Invention of the teenager

Try also 'My invented Country'

lifting in a way the modern notion of country often described in some cases by arbitrary geographic boundaries delineating these compact 'neat' separations, or consider the partitions occurring where a group of peoples generally having shared culture, language, religion and so forth but are split according to geopolitical boundaries, and then modern solutions to these problems are annexation, partition, and so forth...especially if lexical speaking is on the notions of 'power sharing' a vice of the day.  Sadly, you wonder about referendums?!  Could a centuries old notion in the running gain popularity?!  

NSA revelations and all absurdities entailed

    If you were asking the question 'Why?' or 'Why all the expense?'  Its really not expensive creating much that could be created.  I dealt with this question of 'why', on a given other occasion...one on the point that the idea itself were somehow enough to drive crazy.  Generally a very false assertion, or at least likely to be given the amount of rational thinking otherwise, and then provided that one were reserved enough in waiting for the efforts of other 'respected' individuals in outright saying so, or in other words, if in tandem you hear the chorus saying 'what isn't so', is so, at least the many couldn't be dismissed as 'dangerous delusional'.

But returning to the question of 'why' as in 'why' anything should be as it were, it could be likened often times I wonder to the principle of path of least resistance.  If there animals are to traverse a trail, do you think often they would pass the steepest points over and over to make work harder for themselves?!  Nope, and it seems often times even in the wilderness trails that people use, are likely ones that may have been established by animals firstly, or no less in some effort to make less effort, if we've said little, what should seem an effort is no longer so much effort.  Then as I've stated over again, technology isn't exactly a friend, if it is cheap and prolific, resistances to movement should seem less so.  Certainly if watching is easier, so to communication, and then what should seem elaborate social setups, hadn't amounted really to displacements of people on the ground to create an elaborate social scene, or theater much, or creations of this sort in virtual space should be easy enough (again considering the co opt of the platform already handed to one).  The virtual of World of Warcraft were unlikely created by the NSA but the NSA could very well use, especially if the cost of this social theater were mere rack space and an ample amount of server power for hosting with lifted code to boot.  There should seem very little resistance, if social theater, involved not hundreds of actors that might dissent to a given role, or that such role were defined hundreds, thousands, or more, by one individual alone with the platform and code, or that code were key here in creating as in other estates, illusions.  This is to say if you believed it were expensive then it were, seems to play upon the same level of understanding that I might have if technological occasion were spent on the surface using what were created, as often I suspect not only I but many do.   

As it stands, I am not sure about recent trending in game console sales, last I read, poorer figures across the board.  Not sure if this relates to any particular distrust concerning the modern MMO these days, or amounts to other economic factors.  

Beyond this virtual role, that it seems in some way shape or form I've encountered something potentially, the other world, is hard in more clearly seeing.  After all, it still costs to drive a car from point A to point B, while the free lunch could be given virtually to the other with wireless camera transmissions and gps tracking...consider a transmitter placed unbeknownst to you on your vehicle somewhere...now how expensive is that...well...likely these days less then hundred bucks...alongside the camera...did you notice the battery draining on your digital camera faster then the norm or when you thought it were powered off...now how expensive truly were a 3G enabled wireless camera without your knowledge?  Doesn't seem a whole lot, sure markets charge an extra hundred dollars or so for devices that are solely Wi Fi versus 3G or 4G or whatever happens to be the current wireless cellular technology...but sadly, you wondered in that space if propaganda were running so quick and clean that your snapped photos could be transmitted to a source, or given to make your photos look like crap, or that someone somewhere would plant code on your little digital camera to make portrait shots look like someone were aged (consider aging, via HDR programs, were you lift the light enhancement settings...originally developed for potential medical uses, look scanning for pulse rates of individuals, here augmenting and filtering light in similar fashion, could bring out the pimples and wrinkles underneath the makeup, or perform the exact opposite of desired photo shop enhancements).  Sadly you might want to have an old fashioned non digital camera if you were a ghost hunter!  :) Of course, it seems a bother, doing this to you but maybe someone else somewhere for some self serving reason...or that at least to some image is power, perception is power.  Of course, if absurdly one were asking how and why, I recalled seeing my doppelganger years ago in a Call of Duty 2 game, or as it the development of Google's environment mapping project were completed years ago, by surveillance teams likely in the aims of facial recognition systems, and these days despite all this, social networking systems for digital cameras is merely in keeping with smartphones.  It seems even a previous post conspires in a ways to the wonders of technology without much consideration to the darker implications, it seems that if you wanted better imaging, it might not be for your benefit alone.  Wink! Wink!  Someone  spying on you might need better imaging for low light conditions better and fancier optical zoom technology, or that higher bandwidth, meant less downtime for uploading whatever stuff that happened to be on your system.

