1. Empathize with your enemy.
2. Rationality will not save us.
3. There's something beyond one's self.
4. Maximize efficiency.
5. Proportionality should be a guideline in war.
6. Get the data.
7. Belief and seeing are both often wrong.
8. Be prepared to reexamine your reasoning.
9. In order to do good, you may have to engage in evil.
10. Never say never.
11. You can't change human nature.

"Its like they are daring us to revolt."

Two weeks from now the streets of NYC are going to be an interesting place. It might be the most significant display of politically driven action our generation has seen to date. Crazy amounts of emotion, for better or worse, are bubbling up all sharing the same focal point. I expect both the best and the worst our generation has to offer.

My own personal non-violent protest will most likely come in the form of drinks at the Molly Wee, if I can get anywhere near it...

Sinfest 8/18/04

] Citing problems with truancy and youth violence, the Los
] Angeles City Council on Wednesday approved an ordinance
] restricting the hours during which minors can visit
] Internet cafes and requiring the shops to install video
] cameras for security.

"PC Gangers"

Los Angeles clamps down on cybercafes | CNET News.com

Highly regarded here and abroad for some thirty works of cultural history and criticism, master historian Jacques Barzun has now set down in one continuous narrative the sum of his discoveries and conclusions about the whole of Western culture since 1500.

I just picked up a copy today. From the perspective of several dozen pages into it, its not only a good book, but a pleasurable read. Barzun writes in a conversational style that's easy to parse at a healthy clip.

From Dawn to Decadence

By examining structural forms, the location of entities within these structures, and of the formation and dynamics of ties that make up these structures, we learn about the parts of behavior that are uniquely social.

Be sure to check out "The 'Bush Team' in Reuters News Ticker 9/11-11/15/01."

You will need to install the Adobe SVG browser plugin in order to view all of the graph data.

JoSS: Journal of Social Structure

Lectures include:
    Unlocking the Promise of Stem Cells
    A New American Empire?
    The College Experience
    Magic of Numbers
    E.O. Wilson, on the relation of science and the humanities

Harvard@Home

The real future of digital technologies and networks rests with the architects of great relationships.

MemeStreams is a core Internet technology.

MemeStreams will help you manage relationships, namespace, and other critical communication and relationship concepts.

The Relationship Revolution

Most important, the decline in the number of Americans training to become scientists and engineers suggests the need to reinvigorate science education in the public schools.

Losing Our Technical Dominance

As the tradition goes for Hacker Cons in the SouthEast, a list of reasons to attend is usually constructed. They are always slanted in a given direction due to the events of the last year, and the expected events of the next. Yuck it up, and/or add your own.

- Everything we have told you, for years now, has either come to pass or been partly true.
- You desire to test your ability to be evasive.
- Your paranoia is more of a fine tuned skill rather then a serious disability, but you still can't turn it off. You are coming to find a new drug.
- You have studied the art of lurking.
- You are not looking for a job.
- The whole September 11th thing still pisses you off.
- You know where certain streets are in every major American City.
- You love DARPA.
- You are terrified of DARPA.
- You called on information systems, but you still have not found an occupation. You are busy watching the detectives scurry as everyone hurries down doomsday.
- You use no crypto because the emperor wears no clothes.
- You have built infrastructure, not weapons.
- You know infrastructure and are a weapon.
- Arguing about Bill Joy being right or wrong has reached the point of diminishing returns, you would rather just help the process along.
- You suddenly realized that the "jokes" you make in the subject headers of all the encrypted email you send might be taken seriously.
- You'd be worried about you too, and all your friends.
- Since turning 18, every company you have completely destroyed or damaged financially, your own and those of others, has been accomplished via completely acceptable and legal American style business practices, by both post and pre Enron standards, for whatever the fuck that's worth.
- Many of us are well aware of the amateur bands.
- You are happy about Lessig's new book because if people read it, it will save you time.
- Offline its all about location, online its all about licensing.
- Power systems have always been a common topic of discussion.
- You were born to argue.
- Your college diploma has not opened any doors for you.
- Not having a college diploma has shut doors you installed.
- You have a copy of The Prince in one hand and Art of War in another.
- Regardless of who is in office, you have always part of the loyal opposition.
- You are looking for something to blog about, again.
- You are aware the term Social Network has existed since the 1800's.
- Corporate engineering of grouping architecture might best be called Industrial Memetics.
- Diebold is putting the security of future elections at serious risk, and someone is pulling their strings.
- You are the government, but the constituency is not clearly defined.
- You have a search technology that does not fall under Google's patents.
- Microsoft is trying to kill you, and you have been told by trusted parties this i... [ Read More (0.3k in body) ]

Decius wrote:
] Acidus wrote:
] ] -Furthermore, the infrastructure itself causes me to violate
] ] the laws without even knowing it.
]
] It is my opinion that laws ought to apply to people and their
] behaviors, rather then technologies and their architectures.
] There are cases where technologies make new behaviors
] possible, and in those cases we need new legislation, but
] simple ideas such as the notion that a private conversation is
] private ought to apply without respect to the technological
] mechanism through which the conversation takes place.
]
] In almost all cases where it has been argued that old laws do
] not apply or that new laws must be created because of the
] technical architecture of a system, such arguements are almost
] always wrong and consistently employed dishonestly.

There is another way to attack the problem. Explicit licensing. If IM clients understood what terms text typed in a given discussion space or chat room were licensed under, then many of these problems would start to dissolve. Or at the very least, could be approached in a different way.

You gave the example of +i on an IRC channel indicating that its more private. I'm of the opinion that they type of social cues are what we need to foster the development of to attack these particular set of problems.

In certain venues, you know its acceptable to record, such as when a public official is speaking. In other venues, you know it is not acceptable to record, such as seeing a play on Broadway or a Rolling Stones concert. Other areas, are very grey, like open mic night at your local coffee house. The only way to attack the problem is through the creation of shared conventions.

The law should not address the architecture, but the architecture can address the problem in a way the law already allows. That would be the path of least resistance. In this case, recording consent law is different from place to place. IP law is the same, hence, that may be the best way to tread.

I think a way to distinguish if you are speaking with a "public" or "private" voice in regard to IM and chat rooms is a "good idea"(tm). I think it should follow the place, as opposed to the speaker.

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