I'd like to thank the mods of this board for their considered forbearance in allowing my detailed account in this Satoshi Nakamoto thread. - doublespend timestamp
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James Bowery said...Another vulnerability is covert occupation of the open source authority over the cryptocurrency. This is a real threat. An example: When I was implementing the "shop at home" encryption protocols for the Viewtron system back in 1982, I was given a spec that required the use of the weak DES system being promoted by NSA at the time. I started to implement an RSA public key initiation and was told to stop by the shop at home project director (I don't recall the name now). When I discussed with him my reasoning -- which included the fact that the NSA had a conflict of interest in promoting the DES system and that there were indications that the NSA could throw hardware at it to break it -- the project director told me flat out that he had worked for the NSA. Now, its true that getting an NSA operative into position in a joint venture between the largest newspaper chain and pre-breakup AT&T would not be that difficult, but really,
would it be much more difficult to subvert a volunteer group of programmers in charge of a cryptocurrency's algorithms?Reply Wednesday, 18 June 2014 at 12:29 PMhttps://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2014/06/the-nsa-now-owns-bitcoin.html=======================================
From A 2 Step Simple & Accurate Bitcoin Mining Calculator (2018 Updated)
https://99bitcoins.com/bitcoin-mining/bitcoin-mining-calculator/James Bowery's comment of 6 days ago:
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A good quote from Bowery from TOO:
Hate is the reaction by the powerless to insular power. Accusing someone of “hate” is to accuse them of being powerless and, yourself, of identifying with insular power.https://eginotes.wordpress.com/category/james-bowery/====================================================
James Bowery
Posted 4 years agoTragically, Thomas Piketty misses a key point of principle and in so doing also misses the key to the coalition that turns wealth taxation into a political slam-dunk.
If one simply treats government as a mutual property insurance corporation that charges insurance premiums rather than levying taxes, and in exchange indemnifies against force and fraud -- a corporation in which all adult citizens are voting share holders who can demand, via their board of directors, payout of dividends instead of public sector rent seeking in the guise of delivery of social goods -- everyone from libertarians to communists can be brought together in a united political coalition. Yes, there will be resistance from the powers that be, as Machiavelli warned all who would institute a new order of things. This inevitable resistance is all the more reason to stop ignoring the powerful coalition that will form around a philosophically coherent policy.
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https://majorityrights.com/weblog/comments/the_death_of_midwestern_computing_and_what_might_have_beenThe Death of Midwestern Computing and What Might Have Been
Posted by James Bowery on Thursday, 18 December 2008 16:23.
I’ve uploaded a video blast-from-the-past showing one small example an analogue of Leif Erickson’s discovery of Vinland, or the Apollo Moon landings: Midwest computer networking.
Click here to watch it.
As for what might have been: Imagine the Internet arriving in the home 15 years earlier than it did, completely bypassing Bill Gates and the standalone computer. Imagine a Midwest able to retain its educated boomers who might have been able to afford families there. Imagine independent engineering leadership breaking free from NASA’s stranglehold on industrialization of space, not in the 21st century, but in the 1980s.
As I previously wrote for VDARE:
A Reader Reminds Us That It Wasn’t Immigrants Who Invented The Computer Industry
Re: Norm Matloff’s Tamar Jacoby–”Silicon Valley Would Not Exist Without Immigration.” Wrong!
James Bowery email him wrote:
Matloff ignores the obvious fact that Silicon Valley would not exist without the Midwestern middle class WASPs. As Tom Wolfe documents in his Forbes article:, Robert Noyce and His Congregation,[August 25, 1997] virtually all of the essential inventions upon which Silicon Valley was founded were created by the much-derided, non-“vibrant”, “white-bread”, “middle class” of “fly-over country”. Last month I asked the aging Bob Johnson—former CTO of Burroughs Corporation when it was a leading mainframe company in Minneapolis where he developed the magnetic ink you see on the bottom of your checks—what he thought caused the loss of the Midwestern high tech leadership to the coasts, and he said it was the financial dominance of the coasts. That squares with what I observed while at Control Data Corporation/Cray Research, Inc. The reason Bill Norris and Seymour Cray were able to start CDC thence Cray Research was because they violated SEC regs and went around selling stock at PTA meetings, making a lot of middle class people retire very comfortably. My late father bought some Cray stock early on which helped greatly with his retirement. When I was at CDC in Arden Hills, MN attempting to deploy the mass market version of the PLATO network with Internet-like capabilities (the system that Ray Ozzie (Bill Gates’ replacement at Microsoft) cut his teeth on) in 1980 the primary resistance was from a middle management that, due to the financial press’ hostility toward Norris’s vision of a society disintermediated by computer networking, small high-tech farms and locally produced and consumed essentials—had itself grown hostile to Norris. My proposed solution is simple to state but will perhaps require a war to institute:
Replace all taxes on economic activity with a tax on net-assets, assessed at their in-place liquidation value, at the risk free interest rate (which according to modern portfolio theory is the short-term US Treasury rate) so as to extract all economic rents from the private sector, and then, to prevent public sector rent-seeking in pork-barrel politics, disperse those funds evenly in a dividend to all citizens, as the beneficiaries of the land-trust called the United States. That will not only stop the vicious centralization of power in the private and public sectors, but it will clarify the role of immigration—it is a dilution of the benefits intended for the Posterity of the Founders of the land trust called The United States of America. James Bowery’s previous letter is here.
