I don’t need to actually know everything there is to know about water, thermodynamics, surface tension, water cohesion and the myriad of other knowledge related to steam in order to get my model to work. All I really need to know is some formulas related to boiling points, pressure and kinetic input-energy-ratios. And believe me, this is a much smaller piece of the pie, then trying to create some kind of model that actually “knows” all the rules of thermodynamics.

So by breaking the problem into simpler and more manageable parts, I was able to overcome a huge hurdle in the pen to paper thought experiment. But that wasn’t enough, I wanted to actually draw the model and see if it made sense. But there were a bunch of things that were missing. One was namely the transfer of energy from one object to another. Yet after go through thought experiment after thought experiment, the solution presented itself and was far less daunting than I had originally anticipated. So the pen to paper rough concept came out and looked good.

Part of the beauty of simplicity is much more than the strange affinity the universe has with symmetry and balance. There is a way of accepting the unknown and putting it in a large enough box that has familiar properties, and if the box works…go ahead and use it.

One of my first invention concepts had to do with absorbing aggregate wind energy through a type of scoop. I spent money on the project and it ended up being a complete failure. But one thing that I learned from the project, is that simple parts can be connected to make impressive things. Even though the device collected no energy, it had a strange alternate use as an odd sound modification unit. If I still had it, it would have been cool to use on a recording for some hip-hop. But alas, it is gone now…yet the knowledge that was attained through its construction is permanently embedded in my mind because I spent so much time and energy on it.

As I look at the concept art for this new idea, I see a combination of old skills and information mixed with a new understanding of intermediaries and energy flow. And to my surprise when I opened my sketch book and began drawing, I saw my old calculations for the size of the main component on the last used page. How fitting it was to find them when I was finally able to put the thing together.

-Tyler

What I began to realize is that to be effective in almost any athletic activity, one needs a powerful core. Core strength refers to the power of the muscles deep within the abs and back. The hips are what grant a person to unlock the power of that core.  If you don’t believe me that the hip is important in all sports activities, youtube “turning hip” and the first video you’ll see is a professional golfer showing users how perform a proper golf swing. In baseball, tennis and other sports, they call it “hip rotation.” Mastering the hip rotation timing is essential to unlocking the full power of the core!

Muay Thai (Kickboxing) and Jiu Jitsu (Ground Fighting) really opened my eyes to this power. My Muay Thai coach always stressed the importance of turning the hip when punching and kicking. I would say almost 80% of the power of a punch or kick is derived from the torque generated from the hips.

My Jiu Jitsu instructor would always tell me to “control the hips” when I was on top of an opponent going for submission. I would do this when I was in “side control” by placing my knee right next to his hip so he could not “hip out” back to “his guard,” a more favorable position for him. I realize some of you may not be familiar with this terminology, but my point my point is not to teach you Jiu Jitsu. I just wanted to illustrate yet another example of the hips in action. In fact, the beginning of every jiu jitsu class started with a 10 minute hip moving exercise called “snaking.”

Now that we know how important the hips are, the next step is building and maintaining the core muscles for the hips to use. Sit-ups, crunch’s and Push-ups are excellent core building exercises. I’ve been researching some other methods of building the core, but I’ll share my results in a separate post.

So the next time you’re looking for some extra power – believe me, put your hips into it.

-Nauticaboy

Tiered Algae Farm and Coal Power Plant concept - CLICK TO ENLARGE

This is a diagram for the Coal Power Plant and Algaeo Bio Fuel farm concept. It goes into some detail into the idea for taking the CO2 from a coal power plant and piping it into a Tiered Vertical Wafered Algae System (TVWAS). This concept was first brainstormed at a previous article here at overidon.com. But this diagram omits the desalinization portion of the concept and introduced the idea of converting the algae into bio fuel. Here is a great article that describes how algae can be turned into bio fuel. The interesting thing about this diagram is that the Coal Power Plant not only generates electricity and heat, but it also has the byproduct of CO2 pollution. Fortunately, the algae in the TVWAS can hypothetically use the CO2 pollution as a food source. The TVWAS will have transparent walls, ceilings, floors and windows, so it will still be able to able some sunlight without needing to be using artificial sunlight energy in order to feed the algae.