In a way, sadly, I'd only hint that maybe I should feel used to enough invasions of privacy, if at least it weren't through the obvious persistent dealings of warrant less home invasion searches, these insidious contraptions are certainly part of the conspiracy, and boots on the ground by the way, are much more expensive, or at least, one should hope one weren't spying to the extent of finding a best entry exit time out of the personal home.  As it were once theorized that this were costly, these days, even the margins here could be declining given enough technological sophistication and know how in the process?

But at least despite all the apparent 'common sense' of domestic surveillance meant that a security apparatus hadn't resorted to the timeless tactic of holding you as the dredged up bogus threat for the sake of justifications for all things being?!  Someday, sadly, I imagined tailored A.I. systems handling these aspects of social control, where you weren't exactly dealing with a human parsing your words, but a system that were programmed with your psychology in mind, and at least you were checked up on by the facebook friends that you hadn't seen for years, or had you thought to do the checking?

Some recent experiences that seems similar to the malware article

NSA plans to use malware

Not surprising.

  I'd probably recommend that you pay attention to inter device accounts that you use.  For instance, a sign on on your smartphone, that is used with your home computer/laptop, with any tablet and so forth.  Paying attention means noticing things like this:  I suddenly go to a website (on my home computer/laptop) that does not have a record of my recent user sign up sign on, while another device (android) smartphone/tablet does have a record.  At least this seems the more obvious sign (that happened to me...after windows security patch update).  What happened, while the alleged website appeared to host a legitimate website for a popular game known as 'Grepolis' whose app incidentally I downloaded formally through Google Play for a given smartphone/tablet type device, had me sign up for the game which I did through such hardware.  I received an email link after signing up on my inter hardware gmail account which apparently was shown to be representing the company's game server.  Unwittingly instead of typing the game servers html address formally or using an alternate link direct method relative the email link, I would choose the email link which I suspect was a bogus proxy fake, made to look like the real one.  Once signed up through the fake server, generally I'd pull this server up likely having stored through search history and caching the fake address each time that I logged on the  given home computer's website address.  I played the game unwittingly for a couple of days without realizing this.  On the second day a typical windows security patch goes through with an added malicious malware removal tool added in the mix.  I noticed this at the time since I manually update windows often instead of waiting for it to update automatically.  After the given windows security update, after I appeared to go to the same address (assuming cached copy of the html link through the google search bar), I tried logging in with user id/password credentials but I receive a log in error message ('user information incorrect')  when I try to 'retrieve lost password' I receive a message 'user email not found'.  Thus, apparently the given game server suddenly claims that I am not there, with no given user record, while it appeared to show this a day before?!  But I am able to log in with the same credentials on my smartphone/tablet?!  What's the deal?!  To check game server site addressing, I cross checked site address formally using link directs through google search with a formal search on the string of the of the game's name...using this like and trying the procedure again for my given email for log on, yielded the same problems.  It seems on the one hand I couldn't log on suddenly on my laptop while I could on smartphone/tablet.

