the private sector will buy these cars

sonicsrini / 2008-04-17 05:20:40

list all of the metanotes advantages

a key slide for your presentation

sonicsrini / 2008-04-17 05:23:38

evogrid - an l-system forest

  • herbivore simulation and a carniver simulation developed separately

sonicsrini / 2008-04-17 05:02:15

here is a new note

these problems that sat in the way can be addressed

sonicsrini / 2008-04-17 05:20:09

greener

  • cars: 3500 btu/passenger-mile
  • bus: 3500
  • trolleybus: 3200
  • light rail: 1500 to 7000
    • NYC: 3300
  • heavy rail: 500-700

lightweight electric trike: 100

cyclist: 145 (beefeater: about 6000)

cars are getting better but public transit isn’t!

sonicsrini / 2008-04-17 05:21:30

school of fish test

go ahead drive into that school of fish and try to hit one!

in scubadiving you can’t touch the fish.

this is his Turing Test

sonicsrini / 2008-04-17 05:24:42

the cost of americans driving cars = 10% of GNP

  • 60% of LA real estate belongs to automobiles
  • generate 25% of greenhouse gases
  • death toll is huge
  • self-delivery = vehicles that can deliver themselves to you like enterprise
    • robotaxi
    • whistlecar
    • cellphone summoned
      • if what you want isn’t close you’ll get something
  • the right vehicle for the trip

sonicsrini / 2008-04-17 05:15:44

accident-avoiding car

hard to crash

sonicsrini / 2008-04-17 05:24:27

flash players will not relay traffic for other flash players

  • we’re shipping point to point on 10.0
  • this will not run on your iPhone
  • learn the actionscript model for talking to flash media server
  • the API isn’t very efficient for sending large #’s of bytes.
  • they’re adding the speaks codec instead of the

sonicsrini / 2008-04-17 05:40:11

TIME FOR AN APOLLO PROJECT

a major leader must declare the charge

  • barriers
  • downsides
  • engineering changes
  • deliverbots
  • www.templetons.com/brad/robocars

sonicsrini / 2008-04-17 05:25:35

minicar is not going to sell

  • nobody believes that they’ll meet our needs

parks itself, charges/refuels itself

  • park very densely in valet
  • solves the battery problem
  • experimental fuels allowed
  • far less infrastructure

sonicsrini / 2008-04-17 05:18:34

adobe development tools

FLEX is the way to go.

this app was written in FLEX in a few hours

works btw flash media player and servers

lossy delivery of video & encryption & prioritization is possible

there will be no way to create peer to peer without rendezvous nodes

sonicsrini / 2008-04-17 05:44:35

flash player 10.0

  • coming soon
  • live video coming from he back of the room over a peer to peer connection
  • no server at all.
  • over 384 frame rate
  • scroll down and you can see the roundtriptime in milliseconds between peers

create stuff in actionscript to do this

  • peer to peer connection
  • there needs to be a flash media server or a hosted service cloud that is hosted on a distributed peer to peer system which adobe might host

sonicsrini / 2008-04-17 05:33:47

adobe guy

  • prioritization of data flows
  • he sold that to adobe
  • this is a really cool demo he’s letting us in on

sonicsrini / 2008-04-17 05:32:53

three supports for big bang theory

  • motion of galaxies away from each other
    • ultimately no longer observable
  • cosmic background radiation
    • ultimately so diffuse it won’t be observable
  • relative qualities of light and matter

sonicsrini / 2008-04-17 06:16:36

event horizon

we can’t see past the possible range of light given its speed.

the universe is bigger than we can see.

