Brian Abbott

Too Legit 2 quit.

If youre all legit, then Turn off 24/7 convo for six weeks and see what you hear. You won't hear anything about your three favorite topics - gauranteed. You might even get a draft outline of a book.

Panoptica Security & Defense

Panoptica - A project I intend to begin devoting more time to. The name is inspired from an architectural anomaly called the Panopticon, which was a design for a prison invented in the late 1800's by a man named Jeremy Bentham (not the same man who did the PIC Micro TCP/IP Stack). The central concept employed in the architecture was that of total, omni-present awareness of the prison occupants. Today, in our digital world, we might call that "Total Information Awareness" - this is the concept that I employ in all systems design - capture everything that moves and, then figure our what and where its useful and how best to integrate it later on. Employ a google-esque peta-scale backend capable of the necessary throughput and capacity available in both local as well as cloud configurations then, build the application environment on top of that substrate, that foundation. If you start with Iron and Steel no matter what your purpose, you will always be able to construct that skyscraper that illuminates the city skyline. To that end, Panoptica will use advanced, ultra-aesthetic information visualization wherever possible employing a parallel processing backend and a relative-layout and positioning engine so that, for every edge connected to a hyper-graph/fractal data node, positioning calculations have already been partially computed at the moment data is inserted or an edge is bound into the graph. This ensures exceedingly fast presentation capabilities with beautiful, dazzling aesthetics. Custom FPGA and ASIC hardware will power the backend, for an experience second to none - a candyland of gleeming, glistening,  aesthetic beauty that at the same time, will keep us, at all levels in our society, free from fear of the digital ghosts and vampires that hunt our hearts and minds in the middle of the night.   

The first set of features will be geared toward both personal and corporate monitoring of their Cellular Telephones, the activity being sent to and from each cell-phone at a general, high level. The world needs this now more than ever for both Cororations, which already have access to these kinds of advanced monitoring systems, albeit at a very steep price, as well as individuals, who are the ones without the tools or knowledge to be forewarned. I recently reviewed my cellular bill and found that, like clockwork, somehow my phone was sending MASSIVE -- MASSIVE -- SERIOUSLY MASSIVE amounts of data each and every day. First in the early AM (around 9) and, then again around 1/2 AM at night. By massive I mean 200 - 300 MB of raw data transmission. That's roughly a feature length film when encoded as MP4 or AA4 data formats. Where this data went and what it contained, I can only guess but, I only have had "ring-tone" applications and games installed and, I've never performed tasks on my phone on a routine basis like that. We've raced toward this glistening panacea that is technology without a care or concern in the world and nothing but instant pleasure and gratification held in our hearts and minds. It's time we wake up, personal and, more importantly, national security have been put in Jeapordy.

Brian Abbott

Global Unity - Technical Foundation

Global Unity

Utilizing Advanced Neuro-Adaptive Satellite Technology to create a NooSphere, where a new kind of humanity will emerge and we will all be able to co-exist, as a hybrid-singular being.

 (with narrative and explanation to follow)

US Satellite Surveillance Capabilities

Ever been harassed 24/7 by a Government Satellite? Its real and, it's a living nightmare that goes beyond the imagination. The things that can be done have blown my mind while keeping me in a living hell of fear and agony. Since the first shot was fired, I thought I would escape it but, I see now quite clearly where this is headed. The technology is lethal. It ends with an early grave. There is no stopping it, there is no prosecuting it, if you intercept it, you've broken the law and will face jailtime. You cant escape it and you cant defeat it. You just have to die, quietly.

What kind of a country are we becoming? Where is our Nation going? Where is this headed? Why did we design, develop, and deploy these things? A lethal killing force that cannott be seen or heard or touched or tasted. Something that can bubble your brain and extremites as you're laying down, Ice your heart and mind, in the middle of the night, only to prevent you from sleeping while slowly weakening your body - a very slow, painful, nightmarish death, delivered from 22,000 miles away. Something that can seperate the makeup of your food, only to charge selected matter to then galvanize it into a trance-inducing drug, to be used against you. You cant tell anyone, even local and federal law enforcement will look at you in total disbelief, as if you're insane. They're barely aware. If it happens to you, its hell and, well, all indications are that it ends with a very early death.Unless of course, there's "cover" via old age or a prior condition. Then death will come swiftly but, whoever this is, seems to love to let their victims know its coming.

If you find yourself here, first know it likely ends in death and proceed accordingly. The system is designed to convince your mind you will make it, that you're strong, only to keep you going, so that your subconcious mind will continue to take it's suggestions and it can remain in control. Once you've reached that realization, capture as much as you can electronically and start making as much noise as you can. If you dont, the Satellite will gain control of your subconcious - your motivation, fear, anxiety - once that happens, your under complete control and, you wont utter a single word, unless you're otherwise directed.

It's hell. You get to watch yourselve die. You get to feel it, hanging in every moment. I cant imagine it's very commonplace but, it's what Ive "ran into". Unless things change, I will do whatever I can to capture, prove, and present these statements. In addition, I will develop and present a plan - one that presents the potential positive use of these technologies, how we can use it to come closer together, to preserve and protect peace and harmony among mankind.