While formally, given the information that I've provided I couldn't rule out a number of potential other possibilities, it seems one possibility were there, namely, that someone may have run a proxy/fake copy of the game server.  I couldn't claim this were technically done by the NSA although I'd offer if the hack were somehow inserted either at point of service from Google Play, it were a piece of mal ware that existed on Google Play's end, or a number of other possibilities.  Google Play weren't offering compromised apps but my smartphone/tablet were entirely compromised, and I were accessing a proxy/fake of the Google Play store, or selectively the app from Google Play were cherry picked by already installed mal ware on my given tablet/smartphone...of course, other possibilities extending this logic without examination of code.

In any event, I couldn't formally indicate who were responsible although I might offer, that if this issue were relating to malware, it should seem sophisticated enough maybe less likely to be conducted operationally from 'lone wolf' kiddie hacks.

For this, I decided to start a 'compartmentalization' of my given log in accounts between hardware devices.  Namely, that I wouldn't not use a centralized account for any given hardware, but instead I would opt to use separate log ins for each device.  Why?!  One  for segregated accounts, at least, in this case, if you were concerned with compromising account data is less likely if you restrict a given account's accessing hardware.
Yes the downside to this method means not being able to use the smartphone/tablet for a home computer's facebook access if you truly want to keep your account credentials hardware segregated, and increasing probabilities that your account is safer.  Basically this goes to the mantra of old intel classification and security protocols.

Finally, while I couldn't argue this were the case, I'd offer the possibility that if this should be true possibly, it could be more then likely a reality.  Game server hosting is not new, it has been around...and generally if you were into popular MMO titles, there could be a possibility that you weren't playing on a game company's mmo server but instead on a proxy one...of course, it seems crazy to suggest in a way that copied social aspects of the game persistently appear to be much the same as in a legitimate game copy, but considering that artificial intelligence bots and scripts in part designed to mimic basic attribute data, could in theory be performed at little expense of the proxy hosting once code has been established, means potentially that any player in the future targeted and whose system were infected could be playing with A.I. bot replica's from a given real site game server...after who notices when a toon isn't saying much and just seems to be grinding along as usual with the crowd, or puts in a much to the expectations of others quip?  For example, when the role playing seems front end bad you might wonder whether something were up...like why is this toon talking like a military person in operations suddenly when they were acting all civilian before?!  By the way, creating artificial social intelligence systems should seem at least a bit more complicated...after all the old generation, running into walls and not apparently moving further without a cross check to movement obstructions seems an obvious to the more obvious bad a.i. design.  Thus I'd suggest if you thought when you heard certain types of malicious online behavior colluding representing some population demographic, I'd also caution with respect to the nature of this anecdotal informal sampling...you might not only be a Targeted individual on a system that seems to have any group serving a social agenda, it could be an entirely faked a.i. script in chats designed to make you think something that really weren't going on in fact at all.

Technology

   My bit of a ramble today.  One because I've been lately something of a technology addict.  I am not sure if its purely for the sake of futurism and science fiction interests alone, or that I happen to be breaking more so from other things.

   So a go...if I had a wish list, it would go as follows:

1.  More free learning software for continuing education...I'm working to the ranks now closer to senior these days (at least have a couple decades potentially to go there).  More specifically tutoring software would be nice, especially targeting my strengths and weakness in any particular subject matter.  Sure I've run into some nice free android language learning software, but it would be nice for something like for college level math courses, generally I were thinking more like graduate level and beyond...maybe its a stretch in asking, and these days a Google query will yield lots of learning resource materials.  And then Wolfram Alpha now has a problem generator added into its site, that can provide testing over any desired subject matter.  Seems nice...the big leap though is artificial intelligence design which not only reads a problem for right or wrong answers but also able to read a given workflow process through a problem, and provide some assessment as to whether or not the student were on the right track to problem solving.

