I hate base 10

"Money is only worth anything if you believe it is worth anything"

Bitcoin

I recently discovered this "new" thing called BitCoins. it is a virtual currency that is based on p2p networking and cryptography trickery.

The idea behind Bit coin is that there is a finite number of coins that can ever exist, this is hard coded in to the system. the second is that new money is made by solving complicated sah256 cryptography calculations: you will receive 50 BTC (Bitcoins) if some conditions are met.

are they worth any thing?

why yes as of this moment the current trading rate for BTC is 0.8 EUR/BTC or 1.5 USD/BTC

The good

P2P.

It is anonymous.

It solves some Cryptography calculations.

There is no central "bank" to speak of.

You can use it to day.

The bad

There is no central bank.... bubbles can burst an no one can stop it. Eco crime will become impossible to track.

Deflation problem. Due to the fact that there only ever can be a finite number of coins the "Deflation Spiral Effect" can start to make the markets unstable and collapse. (That is why on one use gold-, silver-, or copper standard any more.)

The not so good and not so bad

The rate of the coins exchange is a market, you can sell and by it like if it was stock, and play the market. This makes it a good currency, but it also creates a uncertainty among the dealers.

Send me your coins!

Send em here:
1GV2yimh5NGkG5SXvMuTLQ8Dbdg8oiKok

rurrent rates and xechanges

https://www.aurumxchange.com/
https://btcex.com/
http://coincard.ndrix.com/
Full list:
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Category:Exchanges
exchange rate:
http://bitcoinwatch.com/
get 0.05 BTC:
http://freebitcoins.appspot.com/

Finding the hidden

"if it is not on google it does not exist"
-- Some marketing guy at a company in Sweden who got booted from google.

A proposal for the W3C

I have been looking at different search engines and found that the king of kings is still Google, but there is a problem with Google: no one knows how it works, and they have a total control over the web, b/c "if you can not be found on google you are dead".

This seems OK for most of us, but some see it a big problem. So do I.

The proposal

I propose that the W3C put together a working group for "the federated search engine".

why you ask?

b/c it is more ethical to have a distributed web then a static one, the web we have is so static that it hurts to think about it.

There are already many meta search engines and open p2p engines. but they falter in that they are a) using the same old engines that are the "kings" of the web or b) they are unmoderated, and prone to manipulation.

What I propose is something radically different: a federated search engine, consisting of web crawler nodes that run on the engines, then the nodes can subscribe to other engines to got updates or query them for answers.

The thing with this is that you could use simple, already in use tech to do this. and the engines can blacklist and white list results according to patterns or methods.

each engine could have different methods of doing there crawl and prioritising of results. and different nodes can do different things, some only index universities an other only forums and so on.

and if a site wants to be indexed they can send an API request to the nodes to show that they exist. and if nodes decide that the request is spam or malice they can get blacklisted, but only on that node.

Full node search

Now then, how do we do queries without causing mayhem on the web? awnser: Full node search.

the full node search will query all the (known) nodes for an update, then do a regex of the data, and build a response to the query.

the full node search can (if wanted) send queries to the different nodes for them to pull the latest priorety list, count, black/white list, and meta data from the the node that requested the full node search update.

the white listing and black listing of sites can be done by the users, flagging and proboting.

the Process of flagging should be simple and not to complicated: just hit [flag] button by the link and you get asked "why?" and there is a drop down list of answers ("offensive" should never be on such lists), then you will be asked for your e-mail (this should not be mandatory) then the flag request is of.
to prevent the flagging from being exploited the node should track the flaggings and if there is a spike of flaggings of one site bar flagging of the site and SysOps are noted to look into the matter.

the same goes for whitlisting, or promoting, but here you have to log in, with OpenID or simmilar to shaw that you are a real porson, then you will be asked for your e-mail and then an e-mail is sent to confirm the request.
Same spike logic applies here as in the oxamplo of flagging.

I LOVE GOOGLE!

just saying.

they promote FLOSS and have a big role in the fight against OOXML in the ISO. even if it phaild it was a good effort that we all are grateful for.

The SOC projects are a grate initiative, and relay pushes FLOSS to become more friendly with to the devs.

Thank you Goggle.

nathing now.

