ConcernedCitizen’s Comments

• Aug 20th, 2015 @ 8:41am

  Re: M. Kahle's presentation

  on Two Important Speeches: The Threats To The Future Of The Internet... And How To Protect An Open Internet
  You can see alternative formats of the video here:
  
  First video:
  https://archive.org/details/BrewsterKahleTNWConferenceEurope2015
  MP4 download:
  https://archive.org/download/BrewsterKahleTNWConferenceEurope2015/BrewsterKahleTNWConferenc eEurope2015.mp4
  
  Second video:
  https://archive.org/details/bresterkahlenetgain
  MP4 download:
  https://archive.org/download/bresterkahlenetgain/brewsterkahledistributedweb_720p.mp4
• Aug 20th, 2015 @ 8:32am

  Re: Re: Re: Noble ideas, but doomed to failure

  on Two Important Speeches: The Threats To The Future Of The Internet... And How To Protect An Open Internet
  Wifi mesh networks are a fascinating alternative to hardwired connections. But that is at the same networking level as the Internet. The focus of the debate is on decentralizing the protocols running on top of that, www specifically. Check out this list of alternatives: https://gist.github.com/moshest/aea88f152fac89e1c526
• Aug 19th, 2015 @ 4:54pm

  Re: Re: Noble ideas, but doomed to failure

  on Two Important Speeches: The Threats To The Future Of The Internet... And How To Protect An Open Internet
  I found this Gist:
  A collection of peer-to-peer decentralized projects
• Aug 19th, 2015 @ 4:35pm

  Re: Re: Jerry Pournelle

  on Two Important Speeches: The Threats To The Future Of The Internet... And How To Protect An Open Internet
  I might be misreading the quote, but I think the "isn't important" is referring to the distinction between "infra-" versus "super-" structure.
  
  Also, although John Oliver is very funny, the video you linked to was regarding maintaining existing infrastructure, which is only tangential to the quote from Jerry Pournelle. I think the quote is about the tendency of civilization to create more structure (new structure), and because bureaucracy benefits from structure, then bureaucracy grows as civilization does. But the real crux of the argument is that bureaucracies care more about self-preservation and expanding than they do about fulfilling their original purpose, i.e., bureaucracy is a parasite that grows as the structural output of its host grows.
• Aug 19th, 2015 @ 3:36pm

  Re: Noble ideas, but doomed to failure

  on Two Important Speeches: The Threats To The Future Of The Internet... And How To Protect An Open Internet
  I think you need to re-read the article. The Internet is successfully decentralized; it's the world-wide web that is not. Internet != web
  
  So if the technological marvel that we call the Internet can be decentralized, why do you find it so impossible that a protocol running on top of it cannot also be decentralized?
• Aug 17th, 2015 @ 2:16pm

  Hypothesis Contrary to Fact

  on New Hampshire Law Banning Ballot Selfies Struck Down As Unconstitutional
  Making a law that impinges freedom of expression needs more justification than a speculative worst case scenario.
  
  I understand the argument that showing proof of who you voted for can facilitate vote-buying, but I don't believe such an important freedom as free speech/expression should be limited based only on "what-if" arguments.
• Aug 3rd, 2015 @ 10:20am

  Re:

  on Awesome Stuff: Making GovTrack Even More Awesome
  Found these cartoons by Ben Hammer: https://medium.com/govtrack-insider/cartoon-congress-scotus-rules-on-obamacare-b054461727be
• Aug 3rd, 2015 @ 9:56am

  Re: In Canada?

  on Awesome Stuff: Making GovTrack Even More Awesome
  Maybe https://openparliament.ca/ is similar
• Jul 22nd, 2015 @ 11:50am

  More Accuracy

  on Comcast Really Wants Me To Stop Calling Their Top Lobbyist A 'Top Lobbyist'
  Since Comcast wants you to be less accurate in your descriptions, the obvious response should be a more accurate title for him: Chief Bribery Officer