2.  Fancier cameras sure with more mega pixels...yeah but most photos regardless still look grainy funny with poor lighting, or for that matter artificial yellow lighting with normal house night lighting.  Improved camera low light image capturing is probably a bigger plus, and yeah the dual lens system for improvements in optical zooms are a nice...maybe to catch a high quality image of a bird on a branch someday from the smartphone?I liked some emphasis on improving camera images in general irrespective of lighting conditions.  I was thinking of some down sides on this...hmm...

3.  Someday may get around to installing Chrome OS on some hardware if I can...just need to apparently run a build on a linux system, and then transfer this iso to a usb stick...doesn't seem that hard anyways?

4.  More cloud based services...I at least like in theory what Adobe offers in terms of subscription services.  At least if you figured you weren't exactly in need of using services for any length of time to the extent that a subscription would amount to the cost of the software packages alone.  It could be an okay value?!   Especially with a more hit and run approach to software usages.  Secondly, it seems if one could get away from stand alone processor/resource consumption, and make this more network concentric, this might actually be better in any event especially given that next generation FIOS, at least this seems to add to the circularity of the argument that FIOS should be that much more necessary for the sake of cloud based applications?

5.  Next generation internet.  Sure its in my backyard.  I've parsed through the arguments:  do I really need super high speed FIOS?  It went alone the arguments do I need more then 15 gb of storage space.  Well as it turns out yes on the storage, and this extending beyond typified media.   But then as to higher bandwidth.  Well it seems, an old argument, I can now download a lifetimes worth of material in reasonable amounts of time (1 day with Google Fiber) but I'd never have enough time in reality to spend watching or reading this material.  But then I were thinking of the arguments I've offered in the above.  Mostly though with cloud based backups, it seems a bit nice especially if data storage is running in excess to 100 gigs (conventional internet cloud based backups likely amount to many many days here of waiting for a given download for this data amount).  Outside this sort of at a futuristic loss personally with what I could do with so much bandwidth.  Mostly similarities in pricing seems to offset any notion otherwise.  At the point one conceived that anything more then 20 megabytes should seem absurd, finds a similar lack of ability in conception, or this is to say, more data and higher data traffic flows should seem all likely in the future, but how and why is another matter.  Is it that any average person in the future would likely be managing fleets of things all at once in intense data networks.   And then in more enticing ways, had the future meant that poorer video resolutions of yesteryear on chat video hangouts were a thing of the past...keeping in mind, that low light conditions hadn't mattered and the video should seem something like a film.  Nonetheless with irony, I don't do video chats at all.  Listening to what must have been a back issue of Science Friday with the physicist Michio talking about neuro cognitive enhancements...maybe we'll be reading the library of congress in one day, and thus it seems something of the human limiting factor to information necessities are born.   In any event, the ever persistence and growth of smarter computing devices in and around the home one should imagine, speaks probably to seem greater need of higher speed data trafficking.  Not really much into VR.

6.  Project work collaboration social collaboration sites.  I sort of wondered about this the other day.  What if you could be some sort of provisional writer...sort of like a wiki contributor without contributing to wiki, and without dealing necessary with the same moderation processes found at wiki, but what if you could do this outside the fields of writing, say in art, music, media production, or other types of work endeavors.  What if you could get paid for some contribution part on a free lance basis working through a contracts collaboration process that weren't in housed with respect to any given institution.  Or at least if you were a free lance writer, what if you could ensure better that you were to get paid on a free lance contract type basis, and better able to find the work that you needed...maybe its a jumble of ideas here in any event.