90%+ of the matter in the universe is not accounted for.

sonicsrini / 2008-04-17 06:22:28

cosmic milestones

  • cosmic inflation occurs
  • 100 seconds: deuterium and helium are created
  • 400K years: microwave background is released
  • 8b years: expansion begins to accelerate
  • 100b years = one supergalaxy
  • 100trillion years – the last stars burn out. the galaxy later collapses into a black hole

what are you waiting for? time’s a wastin’! LIVE NOW!

sonicsrini / 2008-04-17 06:18:50

aurora biofuels - microalgae farming

  • take energy of sun and convert it into biomass
  • dig a pond into the ground
  • add nutrients
    • fertilizer
    • agricultural runoff
    • municipal waste
  • add an algae
  • they take the CO2 from the sun and multiply themselves
  • turns into biomass via photosynthesis

sonicsrini / 2008-04-17 16:24:30

algae-to-biofuels process

  • inputs
    • sunlight
    • sea water
    • fertilizer
    • CO2
  • leads to algae cultivation
  • leads to harvesting
  • leads to extraction
  • OUTPUT
    • lipid processing
      • biodiesel
      • biojetfuel
      • bioheating oil
    • purification packaging
      • animal feed
      • fertilizer

sonicsrini / 2008-04-17 16:26:17

solar energy conversion strategies

  • plants
    • co2 + water = sugar + oxygen
    • takes a bunch of energy
    • leads to fuels that are easy to store
    • photosynthesis is only 1-4% efficient
  • solar cell
    • flow of photons
    • converted via photovoltaics
    • leads to electricity
    • 10-40% efficient
    • but electricity is hard to store

sonicsrini / 2008-04-17 16:27:57

why are plants inefficient?

theoretical max efficiency = 25%

  • but they can only use a certain portion of the spectrum, only 45% of the spectrum

algae are more efficient than plants.

sonicsrini / 2008-04-17 16:29:42

algae trumps plants

terrestrial plants

  • need fresh water
  • need arable land
  • biomass productivity in this range is 1-20 ton/hectare
  • most biomass is cellulosic and therefore unusable for fuel
  • most plants are already used for food for humans and cows and such
    • including the water and land
    • you can’t strain the food chain
    • tortilla crisis in mexico

sonicsrini / 2008-04-17 16:30:58

aurora biofuels

they can keep the microalgae ponds clear of other stuff = their patent.

sonicsrini / 2008-04-17 16:49:34

matthew kaufman

  • he writes enrypted peer-to-peer

sonicsrini / 2008-04-17 17:35:40

isps don't like peer-to-peer

no control over content and blocking

sonicsrini / 2008-04-17 17:36:38

IPv4 = a huge address space (32 bits)

but what happens when we run out?

  • in the old days we’d just hand them out to MIT and Stanford etc (class A address)
  • class B addresses used to be easy to get
    • africa is outnumbered by this room
  • class C = a LAN addressing

classful is bad because it’s too easy to get too many addresses and too many small networks got allocated.

  • it became harder to justify a class B

routing table size

everyone has to know the routing for everybody

sonicsrini / 2008-04-17 17:37:03

microalgae use

  • they only need “waste water”
  • they only need marginal land
  • significant portion of the biomass is lipids & sugars that are directly usable for biofuel

sonicsrini / 2008-04-17 16:32:32

tortilla crisis

tortillas are kept in safes

how can agriculture actually feed the massive fuel market? agriculture is NOT as big as the oil industry.

converting all the bio into fuel would only satisfy 5% of the demand (1-2% of the diesel demand)

sonicsrini / 2008-04-17 16:33:44

hugely cheaper

no relaying media through a flash server

will be used for porn

the CPU load this requires

sonicsrini / 2008-04-17 05:42:35

IPSEC

  • autoconfiguration
  • too many addresses to do port scanning
  • no NAT, so peer-to-peer is easier
    • IT doesn’t like this
    • Firewalls won’t go away
  • doesn’t fix routing table issues
  • doesn’t fix multi-homing
    • connecting to two ISPs so you’re never down
    • app sw can’t deal with that
    • all your connections drop (TCP)

sonicsrini / 2008-04-17 17:48:21

feedstocks for biodiesel production

  • soy
  • rapeseed (canola)
  • sunflower
  • corn
  • palm
  • jatropha = a seed bearing weed that yields oil that grows wild
  • microalgae

sonicsrini / 2008-04-17 16:34:50

flash player = 15m downloads/day on release

more penetration than windows = 98% of browsers

more than quicktime, more than PDF

communications law enforcement = law that lets them have ability to wiretap at will

sonicsrini / 2008-04-17 05:38:23

three key questions

what type of algae is good at producing oil?

