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May 13, 2010

AltSci is back up, with SSL as it should be. All the links that were broken (except one or two) should be working and shouldn't give any SSL warnings. Before AltSci went down in February, it had a really good uptime. My analysis of the hard drive was that age and not anything fishy caused the crash. I added a stick of RAM and a new terabyte (a thousand gigabytes) hard drive and AltSci is back up for business. I am looking at offering a few new services beyond the websites and shell for hackers. But when a person thinks of services, they must also think about their customer. So I ask you dear reader, would you use additional services? What do you think about each and would you be willing to pay for the service if it was offered by an allied service (not AltSci itself, but rather someone fully endorsed by AltSci)? If you would like a service but not be willing to pay for it, why not?

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Jan 16, 2010

Today I have been more productive in the tasks I want to get done than the past two weeks. What stops a person from doing what they want to do when they don't have to do anything? Procrastination, laziness, sloth, and depression are keywords for the type of feeling a person has when they are unwilling or incapable of doing what they want. The question of whether it is volition or predetermined is of great importantance. If it is volition a person can choose whether they are able to do what they want. If it is predetermined the person simply must wait until the period of inactivity is over. If we are convinced that the inaction is by choice we must find a way to force ourselves to act.

And so I have turned the corner and I don't know how. Perhaps it was encouragement from others in other projects, perhaps it's a sense of accomplishment that another project is finished. Does it make sense that a person would be unwilling to work on one project while another is in limbo or a broken state? Even if you aren't directly working on that project knowing that your future depends on it is enough to cause anxiety. This anxiety is probably enough to cause a form of depression or escapism. When I worry about the unknown I have two choices: do something about it or let it continue. Each has consequences and benefits. Often the choice to do something causes such fear and doubt that a person will avoid the very reasoning that should cause them to do something. This type of awful loop is certainly the cause of much grief in many people's lives. I am not at the point where I will give self- improvement advice to others but if my logic is correct a person might be able to understand something on their own based on my rather lame blog.

Oct 28, 2009

Click the links to my Toorcon Talk Video and Advanced Code Relationship Mapping Slides.

I don't have enough time to go into details. You can tell that it's me because the links are pretty obviously to video and my site.

Oct 11, 2009

I will be covering three topics very poorly tonight. Don't worry, I'll lay it out step by step as well as I can.

First off, this philisophical topic is incredibly rich and complex. I could write a dozen good essays about it and I can't even start to write a good one tonight but I'd like to discuss it. You see in order to discuss what I want to discuss, I have to explain to the casual reader why it's important and what is going on, which makes a pretty decent introduction. On Thursday I went to a talk by ACLU-WA about the Patriot Act and current surveillience tactics by the federal and local governments. The ACLU and EFF both oppose the provisions of the Patriot Act as unconstitutional. I've talked about the problem of the Patriot Act a few times before. The Supreme Court is allowing the constitution to be raided by corrupt and ignorant politicians and law enforcement is abusing the laws they are sworn to uphold. In the name of anti-terrorism, they are arresting anti-war activists for attempted disorderly conduct. That's right here in Washington State. These peaceful activists will be suing the government before long for infringement of their civil rights. But as I have said before the judiciary doesn't seem to care about the constitution anymore. It's practically done for. In the EFF's lawsuit against the NSA, Obama and the Attorney General have claimed National Security yet again. Without reasonable proof there is no reason why a military agency (the NSA is part of DoD even if it's budget is secret) should be allowed to operate against US citizens, let alone be allowed to wiretap all citizens without any suspicion.