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Tuesday, December 16, 2014
If I had to choose one tragic story to illustrate the progress of American civilization in the 20th century, it would be the tale of Milli Vanilli.
It's a story of music people like, enjoy... then reject because the dancers aren't the same people as the singers. Simply knowing this triggers the judgmental streak so typical of our society with its Puritan roots, and now, in the new millenium, rendered savage and omniscient by the Internet and reality television.
The psychology of Rob and Fab is the truly tragic part. Rob in particular could never repair his self-identity.
And languishing somewhere in history is the story of the unsung genius who actually WROTE the songs. Oh wait, there were five of them... thanks wikipedia.
Thursday, September 11, 2014
Monday, June 10, 2013
Patriot Net
I've got a great idea for a company. It's something I could really get behind. Here goes.
Patriot Net
An opt-in botnet for US citizens. Non-profit corporation.
The botnet has three uses:
1. Peer-to-peer randomly routed encrypted darknet for US citizens and their guests.
2. "Mesh" style public Internet via the wireless routers of opted-in citizens.
3. The botnet, via a two-thirds majority vote of its members, may aid the US government in cyber warfare, as an offensive capability.
Let's roll.
Ben Lindquist aka Arkowitz
Falls Church
20130610
Patriot Net
An opt-in botnet for US citizens. Non-profit corporation.
The botnet has three uses:
1. Peer-to-peer randomly routed encrypted darknet for US citizens and their guests.
2. "Mesh" style public Internet via the wireless routers of opted-in citizens.
3. The botnet, via a two-thirds majority vote of its members, may aid the US government in cyber warfare, as an offensive capability.
Let's roll.
Ben Lindquist aka Arkowitz
Falls Church
20130610
Friday, June 7, 2013
My personal experience of live government surveillance
Some months ago I was walking from memorial to memorial around the tidal basin in DC with my family. The Occupy movement was still active in DC at the time.
When we got to the Washington Monument I found a discarded ziptie handcuff; I took a photo with my cellphone, with the monument in the background. I shared it to Facebook with the caption "Occupy this". Funny right?
We proceeded on to the Jefferson Memorial. I was out front walking through an empty parking lot area. A massive - like 6'5" tall - African-american motorcycle cop had parked his bike by the sidewalk in the direction I was heading, and was on his radio. As I approached to his left, he got off the radio and walked DIRECTLY into my path. I continued my straight line walk until I found myself blocked by him, and I stopped about two inches away from him. I said something like "oh hello there", and then went around him.
My wife witnessed this strange behaviour from the cop. There was absolutely no apparent reason for him to walk on an intercept course so that I would be forced to either evade him or run into him.
This is how I know that not only was the government monitoring what I posted on Facebook, it was able to follow up by tracking me with my cellphone; and was making sure I was not the beginning of an Occupy presence at any of the memorials.
The ultimate irony should be obvious; I believe strongly in what the Washington Monument and the Jefferson Memorial represent.
Ben
When we got to the Washington Monument I found a discarded ziptie handcuff; I took a photo with my cellphone, with the monument in the background. I shared it to Facebook with the caption "Occupy this". Funny right?
We proceeded on to the Jefferson Memorial. I was out front walking through an empty parking lot area. A massive - like 6'5" tall - African-american motorcycle cop had parked his bike by the sidewalk in the direction I was heading, and was on his radio. As I approached to his left, he got off the radio and walked DIRECTLY into my path. I continued my straight line walk until I found myself blocked by him, and I stopped about two inches away from him. I said something like "oh hello there", and then went around him.
My wife witnessed this strange behaviour from the cop. There was absolutely no apparent reason for him to walk on an intercept course so that I would be forced to either evade him or run into him.
This is how I know that not only was the government monitoring what I posted on Facebook, it was able to follow up by tracking me with my cellphone; and was making sure I was not the beginning of an Occupy presence at any of the memorials.
The ultimate irony should be obvious; I believe strongly in what the Washington Monument and the Jefferson Memorial represent.
Ben
Monday, May 6, 2013
the dream of two layers
[9:33:30 PM] Ben Lindquist: I have a dream of two layers
[9:34:06 PM] Ben Lindquist: layer 1 a standardized set of machines up to and including os, secure, managed + networking
[9:34:39 PM] Ben Lindquist: layer 2 a standard way to run a process, with cpu and memory upper bounds, upon layer 1
[9:35:20 PM] Ben Lindquist: give me a way to create processes... rather than vm's. :)
[9:34:06 PM] Ben Lindquist: layer 1 a standardized set of machines up to and including os, secure, managed + networking
[9:34:39 PM] Ben Lindquist: layer 2 a standard way to run a process, with cpu and memory upper bounds, upon layer 1
[9:35:20 PM] Ben Lindquist: give me a way to create processes... rather than vm's. :)
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