  • collection
  • screening
  • characterization
  • 1860-1987

how do algae produce oil?

  • biochemistry
  • physiology
  • roswell, NM – proof of concept for large scale open ponds operation
  • 1985-1990
  • how should we design and operate a future algae farm?

how can we improve on nature?

  • biotechnology

sonicsrini / 2008-04-17 16:41:52

microalgae = 30-40% more efficient than current

two schools of thought

  • photoreactor = closed systems
    • can’t be justified economically
  • open ponds = more like farming
    • this is the one that aurora likes
    • more costeffective

sonicsrini / 2008-04-17 16:36:25

10% of the sonora desert is the target for efficiency

they want to produce enough B100 to replace US diesel consumption

  • right now to make enough you’d need 1/3 of Arizona with microalgae
  • their target is 10% of the sonora desert, not 1/3 of Arizona

sonicsrini / 2008-04-17 16:39:42

"Classless" addressing

a reaction to routing table size bloat

this let you customize your block size to your application

reserved expansion during assignment

led to massive growth of internet

  • higher education
  • big business
  • smaller business
  • consumers
  • lightswitches

but it’s still not enough bits.

sonicsrini / 2008-04-17 17:39:30

in 2010 there won't be any more IPv6

  • unfortunately everyone has already switched to IPv6 exclusively
  • 2010 is here soon
  • totally incompatible IPv4
    • IPv4 addresses are not a subset of IPv6
  • there are reserved spaces but almost the entire address space is usable

sonicsrini / 2008-04-17 17:41:13

biota.org

a multidisciplinary visionary conference series ‘97-01

sonicsrini / 2008-04-17 04:54:54

does information just sit there?

or does it have a will and behavior of its own?

sure we GATHER information on topics…

but certain information COMES TO FIND YOU.

sonicsrini / 2008-04-17 17:45:04

we the smart

we make FRAMEWORKS for information.

information sometimes then just flows into the framework we created.

sonicsrini / 2008-04-17 17:47:05

when will we switch?

when the pain of using IPv6 is lower

  • IPv4 is so much easier and more compatible right now
  • IPv6 networks -> v6-to-v4 NAT to the IPv4 net

100 trillion years of slack after transition

sonicsrini / 2008-04-17 17:57:43

it is IPv6

whatever you’re shipping today has to ship to the IPv4 internet. the great IPv6 experiment.

nobody turns it on unless they have an app that says turn it on.

the primary application on the internet is web browsing

this opens a tcp connection based on its name and downloads it

the data that comes down isn’t different based on IPv4 or IPv6. the only reason to change is that the IPv4’s are out. TCP-prime isn’t happening.

sonicsrini / 2008-04-17 18:02:31

POZAR SEZ

128 bit vs 32 bit is just slower.

sonicsrini / 2008-04-17 18:10:27

how do ISP's feel?

  • lots more addresses is better, right?
  • routing table entry grows even faster
  • routing tables take 4x more memory (built with CAM)
  • let’s assume ISP’s can absorb the cost of upgrading
  • high-performance routers on the v6 tip don’t exist yet

so we all just switch

  • servers & clients are converted to IPv6 internet
  • every DNS entry changed to match
  • every app that’s not IPv6 is fixed
    • server apps
  • client apps
  • CALEA logging! = dbase needs to understand these formats
    • printers
    • firewalls

so we run both IPv4 and IPv6 on the same machine

sonicsrini / 2008-04-17 17:49:59

dual stack

IPv6 Internet is slower

  • or not connected
  • or not present at all

leads to them turning IPv6 off!