A water source will be quite important so that is why the previous article discusses having a desalination plant nearby. But this diagram concept is to illustrate the CO2 -> Biofuel technique.

The reason why I like this idea is because it uses coal, which is a very abundant power source in the United States of America. And the other great thing is that biofuel can be used as a transition fuel for automobiles as we move to more electric solutions. I consider this technology to be a transition based solution that will help us move to more advanced forms of energy conversion.

The beauty of the TVWAS is that it uses technology that already exists. The only thing new is that it implements concepts of cogeneration in order to minimize waste. Of course there will need to be scrubbers that will clean the coal emissions of sulfur and other pollutants that the algae won’t be able to eat, but the amount of CO2 that can be turned into fuel could be quite lucrative. If enough of these TVWAS systems are sucessfully created in the future, the United States of America could become a fuel exporter instead of a vulnerably dependent consumer of fossil fuels.

Another reason why this type of system is being researched by overidon.com is the amount of employment opportunities for a wide variety of disciplines and skill levels for American Citizens. There will need to be a strong infrastructure of computer programmers, green technology experts, algae and farming specialists as well as industrial workers employed in order to make this system function properly.

As I flush out the concepts in more detail I’ll make more diagrams.

-Tyler Stansfield Jaggers

April 30th 2011

©2011 overidon.com

So what I did earlier today, was that I changed a setting on my mouse that made it so the right and left mouse buttons were switched. This made it so left clicking became a right click and vise-versa. But it didn’t stop there. I then switched the mousepad from being on the right hand side of my keyboard to the left hand side of my keyboard. The next step was to move the mouse itself to the left hand side.

As you can see, I’m now using my mouse with my left hand. It is quite awkward, but not bad enough to impair my speed of navigating my computer. And it is definitely making me slow down when using the computer in the department of how I hold the mouse. The reality is that I basically said to myself, “If I can’t break this bad habit with my right hand, then my right hand is going to loose computer mouse privileges for a few weeks and we’ll see how things go.”

Just a few hours with using the mouse in a different hand plus going to writer’s group has been a serious relief to my right hand. By no means am I ambidextrous yet, but I’m curious to see if there will be any hemispheric brain activity increases or perspective changes as a result of this simple variation in a daily behavior.

I remember trying to pass the bass in Waterpolo was extremely difficult at first, but after practicing for years, well…it was still hard, but it improved my control when I used my right hand.

Sometimes comfort zones can create efficiency but can also put the mind and muscles into routines that have detrimental effects on the entire body as a system.

It is interesting, after I typed that last sentence, I took a break and thought about what I was going to write next. But when I did that, I kept my left hand on the keyboard, (I write with both hands, using pretty much every finger) and I let my right hand rest on my right leg. The reason why I bring this up, is because when I would use the mouse in my right hand, in a similar situation my left hand would have been the one taking a break on my left leg. So it is worthwhile to mention that there has already been collateral behavioral change as a result of this relatively new habitual change.

-Tyler

1) Take a coal power plant and plug the smoke stacks into a kelp/algae Tiered Vertical Wafer Farm System.

2) Take a desalinization plant and plug that into the coal power plant and also in the Tiered Vertical Wafer Algae System (TVWAS).

3a) A TVWAS is a building that has different levels. On each level there are thin layers of water pools that are set up to receive the input of Carbon Dioxide (CO2) into the water. There is a layer of algae and or kelp that uses the CO2 in each pool or wafer to grow and reproduce and basically eat the CO2 as best as the algae can.

3b) There are processes described on Wikipedia that discuss scrubbing the Sulfur and other non CO2 out of the coal so that would need to be done before the CO2 hits the TVWAS.

3c) The TVWAS would get the water it needs for the wafers from the byproduct partially brine water from the Desal Plant.