PS: I am available for consulting at $8/hour.
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EDIT: Re above line in red-- hire Satoshi Nakamoto in December 2008 contiguous with the time he was coding Bitcoin for $8.00 an hour? I did later. -doublespend timestamp )
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https://majorityrights.com/weblog/comments/echelonEchelon
Posted by James Bowery on Friday, 19 February 2010 10:07. Just something I noticed about yesterday’s news out of Austin, Texas. It may be nothing, of course…
From a 1999 story at slashdot:
Echelon Confirmed by Australians
Posted by CmdrTaco
on Wed Nov 03, 1999 01:45 PM
from the do-you-see-what-I-see dept.
News
Arctic Fox writes ”The BBC has a story reporting that Australian intellegence confirms the existance of Echelon. “ Obviously there is no “Official” confirmation, but its still pretty interesting. “They” are definitely watching.
And, keeping in mind that 1999 was before Google took over Deja New’s archives and before Usenet had ceased being the major means of Internet commentary—my response:
What the Investigative Reporters Missed
(Score:3) by Baldrson (78598) writes: on Wednesday November 03 1999, @01:30PM (#1566010) Homepage Journal
Fact 1—Deja News is in the Echelon building: [citivu.com]
Deja News, Inc.
9430 Research Boulevard
Echelon II, Suite. 350
Austin, TX 78759
Fact 2—Cycorp [cyc.com] makes what are arguably the best tools for scanning the web for concepts.
Fact 3—Cycorp was a spinoff of MCC [mcc.com].
Fact 4—Deja News, Inc., Cycorp and MCC are within walking distance of each other.
Fact 5—Bobby Ray Inman [surnameweb.org] was the first director of the MCC.
Fact 6—Bobby Ray Inman is a spook’s spook.
I may be a bit biased here since I was invited to go to work at the MCC when it was in its early formative stages (before Austin had been selected). My office was, at that time
, at Arden Hills operations at Control Data Corporation, just two stories above about an acre of supercomputers that had signs hung on them that read “Fort Meade” [cmu.edu].As Seymour [ucar.edu] used to say to the “insurance” agents located at the “Thorp Insurance offices” out in the middle of the corn fields near his farm where his tribe was building the Cray-1:“Just don’t let my people know you’re here.”His address is 6001 West Palmer Ln, Suite 370 #167
Austin Tx, 78727
Google it and u get:
http://www.ascendantmarketing.com/contact-us/Look at the Bottom
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6001 West Palmer Ln, Suite 370 #167
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Is there a programming language that can be used in all environments and for all purposes? (Web server, mobile, Mac, Windows, machine learning, big data, AI, IoT, robotics, etc)?
James Bowery
James Bowery, Programming since 1972.
Answered Dec 29, 2017
The current answer is Python but JavaScript is trending due to the burgeoning npm/node platform and enormous resources going into optimizing JavaScript.
What are next possible challenges for Google's DeepMind to fascinate the World?
James Bowery
James Bowery, Orignator of idea for Hutter Prize for Lossless Compression of Human Knowledge
Answered May 23, 2016
Beat humans* at creating the smallest (most highly compressed) executable archive of Wikipedia.
This is equivalent to proving that DeepMind has a higher verbal intelligence than humans.
However… The fact that DeepMind was founded by the first PhD students** of Marcus Hutter, and that DeepMind has _not_ been at the forefront of advocating for an X-Prize for data compression along the lines of the Hutter Prize, indicates to me that Alpha Corporation sees Hutter's insight into a metric for AGI as something they'd rather not promote outside of their internal work.
*By “humans” I mean hand-coded compression algorithms designed specifically to compress a snapshot of Wikipedia. DeepMind is often touted as “model free”, which, of course, it cannot be since it has been proven that there is no such thing as a universal compression algorithm. Nevertheless, DeepMind does legitimately claim to have developed what might be called a meta-model — a model of how models are constructed — and that toward the goal of artificial general intelligence superior in at least some ways to human scientists.
**Back in 2006 I was asked on Slashdot what my advice would be for students interested in a career in AGI. My response then was to go study under Marcus Hutter. My advice now to the general public regarding AGI is to back compression prizes -- specifically of natural language corpora such as the Wikipedia change log. This is the first step toward "friendly" AGI as it reduces the chance of misunderstanding between humans and AGIs.
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