7.  Cheaper transportation alternatives.  Certainly it may be in some near future, that there is the possibility that we have fabricated our own fixed wing aircraft.  One given the availability of carbon fiber based 3 d printing, secondly, a cheaper metals 3 d printing using more common metal materials (thanks to the Autodesk people working with a robotic manufacturing arm and attached welder that works literally with molten metals), and then finally having a plastics 3 d printer.  At least in some future day, it seems maybe the more average person is able to work and manipulate engine designs around with the fluid ease that master engineers these days manage...of course, this hadn't dealt with the central issue of transportation costs, namely, fuel these days is expensive enough, and noticeable to the extent that it should seem more of luxury to travel while the willpower of a given younger generation were more steadfast to the virtual of travel here (opting instead for social networking) as indicated trend wise, as opposed to getting a driver's license to visit that same friend.  I wonder if ironically that a form of globalism has ironically promoted in a way local fixation here, or that innately the desire to travel, by way of mysteries, is itself dying out.   Then you could actually pay more for a smaller car not less, and generally more if it were conceived that you were doing things that were perceived as 'healthier'.  Someday, though I wonder if I manage to create a DIY auto in some way, that hadn't exactly involved a garage, lots of grease and tools in the process.  Here while supposedly dating sites should attest to much degree of success, its hard to imagine the social aspect of transportation changing much?!  Not that a given local ism should be bad, or that cabin fever should at times represent/provide inspirations here through resourcefulness.

Thoughts on the Electric Car's future

    Some retrospective revisiting on this subject matter.  First, I'd mention having seen a recent film 'What killed the electric car'.  A few months ago, and while having heard some of the arguments provided concerning why the electric at times went through some decline in terms of use, it seems the film's arguments provided weren't enough in my mind having mustered clear reason for decline.  While the argument that generally most electric car range capacities are poor relative to gas fuel types are true (e.g, average electric cars if that might have around 86 miles before needing a recharge versus a gas car type having a several hundred mile range), and while re fueling times are much more compared to gas one's (e.g., even with fast charging charges could take in many typical cases around seven hours at best for refueling, compared with a refuel time in a gas type in a few minutes), solutions to these problems appeared to be neither the focus or intent of the documentary's director at that time, or at least I hadn't recalled any significant pursuit by the film's director in pursuit to these problems, other then having focused at a glance to the nature of battery technologies themselves...which up until now and likely into the future, focus much about the capacity constraints of the batteries in the volumetric and mass sense, alongside the battery's recharging characteristics which are likely to be problematic well into the future...although it seems I read somewhere that some designs allowed for potential recharging in around twenty minutes which should be far better then the hours mentioned before.

    While it appears Tesla motors has had a head start over its competitors over the range capacity of their given electric car (at least in one case with a range of approximately 380 miles), other manufacturer have been short in following suit, and then Tesla's car were much more expensive sporty car running likely beyond the means or desire of those more budget minded.  As it turns out even the least expensive electric car is likely to cost one 18,000 + U.S.D, and more likely this would be in the mid twenty thousand u.s. dollar range.   As to the benefits of the car itself.  If you were a short range commuter with predictable enough car usage for a given day, and hadn't relied on your car for extensive trips (e.g., business travel, delivery, and so forth), you'd find the electric probably great for your needs.  Although you might not do as well, planning spontaneous trips of any significant out of town distance, or likely you might be flying anyways.  If you had a family, obviously more ride sharing occupants would potentially cut into travel range, and this could be more problematic...the electric car might also be something that you had with a back up gas type nearby in case you had more trip planning to do for an unexpected given day.  So having solely an electric car might be a more worrisome prospect for some (especially given downtime for re fueling).  Even all this being said, I'd say the electric car still holds promise for a number of reasons.  Here are few things to consider:

1.  The electric car ounce for ounce has some nice advantages relative to the fuel car type.  Since you hadn't need haul a miniature power plant with you every where you went, automatically should raise fuel efficiency standards (the exchange of mass for battery to smaller electric engine I believe reduces overall mass load of the car, which means less power to deliver kinetically), and secondly the power generated (even from the dirtier of power plants) is likely to be more efficiently and cleanly generated relative to usage in a typical gas type (afterall, plants have workers and technicians that are there to maintain and look after a given power plant in terms of it efficiency in electrical power generation)...this isn't to say that some car owners are meticulous enough in exceeding the standards provided at a larger scale municipal source, but that the average car owner likely doesn't pay attention at the same levels means that inefficiencies are likely to build in a gas car type power plant relative to the larger scale industrial types.  Then prospectively future power plants could look only brighter in terms of efficiency and cleanness in terms as long as technology remains progressive here.