This is just a rough concept. I’ll add more to this later. There are some problems with it, especially zoning and other things. But I really like to idea of using critters to absorb CO2. Also the algae when it blooms to densely in the wafers could be used for other purposes. Some of those uses could be for adding already made blooms of algae into desert regions of the ocean. I’m not sure if the algae could be used for food, but perhaps it could be used for fertilizer or some other purpose.

UPDATE – April 30th, 2011:  There is a new diagram related to this rough concept – CLICK HERE to view.

-Tyler Jaggers
Copyright 2011 overidon.com

Forest in South America

There are three interesting trends in the United States of America, that have synergistic potential to do something great for this country…reforestation. At first glance, these trends may seem alarming and forebode the worst for our future, but when we look at them in conjunction with one another, they present opportunities. These opportunities would not have been logistically feasible if it were not for the existence of the problems themselves. The first trend is that costs of fuel and other basic products are increasing without a tremendous increase in the average wages of wage laborers when inflation is taken into account. It doesn’t really matter if this trend is a manufactured trend, or if it is a real transition based on previously establish social and economic systems. The effect of this trend has very real results.

When the costs of fuel goes up, and if purchasing power stays the same or gets worse, then mobility decreases. This makes it so people need to make serious decisions on where they work, where they play, and how far they are willing to travel to get there. So the second trend is that people are starting to move closer to the cities. Sometimes people consider moving directly into cities that may have seemed less than ideal in previous decades.

The reason for this influx into the cities is because it makes zero sense to spend twenty dollars a day in fuel just to get to work, if you only make 100 dollars a day. That means you spent one-fifth of your time at work just to pay for your gasoline. It is ridiculous at best.

But with the influx of jobs and people moving into urban areas, there is often an increase in demand for fresh fruits and vegetables. Even though not all city dwellers can usually afford to pay for higher quality food-stuffs, many of the executives and self-employed individuals are willing to pay top dollar for their food. This is especially true in areas where people are health and/or physical appearance conscious.

So the first trend was the increase of fuel prices and the stagnation of wage laborers’ wages, and the second was the movement into cities and demand for high quality vegetables and fruits. But the third trend is not quite as apparent, but nonetheless very real. It is an increase in the public discourse on the concept of Vertical Farms.

Quite simply, a big farm in a skyscraper in or near a city will require less fuel to transport the foodstuffs into that city.

Right now, many of the fruits and vegetables that are in the grocery store may travel between 50 and 1,000 miles or more to get there. It is a highly fuel-inefficient process that may not hold up under the increased stresses on fossil fuel prices.

But if the United States of America became more food independent on a city level, then what would happen to the huge horizontal farms in the center of the country?

There is a tremendous amount of debate on this subject. First of all, not all of the farms in the center of the USA will ever go away. They are just too profitable for agribusiness that export to other countries. And this helps with the trade imbalances that we are currently experiencing.

But that being said, if US cities profitably engaged in vertical farming, then there may not be a huge need for as many farms in the center of the country. So one thing that can happen with that land, is that private companies such as corporations and sole proprietorships can purchase the land. Or wealthy individual citizens could purchase the land. Once the land is acquired, the former farms can be converted into fallow grasslands, and in about 30 years or so, they can become the beginnings of forests.

Now you may be thinking, why would businesses or citizens want to literally invest billions of dollars and 30+ years just so there can be forests again the USA?

Well, the reason for this is that there are very subtle advantages that a nation-state can have if it has a large and bio-diverse forest system. One thing to consider is that in the South American rain forest, there are lots of plants and animals being born and dying all the time. This is a very normal cycle of life. But what happens to all the dead stuff? Quite simply, mushrooms eat the dead stuff, and feed the nutrients back into the soil and trees.

There are underground mushroom systems that span hundreds and even thousands of square miles. Nobody truly knows how dense the fungal filaments are, but your house or apartment may be built on top of one of these systems. These systems of mushrooms keep the balance of the rain forests and keep biodiversity expanding.

