…here.

Here is the original:

Here is the schedule for the upcoming roundtable on Xenophon’s Anabasis of Cyrus at Chicago Boyz:

Week of September 13, 2009: Posts re: Books I, II, III and IV
Week of September 20, 2009: Posts re: Books V, VI and VII
Week of September 27, 2009: “Wrap up” Posts: Opinions, Analysis, Conclusions.

I am in the middle of reading it right now. I am not sure of what angle I am going to take on my posts. I am just going to let my gut/emotion drive me in the moment.

Route of Xenophon and the Ten Thousand

From Wikipedia

If the left can look past (e.g ignore, downplay, justify) the high body counts of Stalin/Mao/Pol Pot/Saddam/etc, then one white girl dead in Ted’s car is no BFD to them.

I tweeted a slightly different version of the above, inspired from Leftist justifications and defenses I read on Twitter and elsewhere of Ted Kennedy’s actions that day and on the actions of Ted and the Kennedy family in the days that followed related to the incident.

Photo image from Wikipedia

Guest poster Charles Cameron writes at Zenpundit:

Why is eschatological or apocalyptic rhetoric significant?

It is an accelerant. Simply put, it is a force-multiplier, acting on morale via the sphere of religion, by providing divine sanction for violence — zeal with a deadline.

Oh boy. Fun fun fun! Read it all. Sigh.