there are no routers yet

you should not put IPv6 addresses in the DNS to preserve ability for IPv4 users

sonicsrini / 2008-04-17 17:52:49

get old IPv4 addresses used

these may or may not be property

economic incentives

  • release unused addresses
  • provides months to years of slack
  • holders of a thing that is increasing exponentially in value sell it when? NEVER

every new network added still needs at least one IPv4 address

  • this is called IPv4 NAT or ISP NAT
  • a NAT is cost-free to deploy

sonicsrini / 2008-04-17 17:55:31

XML -> rules

environmental variables

ground rules

terminator 9000

sonicsrini / 2008-04-17 05:03:00

TIM POZAR

bandwidth used is going up exponentially

it’s very expensive to buy this stuff (cisco vs juniper)

cisco created scarcity by destroying old gear so they can sell new gear at a profit.

metainterfaces ?

people will use as much as the pipe gives them.

the highest connection you can get is 40Gpbs

the next will be a 100Gbps connection

this backbone traffic will require massive iron

sonicsrini / 2008-04-17 18:09:49

big rock stars and political candidates have FAN CLUBS

Facebook knows its business

do you merit a fan club? do you have 5000 customers?

what i’m doing now:

introducting social networking to people in their 50’s

(this is “debby hindus” talking)

here we are at asilomar: we are a community.

there’s a dozen social networking choices which has led to paralysis

everyone is not connected to other people

there are people trying to solve the problem: social graph.

you’re part of my social graph.

sonicsrini / 2008-04-17 17:04:23

we're about to run into a major brick wall.

these are speed bumps.

told this to john markoff @ nytimes.

this is ALL a commodity.

  • there is very little profit to be made
  • doubleclick and google are going to be making the profit
  • the money isn’t going into infrastructure of the internet – it’s going into Google’s pockets.
    • they’re buying fiber that is going to go into their backbone.

sonicsrini / 2008-04-17 18:05:35

Global Connection

only had a 10gbps on backbone, but SOLD 10gbps to their customers! LIES!

sonicsrini / 2008-04-17 18:13:14

multipliers

  • The Uptime Institute

slim profit margins

only cheap marketing

sonicsrini / 2008-04-17 18:19:05

eric allman

  • john locke
    • identity depends on consciousness
  • eric Erickson
    • personal identity like gender identity

identity components

  • naming
  • role
  • authentication
  • reputation

sonicsrini / 2008-04-17 18:34:12

above.net

put a quarter of a billion dollars into a facility and then sold it for pennies on the dollar

web 1.0 we can make a bunch of money

two years later they were out of business

then the speculators bought up their datacenters cheap

if you try to go out and build a facility right now that’s $1000-4000 per square foot to build a co-lo ($20m for a typical center)

as you increase the power density you have to put more money into that squarefootage

the demand for space is forever.

each space they open up gets bought up in six months.

people are making more sensible decisions.

the demand for space is jacking up rent.

a lot of houses that are near a railroad line are getting bought up.

the railway lines have all the fiber lines along them.

if you’re going to have to spend $20m on a space you won’t get ROI for 12 months at least

sonicsrini / 2008-04-17 18:14:23

what is "good enough" quality?

“one million hours” ? overengineering

how do you assure consistent delivery?

sonicsrini / 2008-04-17 22:39:42

Cisco Company Loyalty

what do they care about from cradle to grave?

  • perceptions
  • attitudes
  • behaviors
  • all spring from experiences

various good things on attitude

  • customer focused image
  • oerall satisfaction
  • technologically advanced image
  • value
  • price
  • reliable/dependable products image
  • helps business succed image

sonicsrini / 2008-04-17 22:35:09

what impacts experiences?

  • pre-sales channel
  • ordering
  • post-sales

sonicsrini / 2008-04-17 22:36:12

everybody bought a new car every year once

“a car was old after two or three years”

ppl were going to buy a new car no matter what

no reason to engineer quality

cisco does build some products to self-obsolete

sonicsrini / 2008-04-17 22:41:43

the new product process

  • concept
  • plan
  • develop
  • validate
  • launch
  • sustain
  • end of life

sonicsrini / 2008-04-17 22:52:38

customer satisfaction

get them to their BONUS.