Now, it is very unlikely that a rain-forest could ever exist in the United States. But it is very likely, that given enough time, a large enough forest system with limited human interaction could become a mega-dense forest with high biodiversity.

The advantage of having a massive system of biodiversity within one’s own nation-state is that it has been proven time and time again, that there are billions upon billions of dollars worth of potential technology in the medical and other fields within dense forests. The denser the forest, the more potential for technology.

Extracting information from forests requires specialists and highly educated and/or trained people. And converting the information gathered into actual products and advancements, takes entire teams. So there is  huge employment potential.

But let’s not forget about the mushroom systems under the ground. Some people ascribe to a Gaia theory that the planet is alive and other stuff. Yet none of that really matters. There are mushrooms that want to recycle dead stuff. And if the citizens of the United States of America allow a dense forest system to exist in the middle of the country, the fungal system itself may actually reward us.

An obvious and very likely reward would be increased soil nutrients. But the ones that I am most interested are the more invisible ones. Since trees can effect weather patterns, due to how they control moisture levels, then our country could benefit from a greater forest. And since we know that the magnetic pole of the Earth is changing, there could be unknown positive consequences by allowing large ecosystems to live uninhibited by human beings within our very country.

-Tyler

SOURCES:

1) Formidable Fungus is World’s Largest Organism, by David Johnson, article posted December 7th, 200 – Article Retrieval: April 11th, 2011. LINK: http://www.infoplease.com/spot/fungus1.html

2) Vertical Farm, by By Sudhirendar Sharma, article posted Tuesday, Article Retrieval: April 12th, 2011. LINK: http://www.deccanherald.com/content/149914/vertical-farm.html

magnet

The Earth’s Magnetic North Pole has literally shifted from Canada to Siberia (Russia).  According to Dr. Chris Connor during a news excerpt from NBC, he said, “…it’s been moving, and now it’s moved all the way from northern Canada into northern Siberia.” What it interesting is that Dr. Connor didn’t say what most websites and news sources are saying. Most sources I’ve read say that the Magnetic Pole is “shift-ING” to Siberia. But Dr. Connor very clearly says “moved.” This means that the pole is already in Siberia. The reason why this is worth discussing is because an article written in 2003 on the NASA website regarding Magnetic Fields, said that at the current rate of Magnetic Pole shift in 2003, the pole would move from North America to Siberia in “a few decades.” Now, when I hear the words, one decade, I think of 10 years. And a couple decades would mean around 20 years. But when I hear “a few decades” I definitely think of a minimum of 20 years, more in the ballpark of 21 to 60 years. This means that in 7 years, the magnetic poles have shifted what NASA predicted what would happen in a much longer period of time.

When I saw the movie, 2012 that starred John Cusack, I thought the scene where all the magnetic poles were shifting was an interesting Science-Fiction plot device. I never thought that this would actually happen in my lifetime. Although the film was highly stylized, the mere fact that the rate of pole shift is increasing is disconcerting at best.

-Tyler

SOURCES:

NBC News (Big thank you to NBC for broadcasting this excellent short piece on an interesting and important issue)

NASA: Earth’s Inconstant Magnetic Field, published December 29th, 2003. http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2003/29dec_magneticfield/

FoxNews.com: Ordinary Compasses Thrown Off by Changes in Earth’s Magnetic Field, written by Loren Grush, published February 25th, 2011. http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/02/25/ordinary-compasses-thrown-changes-earths-magnetic-field/

Wikipedia: North Magnetic Pole, retrieved March 30th, 2011. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Magnetic_Pole

BoxCar2D.com has programming that has huge potential

BoxCar2D.com is a website that simulates virtual genetics. But instead of creating some sort of life form, the website creates a vehicle with a very clear goal. The goal is to reach the end of a track or course, with variable terrain and difficulty. How far the car gets in the course directly corresponds to the acquired score. What makes things interesting is that the computer tries to create vehicles that do better in the course. But the twist is how it does that. The simulation actually uses virtual chromosomes that keep track of the body, number of wheels, and orientation of the car. So the program can literally, ‘mate’ two cars that may have achieved a decent score, and then create a new car that is a hybrid of the two parents. Although the simulation is quite entertaining and fun…there’s more. The user can actually mark cars that he or she feels are good vehicles. These cars get higher priority in genetic selection. Conversely, a user can ‘down’ a vehicle and basically delete them from the gene pool. This adds a level of dynamics that makes the simulation much more interactive and adds insight to the evolution of the program.