Hopefully this accomplishment will happen before the Brain-Washing/Mind-Control Program runs its course. Eitherway, citizens of the world need to know that her Nation-States posses powers capable of such great good and, at the same time, such great evil.

 

BACK TO THE FUTURE

INTERESTING.... When I originally posted this, it contained the text above everything: "I was told to write: ".... I'll update the original posting.

 

00:05:37   Not Yesterday, It concerns my future!
00:05:39   I need the information now, before the close!

00:05:37   It concerns my future!
00:05:39   I need the information now, before the close!
00:05:42   In 10 minutes, it's history! At 4:00, I'm a dinosaur!

Someone needs to start learning a thing or two about Information Security. For some reason I have no motivation to study it but... better to be safe than sorry. It seems like I've been getting hacked into day and night lately. My emails to important contacts like my IP Attorney dont show up, a program used to receive updated log activity in realtime, called tail was replaced with an empty file during a time when I was in an active rush to get my work done. 

Hello neighbor?

One of my neighbors seriously creeps me out. He always looks up at my room and, tonight I heared him saying "I don't care what I have to do just as long as I don't get caught!" - weird!! I'm sure he's an okay guy and meant it in some kind of an innocent or joking context but, it just makes you wonder, who am I living next to??

Oliver

I have a new dog! His names Oliver, he's really great! He's a Great Dane with brindle coloring, which is vaguely similiar to tiger striping. Here is a picture of him and Sarah on the night we got him.

Google Docs Scripting

http://www.cio.com/article/print/493563

Interesting. Sounds like the VBA interface for Word and Excel. That would enable companies that have built Line of Business (LoB) platforms on top of the Word/Excel Office platform, to legitamately look at Google Docs as a viable small-business document-publishing option. The next obvious question is buy do they want to keep their information on a server. Microsoft is releasing the equivalent with the next rev of Office so, it becomes a validated option. Plus, it's probably safer to keep it on their equipment than their own. 

-Brian Abbott

I want this book.

This looks like a very good book on Banking: The Business of Investment Banking. This is admitedly a huge gap in my understanding of the financial markets that I need to resolve. Hopefully this book should do the trick (Or at least help to identify a set of known unknowns).

A new day is dawning.

I feel that a fundamental shift is underway in the world of Information Technology and it is being lead by a company known better for their theft of existing technologies then their innovation and invention of new ones: Microsoft. For almost 20 years now, software interfaces have been built around the same principles and concepts, namely form driven layout. That is to say, our user interfaces, with a few exceptions (i.e. the web and Flash), don’t look all that different from those applications released with the first commercially available Graphic User Interfaces, the Mac and Windows 1.0 and the Xerox Alto built in 1975, 10 years before those systems where available.

 

Microsoft is changing all that by providing a platform that will lift us out of this state of stagnation by unleashing designer and developer creativity and elevating software design and development to something recognized by the general populous as an artistic rather than an engineering endeavor. And while you don’t have to look to deep to see a cynical side to their actions, I feel these new technologies will have an incredibly profound impact on how software is built and how it is used which will ripple through our industry for years to come.

 

So, what are these technologies and what is so special about them? That is what this blog-entry and others that will follow will attempt to do: Qualitatively assess the majority of technologies being released from Microsoft under the “Ready for a new day” technology and marketing wave. Here is a list of what I’m aware of to date:

 

· WPF

· WPF/E (Separate but related to WPF)

· WCF

· WF

· CardSpace

· Gadgets

· Expression Design Tools Suite

 

There are some other new technologies that will be released probably around the same time or shortly after from Microsoft such as C# 3.0, LINQ, and DSL Tools that I want to learn as much as I can and write about but, in a separate series. This series will focus on the related aspects of the technologies listed above. Feedback is welcomed: briancabbott@gmail.com.

BookMashing

Dynamic Topic Extension or BookMashing(tm) ;) is a recent idea I had. The core concept is to utilize emerging technologies to create hybrid books from a single original book, dynamically, on the fly, as the viewer is reading the book and making selections. Originally a viewer/reader (human, not digital) would select either a topic or an existing book to begin reading. As each page is displayed, that page would be analyzed against a domain specific ontology of topical information. As the ontology recognized central topics or associations with other topics not mentioned on the page, a list of new but related topics would be built and handed to a search engine. Those results would either be displayed inline with the text as possible expansions or, on a column to the right or left of the original text. As the user began making expansion selections, that information would be associated with the concepts in the ontology and used to be apply weighting to future results.

The same techniques could be used to build conceptual graphs of the set of books determined relavant through the ontologically driven search. Alternatively, a set of graphs could be dynamically built as the user read the text associated with the source or 'injected' information. When he decides to stop reading for the time, he would have an automatic set of notes generated (as conceptrual graphs) that he could review and use to strengthen his memory and understanding of the information that was read.

I think something like this would be well suited for Oragami's or Tablet PC Devices.