  • customer satisfaction
  • driving a culture of quality
    • customer intimacy

sonicsrini / 2008-04-17 22:54:32

customer driven HW reliability targets

“where to set the bar?”

beat competition

consistent history

consistent performance

consistent availability

all avoiding overengineering.

sonicsrini / 2008-04-17 22:43:34

watch the competition's satisfaction scores

lots of branches in the logic

insight into custsat with our products and competitive products on the same scale

analyze everyone’s marketing claims

sonicsrini / 2008-04-17 22:46:21

set targets

always measure the real world against a pre-set target.

sonicsrini / 2008-04-17 22:49:22

customer experience metrics

measure the customer experience

  • dashboards of customer experience
  • what is their return rate.
  • he’d get an email automatically when it was robotic assistance

sonicsrini / 2008-04-17 22:53:06

key drivers for experience

what does reliability mean?

  • mean time between failures
  • defects per million
  • annualize failure rate
  • availability
  • do i have to touch it?
  • if i have to make a change it does what i expect it to do

how do you know what customers need?

sonicsrini / 2008-04-17 22:37:54

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municipal wi-fi failed – why?

  • esme the pajama entrepreneur

the business rationale is doomed.

  • he turned down a job wiring up denver – because it would fail.

sonicsrini / 2008-04-18 07:10:50

networking 3.0

  • a standard metalanguage in which you can communicate
    • the people
    • their environments
    • their types of users
    • their types of data

they negotiate the best way to communicate with one another

sonicsrini / 2008-04-18 07:34:21

microcontrollers should be networked

in the future you won’t be able to buy a non-wireless house component.

my attic fan needs to figure out what it needs to do tomorrow.

it needs to find a wireless node that can hit the ‘net

then it needs to find out what time it is, where it is, and what the weather forecast is for tomorrow

based on the forecast the fan will behave accordingly

sonicsrini / 2008-04-18 07:35:42

upstream vs downstream bandwidth

comcast cable lies about the floor number then say “it bursts up to 15” but it doesn’t.

“16-20mbps if you’re lucky”

they can’t promise that end-to-end

sonicsrini / 2008-04-18 16:13:49

modularity vs efficiency

we could give you a network that’s fully netneutral but you’d be paying a mess of money.

sonicsrini / 2008-04-18 16:11:09

not all traffic is equal

wherever pipes come together there’ll be congestion

voice has to get there within a few milliseconds or we get into walkie-talkie mode

everyone should be able to pay the same amount

there’s lying by comcast: rampant fraud in advertising

sonicsrini / 2008-04-18 16:12:17

cut back on the provisioning cost

the negotiation attorneys cost too much

  • paid exorbitant rates for talking about something that should be free

sonicsrini / 2008-04-18 16:21:06

the wiring is the hard part

labor creates an environment of scarcity

the network should evolve without this army of people.

sonicsrini / 2008-04-18 16:15:45

the cost of wiring will vary

rural will have to pay more

unless it’s subsidized: “rural electrification act”

we don’t currently believe that internet is that important

we will badly predict the technology

any time you have big piles of money other people get in the middle of that flow

ten years from now the price will plummet

it’ll take that long to get a subsidy passed.

sonicsrini / 2008-04-18 16:26:33

how do you settle between people?

it’s not the model of the internet to do that

in order for an app to work you have to pay ?

then we’ll only have porn.

sonicsrini / 2008-04-18 16:18:49

bittorrent

  • your 3gb download comes from all over the world
  • “i’ve got this file and i want to broadcast it to the world”
  • the ISP can’t find these volunteers
  • Bittorrent clients say “i’m in the following cloud, let’s be friends”
  • p4p is an effort to create an ISP-friendly P2P system
  • at&t won’t even let us run bittorrent inside the company
  • accidental properties
  • buildout lags innovation
  • we need to provide a lot more bandwidth
    • bittorrent means – lots of bandwidth out from homes too

sonicsrini / 2008-04-18 16:05:13

bittorrent figured it out

each gets a fragment of the file.