There is tremendous potential for this kind of programming technology to be adapted into a myriad of other fields. These types of virtual genes could be used for a problem solving computer that has to deal with creative ways to deal with flaws in construction. Or another application could be in creating a computer that could better recognize patterns. One computer could have the job of attempting to determine what an image is, and another computer could take that answer and input it into google and determine if there is a pattern match. If the computer does not acquire a match, then the genetic algorithm would not pass on. But if there was a partial match, then the gene could be stored until it could mate with another partially successful match. The program itself could evolve and be recoded and be evaluated in virtual ‘computer time’ and the process of evolution could happen quite quickly. Human interaction could be used to give feedback on the program’s development and guide the process.

This may seem like a very Sci-Fi application of this type of technology, but the potential is really there. I honestly love the BoxCar2D website and I think they are seriously onto something big.

One thing that is mind blowing is that the cars are not indestructible. There is a complete physics engine that can punish a structurally weak car if it takes a jump too hard, or hits the ground at the wrong angle. This is truly virtual evolution in real time.

Click HERE to visit BoxCar2D.com

-Tyler

But what exactly is the value of clean, healthy, drinkable water? This question is extremely important because water actually has multiple grades, quite similar to how oil has different levels of grades and refinement.

Think of a barrel of crude oil. Let’s just hypothetically say it is sold for 100 dollars per barrel. But as the oil is refined into gasoline and/or jet fuel the value goes up quite significantly.

The same relationship goes for a barrel of water. A desalination plant may have a large amount of salt-water that has little value. But as it is cleaned it can be used in industrial purposes or even converted into drinking water. Now think of the water bottles we purchase while on the go. We are quite willing to pay a dollar or two for a very small amount of water, especially because thirst is an overwhelming life craving. Water is necessary for almost all human life functions and so we pay for it gladly.

Interestingly enough, desalination does not simply mean removal of salt from water. The process also includes the removal of impurities and micro-organisms.

So if the USA continues to invest in and research more efficient desalinization technology, we may have a new resource that could be worth it’s weight in gold. One thing to consider is that as the global population increases, there will not only be more people hat need to drink water, but there will be billions more people that are quite literally made out of water. And since the amount of water on the planet is a zero sum game, and water is definitely NOT a renewable resource, then the value could skyrocket faster and higher than the price of oil, natural gas, or even the most precious metals.

The most logical trade partner the USA could have for water, is Mexico. This is for several reasons. Mexico and the USA already are a part of NAFTA, so trade barriers are negligible, and US water distributors would not have to deal with massive tariffs. Also, the existence of maquiladoras in Mexico are often associated with environmental pollution of local water supplies via rivers and lakes etc. So there is a demand for clean water in Mexico. This is compounded with how there is already pipelines either proposed or already established for the transport of natural gas, and oil, as well as fiber optic communication between Mexico and he USA as a result for the Security and Prosperity talks between he two countries. An addition of water pipelines would not only be intuitive along these previously envisioned infrastructure routes, but their construction could create jobs and career employment as well.

These water pipeline networks could eventually be extended south of Mexico, deeper into Latin America.

In addition to the concept of profitability for US water purifiers and distributors, there are political benefits as well. As water becomes more scarce, especially within Mexico and South America, there is greater risk of political instability. Unrest within cities as well as disputes between sovereign countries could become a huge threat to US companies that have engaged in Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in those areas. So by engaging in the massive abundant production o clean water here in the USA, we could secure financial interests abroad in the short and long-term.