"And that is why we do not let him out, Jim"
Sam Harris Puts It Straight

Since I have troubled coming up with any real content I will just post this video here....



The full speech: http://2tu.us/3b4e

I can not eat that! it is Pi(e)

I am Just leaving thin here.

Original Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG7vhMMXagQ

TinyOgg video: http://tinyogg.com/watch/9SFvY/

The tau manifesto: http://tauday.com/

the cutter cutting the cutter

"hello forum" -- RWJ
UN -- The end of it self.
A few days ago (11 03 24) at school there was a lecturer holding lecture about the UN and the work it does, the current Arabian revolution, and how "we" can help by not helping.

This lecturer has been an UN-soldier, Worked for the Swedish Military and mush more - he, Per Erik Korsström, Told it straight and with resolve. He "put the cards on the table" as we say in Sweden about the Arabian revolution, how the US helps suppress the people around the world, and why no one is helping in Sudan, Darfur and other places.

The betray of the west.
Was something he spent a long time talking about. It was interesting to hear how the west has betrayed the Arabic world, First after the First World War, Then the creation of the state of Israel, Third the First Gulf War - Not taking out Saddam Hussain when they were so close to Baghdad. The last betray was actually a orderd by Other Arabian states, the general in charge of the first Gulf war was not even American, He was Saudi (or something - I do not quite remember what Korsström said).

The blue berets -- blue helmets -- UN-soldiers.
One interesting thing that he brought up was that the UN-Soldiers are soon gone, there are very few countries that actually send soldiers to do UN-service, Sweden -- My home land -- has no UN-soldiers at all, this is a huge difference between the old war Sweden did things and the new, before we sent of the most soldiers to do UN-service of any country, now non. We have soldiers in other countries, yes, but they are not funder UN flag, but NATO flag. This despite we being officially "alliance free".

End of conscription in Sweden -- a betray against the world.
Korsström argued that the end of conscriptation in Sweden made for more aggressive soldiers, this due to that when they do military service it is not there profession rather a service to the country, or the UN, they do it to help, and so on.
He told us about his experience of Bosnia and how the Swedish peace keepers were kind and respectful to the locals, but the Americans and the British were hostile to everybody. he argued that this was due to that for the Brits and the Americans it was there profession, while the Swedes did this a a service.


The most dangerous leader in the world.
Is, according to Korsström, is Netanyahu (president of Israel). This due to his and the Israeli militarise utter disrespect for UN treaties and there utter disrespect for civilian life.
There are war treaties that that that a military action only has to be as grate as is required, and should be in proportion.
This is something that something that is not the case when it comes to the Israeli militarise raid against Lebanon last year (?) when 5 Israeli soldiers were kidnapped.... the outcome was that 500 Lebanese civilians died, this is not in proportion, and is a war crime.
why has not any Israeli leaders been taken before the court in Haag? simple: the veto of the USA (period).


The USA is not the only one who does not want interference in different conflicts around the world, China and Russia are vetoing against many interventions around the world.
 
End notes

Here is two interviews with him ( in Swedish) and to give you a better wive of who he is.

The paper crane and the world wide sea

"I am worried" -- me
On copyright again.

As the few readers of this Blag may know, I wrote about the book "free culture" a wire back.
I have just listened to Glyn Moodys (@glynmoody@identi.ca) key note at FSCONS it relay fits in to the last "article" i wrote on the subject of copy right.

here is the video:

Glyn Moody - Keynote: Ethics of Intellectual Monopolies from FSCONS on Vimeo

Curriculum Vitae
BTW.
I have made a CV so yee guys can get a better view of who I am...
It is is Swedish so do not expect to be able to read it.

   bzr branch lp:~gustav-hartvigsson/+junk/CV

or here

The moon has fallen

Hi there this is just a random blag post.
A Report, And Some Code
I did a project at school (it is some random filler coarse) and I wanted to show you what I have done.

first of: The project is in Swedish, so do not expect te be able to read it, but the change log is in English.

I Used BZR and launchpad to do the work and keeping track of the changes, so you can grab the code here:

https://code.launchpad.net/~gustav-hartvigsson/+junk/Dataanalys

or via bzr:

bzr branch lp:~gustav-hartvigsson/+junk/Dataanalys

For the PDF click here.