sports need realtime compression

it takes less time to write software than it takes to convince comcast to do anything

if you look at composite connectivity from the edge, the ISP model is a bad model compared to a digital compositing.

the protocols and the digital packets can be composited.

sonicsrini / 2008-04-18 16:08:15

robots

robots that will crawl through sewers dragging a cable behind them

the cost of deploying cable will drop faster than moore’s law

the problem is incentives

  • verizon has no incentive to do a good job

sonicsrini / 2008-04-18 16:16:44

network neutrality

  • the best food grew near the outhouse (?!)
  • it’s very hard to sound sane here
  • $1000/house for fiber is reasonable now
    • and market forces make it cheaper
  • it isn’t the fiber that costs money; it’s the people
  • perceived benefit
    • sidewalks > fiber for now
    • that will change
  • $1000 is only expensive if you don’t see the value of it

sonicsrini / 2008-04-18 16:03:07

identity is either permanent or transient

some parts are permanent

  • i’m indian

some parts are transient

  • i’m hungry

sonicsrini / 2008-04-17 18:35:49

let's not let them own it

you’re not supposed to peek inside the envelope.

they do and that’s a real issue

the cable franchise rules

make ownership problematic

the FCC did a decent job in the Madison River case

very much a monopoly question

they were trying to block VoIP – denied

sometimes they rip the wire out

sonicsrini / 2008-04-18 16:26:49

features in adult are drop-dead obvious

user comments on content on DVD’s

flash players lead to looping (they have a patent)

recommendation engine

sonicsrini / 2008-04-17 03:35:00

growing gardens in cyberspace

growing gardens in cyberspace

sonicsrini / 2008-04-17 04:55:34

artificial evolution

nobody assembled the world.

on computers you can replicate this

carl sims gave his computer some basic parts and then let the creatures do whatever – blocks, joints, nervous system (sense angles of joints or contact and the nerves can make the muscles move.

the computer decides.

sonicsrini / 2008-04-17 04:56:33

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MailFlipz is the email sending system that guarantees that your bulk email will get into your recipients’ inbox the first time – every time. That’s because instead of your bulk mail trying to push its way past all of the barriers and hurdles that the ISPs put up, your email is placed directly in their inbox!

Say Goodbye Spam Filters Too!

With MailFlipz, your mailing list mail never gets run through a spam filter before it goes to your recipients. In fact, your email doesn’t even go through their ISP at all – it just goes straight into your users’ inbox!

How Can We Do This?

At this point you’re probably saying to yourself “This sounds too good to be true! How do they do that?”

We do it using our unique, proprietary MailFlipz technology, which is layered on top of one of the most widely-deployed and stable open source publishing platforms in the world: RSS.

Here’s how it works:

First, it’s important to understand how email traditionally works. When you send email, it goes from your computer, out to your ISP (Internet service provider). Your ISP then transmits it to your recipient’s ISP. That’s usually where things can go horribly wrong – either your recipient’s ISP has a spam filter that eats your email, or your recipient has a spam filter that eats your email, or it goes into the junk folder at either the ISP or on your recipient’s computer. Sometimes their ISP accepts it and then doesn’t deliver it anywhere, it just disappears without a trace! And of course sometimes it doesn’t even make it that far – your own ISP may decide to junk it instead of transmit it, or your email may go through several intermediate ISPs or anti-spam appliances or other route hops, any of which can trap your email and stop it from getting to your users.

But with MailFlipz, your email doesn’t have to run the gamut of spam filters, junk folders, and black holes waiting to send your email off-course.

With MailFlipz you simply add a single email address to any of your already-existing mailing lists. As a MailFlipz sender you can then offer subscriptions to your mailings both the old fashioned way – email fraught with peril – or via MailFlipz – guaranteed delivery every time, and your email just shows up in the inbox of all of your MailFlipz enabled recipients – like magic!