Providing access to American water could also be a plan to improve the US image in Western Hemisphere politics.

Since the USA has a gigantic reserve of coal energy potential and one of the longest coastlines in the world, there is nothing holding us back from massive desalination efforts.

What needs to happen is a paradigm and perspective change on water. Instead of viewing desalination as a method to overcome domestic potable water scarcity within the domestic USA. We need to consider water as a potential money-making export that could very easily flow us through this economic dry spell, and help the USA navigate to the oceans of maximum prosperity.

-Tyler

Stealth Camouflage Disguise

There is more to stealth, camouflage and disguise than wavelengths of light and shadow. Several distinct factors of physics, biology and psychology make the successful shroud possible. The first way to approach a successful endeavor into non-detection would be to determine what method one will be observed with. For example, a Stealth Bomber, despite its name, would be easily detected visually if it was sitting still on an airfield surrounded by F-16′s. It would stick out like a sore thumb. But if a those planes were in the air, especially at night…the stealth bomber would be challenging to find visually and via radar. So it is important to establish, the setting and detection methods of the observer.

One possible explanation for the reason why most people can see many shades of green is interesting. People say that when early humans spent a great deal of time in forests, snakes were dangerous predators. The snakes were camouflaged by their color and patterns on their scaly skin. So the people that survived hunting and foraging in the forests were the ones that were able to distinguish snakes from the green foliage. Eventually people with better eyesight, especially in seeing differences in many shades of green were able to pass down their genes. And over time green became a color that most people can see great variance in.

So the snakes were technically using two different forms of stealth. First they had their primary color, which in many cases was green. And this helped them to blend in with their environments. The second form was their spots or colored shapes on their skin. These worked as a form of camouflage which works in conjunction with the base color but does something entirely different. The base color is an attempt to compensate for creatures that are scanning a jungle or terrain quickly. If you don’t look closely you won’t be able to notice the snake.

But the pattern camouflage is interesting because it tricks the mind into thinking that one thing is something that it is not. So camouflage is a more active than base color. Many soldiers use camouflage in order to decrease their visibility in the battlefield. But the more complicated the camouflage, the more terrain-specific it becomes.

But stealth is more than simply how things appear. Movement is a huge part of stealth. And usually it is relative. You can always pick a perpetrator out of a crowd when he is being chased by the police, because he is usually running and everyone else is not.

Panhandlers on busy street corners are easily visible because they are the only ones standing still. Someone carrying a sign on a sidewalk while walking in times square would blend into the crowd and probably would be ignored more than if he/she was stationary.

But we have just discussed visual stealth. There is stealth of sound as well. By walking on one’s tip toes, you make less sound. Unless of course if you are on your tip toes because you are wearing high-heels. Then one would probably make a great deal of noise.

Actually there is stealth for all the different senses one can think of. It doesn’t really matter if we are talking about visual or auditory, or even sent based stealth. The main thing to think of is that stealth is related to lowering one’s relative vibration level. It is all about not standing out.

Disguise, on the other hand is entirely different. It implies that one is trying to conceal an identity, by having a different appearance. The important thing to think about is that although appearance may imply that we are only talking about visual appearance. It doesn’t necessarily have to be that way. By simply changing someone’s inflection and using a blocked number, one can sound like an entirely different person on the phone. A change of cologne can make someone think that you feel differently about that person’s company. So disguise is focused on change.

Celebrities wear disguises all the time in order to avoid paparazzi. People grow beards, wear hats, and sometimes even prosthetic limbs.

But there is a special circumstance that combines many of these discussed methods of detection avoidance: Well timed honesty.

Someone being honest with his or her intentions or identity can have catastrophic consequences when they are forced to reveal them, under harsh scrutiny. But if those very same intentions are disseminated over a calculated period of time, people and organizations can become desensitized to them.

Let’s do a thought experiment.