2.  Most people likely don't drive more then 80 miles in a day.  Thus even a primary commuter, the electric is fine outside of it perceptively limiting aspects.  We just like the idea of having more that we don't necessarily need?!

3.  Fast Car battery swap technology.  While I've mentioned in the past ideas like fast battery swapping systems, that apparently as in one 2013 case went broke as an investment, shouldn't render the idea dead either.  Anyway, the idea of the fast swapping battery system at least solves part of the range time spent refueling problem...while at a glance I couldn't comment on the investment strategies in detail, perhaps, investment capital devotion solely to swapable technology to the exclusion of the thrust of the electric car market was a big mistake...that is, over investment of swapable batteries (for reserve) without a fleet of EV (electric vehicles) for supply was part of this mistake, alongside poor consumer education.  Tesla at least liked the idea of the fast swap battery and integrated this design into at least one of its car types...if Tesla has invested anything into the idea of EV refueling (battery swap) station this would be far more modest to thrust of its main market which is to satiate the needs of the consumer which uses the car and primarily handle an EV's recharging.  It seems that eventually modest investment  in building swap battery infrastructure could lead to the eventual outcome that more consumers are educated well enough to utilize this type of fuel infrastructure solving the inherent time to refuel problem which were noted as taking around '90' seconds, or in other words, less time spent refueling relative to filling up a gas car.  It seems reasonable that an 86 mile ranged car consumer might be willing to pay around $15 for a new fully charged electric battery swap.  And then this could lead to an added benefit of cost liabilities insurance system for batteries...consumers would generally have one less liability to worry about for the given lifetime of the car which could be likely the first to wear out and deteriorate which were the battery (and this likely is a big cost liability).  The key is excellent consumer use forecasting to determine how many EV users in a given location would need to use and access swap technology.

4.  Road integrated power transmission systems.  It seems when I lived up in Seattle there were any number of electric buses already operating daily through the city.  Of course, I weren't exactly sure if the buses had on board extensive battery systems, but I were sure that they had a power supply source, namely electric cables built up over the roads that allowed for the buses to access these via a tethered link system.  It seems if something correspondingly could be developed safely for EV consumers (whether wirelessly transmitted or a linked wired system) that another problem of continuous power could be solved.  Namely integrating power systems into our roadways hadn't exactly seemed entirely out of the ordinary, and generally given EV's onboard batteries where consumers traveled off grid shouldn't mean that all roadways need be electrified.  Analogously, while the internet hadn't solely depended on FIOS investments from individual corporations/businesses alone to grow the entirety of it system in terms of network growth, here governmental investments have played much role here, the same could be said for the advocacy of power lines built into our given roadway systems (e.g., interstates and secondary highway system, alongside urban/suburban/rural roadways).

What killed the electric car?  In the past, honestly, it were the will power of industries, not the nature of the technology that were inherently flawed here as I see it.  In any event, I hadn't seen any reason why the EV couldn't have the same types of unlimited ranges that gas types are given (with refueling capabilities) and/or that the EV couldn't be better then gas types in terms of economy of fuel and time spent traveling.    

When re entering the United States from Mexico

Drug warriors kidnap and sexually assault

Apparently that drug sniffing canines are not only sometimes wrong with their noses so are Border Customs agents in their handling.  No Drugs found, a woman handed a bill for her assault.

Basically for the agents embarrassment of finding nothing, they wanted the woman suspect to sign a consent release waiver signing off on the ordeal, and they'd waive the charges.  She refused and got charged for it.