The magic is in that one additional email address that you add to your mailing list. When a copy of your mailing list email goes to that special MailFlipz address, we store a copy of that email on our MailFlipz server. Then, all of your MailFlipz enabled users fetch your email automatically, from our server – directly into their inbox. No spam filters, no junk folders, no kidding!

Besides offering the MailFlipz subscription option to new subscribers at sign-on, MailFlipz is an excellent alternative to confirming or reconfirming existing mailing lists! Just add the MailFlipz subscription link for your mailing list in each email, and encourage your users to move to a MailFlipz subscription option! Users who want to receive your email will be eager to use MailFlipz so that they don’t ever have to worry about losing a single one of your emails to spam filters and junk folders!

Want to see it in action?

Click on this link, or copy it and add it to your favorite RSS reader.

Of course, your MailFlipz subscribers won’t have to use an RSS reader (but they could, if they wanted to).

MailFlipz subscribers have the choice of having their MailFlipz subscriptions go directly into their existing email inbox, to a small desktop inbox (available for all Windows systems), or to a companion browser window inbox whenever they check their Hotmail, Yahoo, or Gmail account! (This last is an excellent way to get around the problems associated with mailing to Hotmail and other webmail subscribers!)

MailFlipz is currently in beta. If you would like to sign up to be a beta tester for MailFlipz, please send a note to info@MailFlipz.com.

The MailFlipz technology is free to all beta test senders for the duration of the beta period. Beta testers will also get special consideration on post-beta pricing.

© The Institute for Spam and Internet Public Policy (ISIPP), 2007

sonicsrini / 2008-04-18 04:26:49

h.264 files

  • iphone, ipod, appletv, zune, netgear

sonicsrini / 2008-04-17 03:35:50

the take

from 8% to 25% for ccbill

sonicsrini / 2008-04-17 03:34:43

Map out the ECOSYSTEM

  • Niche: suicidegirls, kink.com
  • industry Media = asacp, avn, biz
  • Network = topbucks, pridebucks
  • Reviews = jane says, the best porn reviewed
  • Video = aevbn, hotmovies.com
  • traffic brokers: wildline, trafficdude
  • advocacy = free speech coalition
  • billing = epoch and ccbill

sonicsrini / 2008-04-17 03:33:03

bruce@damer.com

force biology to create basic definitions of living systems that don’t exist yet.

morphology.

creatures are competing for food blocks.

human doesn’t choose the winner – the computer does

the motivation is that this one got the food

very directed by a rule.

sonicsrini / 2008-04-17 05:04:51

what mailflipz looks like

sonicsrini / 2008-04-18 04:29:16

big bang theory may not be recognizable to us someday

  • we are losing the chemical clues of the big bang

sonicsrini / 2008-04-17 06:17:17

Adult Hosting Companies

  • flyingcroc = sextracker
  • all of their network connections are 10gbit

we want you to download the content, consume it, and get off the servers.

we log every single download that occurs
  • what was the origin AS and what is yours?
  • then we can find out who is cheating
  • also which ISPs are a better route

they have to manually adjust our routers.

sonicsrini / 2008-04-17 03:36:25

Flash Mob

they get off on archiving, not just watching the content!

sonicsrini / 2008-04-17 03:38:03

graphs from the data

TRAFFIC SHAPING from a particular origin ISP:

  • what is the speed that users are getting?
    • dark green = good = comcast
    • British Telecom however does traffic shaping – you can see from the red in the graph

speed of your site is going to be key purchase decision

so they try out Cogent vs Level3

avg filesize = 450MB = takes a long time to download

sonicsrini / 2008-04-17 03:38:45

in a simulated lake

the computer makes random changes until one can swim in the lake

then they choose the best swimmer and improve on that.

then they change the goal – WALK.

sonicsrini / 2008-04-17 04:58:05

is this working?

yes it is.

sonicsrini / 2008-04-23 04:50:41

we need to fix that bug

sonicsrini / 2008-04-23 04:50:52

the text is red on red

and therefore invisible.

sonicsrini / 2008-04-23 04:51:39

how is this?

sonicsrini / 2008-04-23 04:51:16