Imagine Walter frequents his local coffee shop quite often. And every other time he goes to get his Latte, he mentions how much he loves gorillas and mentions some kind of interesting fact on gorilla lifestyles or physiology. Over time, the staff will become accustomed to listening to his gorilla info for the day and won’t think twice about it. Maybe even a barista may ask Walter about gorillas when he forgets to bring them up for a few days.

After a year of this behavior, Walter walks into the coffee shop wearing a gorilla suit.

Most of the staff, will probably guess that the person is Walter, playing a joke or going to a party and they will not call the police.

They might even ask Walter in his gorilla suit if he wants a banana smoothie as a joke.

The repetitive honesty of Walter, desensitized the coffee shop staff to the concept of him in conjunction with gorillas.

Now imagine if Walter doesn’t like gorillas and he never talked about them. Actually in this scenario, Walter is a huge fan of Jazz music. So every day he talks about Thelonious Monk and other famous Jazz musicians.

And after a year of constantly bringing up Jazz…Walter walks into the coffee shop wearing a gorilla suit.

You can see that the staff would be very shocked, especially if it wasn’t a holiday like Halloween.

So there is a form of power in honesty. But it is all about the timing and repetition of the information.

The shroud of honesty.

-Tyler

If you enjoyed this article – here is another on Invisibility and Energy Frequencies HERE

Sonic Meta Tagging

With voice recognition software at its current high level of sophistication, new advancements in the search engine optimization field may become available. The target for this potential technology may be videos on the internet that are primarily made up of human speech. The purpose would be to scan the audio track of a video and then use voice recognition software to pick out discernible words. After words are picked out they can be used in a type of “META” tag that could be used to make Videos more relevant and searchable on Google and other search engines. This is important because currently, text based written articles receive the most, “weight” for searches online.

The reason why text based articles get weighted heavier than videos is because even though videos have descriptions and tags associated with them, text based articles have crawlable text that robots use to determine whether or not the META keywords are truly relevant to the actual article.

So in that regard videos that are about interesting topics with poignant information are at a disadvantage to text based articles. Many videos rely on sharing by multiple people on social media network sites or require articles being written about the video and then having the video embedded in the post itself.

One solution to this problem that overidon.com presents is the concept of Sonic Meta Tagging. The same kind of surveillance technology that is already being used to detect keywords in telephone communication can be implemented toward videos.

So a hypothetical example of how this could be used would sound like this:

A person named Jordan made a video on YouVideoMaximum.net (ficticious website) that is basically a webcam recording of him talking about his concerns on how hamburgers are prepared at fast food restaurants. Jordan added information to his description and titled his video with his name and the words, “Burger Concerns.” In the description there is a little information with a general summary of what he is talking about.

But let’s say YouVideoMaximum.net eventually uses Sonic Meta Tagging and so when the video file was uploaded, the entire 9 minute speech on the hamburgers was scanned by speech recognition software. Then YouVideoMaximum.net creates a virtual transcript of the entire audio portion of the video that is visible to the computer mainframe. This transcript is converted into Sonic META tags that are actually crawlable by search engine robots. The file for this type of transcript can be modified and manipulated by editing a control file that is directly responsible for Sonic Meta Tags called robots.vox  (fictitious hypothetical file type).

What Jordan doesn’t realize is that his description is good, but there is information in his video regarding how employees use wipe their aprons with their gloves on and then proceed to make more hamburgers without changing the gloves. Jordan thought that everybody knew about this so he didn’t bother to mention it in his description, or title.

The beauty of this technology is that when a hypothetical internet user searches on a major engine for “hamburger wiping gloves on apron and continues working” there would be a slight likelihood that Jordan’s video would show up in the search results. How it would work would be that not only would the search engine scan the blogs and text based documents online for the words. And not only would the engine scan the descriptions of videos and the titles of videos. The search engine would be theoretically scanning INSIDE the audio portions of the videos themselves, via the text transcriptions in robots.vox.

A system such as Sonic Meta Tagging could have National Security applications as well. Currently Fusion Centers and information gathering agencies scan a tremendous amount of emails and websites for information that could be a security risk. With this technology a well equipped government agency with access to robots.vox or Sonic Meta Tagging could be able to quickly and efficiently search and scan for “red flagged” keywords or subject matter that may be a potential security risk.

Think of the millions of videos circulating on the internet. It is very likely that disturbed people or malevolent organizations may be using free internet video services in order to disseminate orders to each other by using “code” words. Since watching videos takes a tremendous amount of time, a system like Sonic Meta Tagging could enable security agencies to decrypt plans that are being distributed via free internet video services at a faster rate.

Remember, text based alpha-numeric information is much simpler than decoding wave form patterns. So an agency could really be more effective at weeding out malicious activity using Sonic Meta Tagging.

The real niceness of this type of technology is that it is just an amalgamation of several smaller technologies that have already been developed and perfected. So the research and development would be negligible.

-Tyler

7:47PM

Global Internet Security Protection Act (proposal)

INTRODUCTION

With the advent of the current WikiLeaks crisis, a new problem has come to the attention of the global internet community. That problem is that websites like WikiLeaks illegally disseminate information. To make the problem worse, many websites like WikiLeaks are powered by servers that are outside of The United States of America and therefore are difficult to shut down. In the case of WikiLeaks, some reports have gone to say that the servers are protected in hardened facilities that make physical disruption of the services provided by servers difficult. To address this problem it is recommended that an action be engaged that will ensure the safety and security of the dissemination or secrecy of sensitive information. To do this a simple measure of requiring an identification number for any new website that is visible on the World Wide Web after January 1st, 2012. It is proposed that this number will be indexed into a color coded database. Numbers that currently are not a security threat will have the color green and will be unaffected. Numbers that currently are under investigation for illegal information dissemination activity will be color coded yellow. And numbers that have been found guilty of illegal information dissemination will be color coded and dealt with under the guidelines discussed in SECTION 2A. The necessity and method of institution of such a measure will be outlined as follows within the Global Internet Security Protection Act (GISPA).

1. To facilitate the success of the GISPA it is necessary for the creation of a Global Internet Security Identification Number (GIS). The amount of GIS that will be created is determined by the number of requests for new websites in 2012 and future years. But if previous years are any indicator then we can expect that in 2012 there will be a need for a tremendous amount of GIS.

1A. GIS will be created by an affiliated quasi-government and corporate entity that will coordinate the coverage of GIS over Domain Names Services and Internet Protocol Addresses. This entity will be referred to for the sake of this proposal as the Global Internet Security Systematic Entity Registrar (GISSER). The primary role of the GISSER is to make sure that all new websites created after the January 1st, 2012 launch date are satisfactorily tagged with GIS. If the GISSER finds that a website does not have GIS, it will hastily assume the responsibility to make GIS and cover the infringing website.

1B. The GISSER will be funded by a $1.00 USD per new domain registration tax. The tax will be collected so that the GISSER has enough financial energy to create enough GIS.

2. The United Nations is the most logical institution to assess whether or not a specific GIS is illegally disseminating over the internet. The reason for this is because although the internet originated in The United States of America, it has truly become an international phenomenon. And as such, it is in the best interests of all participatory United Nations to determine what kind of GIS is a threat to International Security.

2A. In order to deem a specific or large amount of GIS as a threat a United Nations representative from a country in good standing must submit a request for GIS analysis. At this time an investigation will take place by the GISSER and the GIS will acquire a yellow color code. Yellow GIS will be scrutinized thoroughly by the GISSER and if it is indeed a threat, then that information will be presented to the United Nations General Assembly for a vote. If a simple majority of United Nations participants vote that some yellow GIS is disseminating illegal information and is a serious threat, then the GIS will acquire a red color. Red GIS will be reported to the GISSER and the GISSER will take all necessary steps to stop the associated website from successfully spreading its GIS on the internet.

3. As discussed in SECTION 1A, the timeline for the distribution of GIS only applies to new websites. But it is highly likely that many countries will enjoy the security of GIS insertion and will want retroactive GIS applied to older websites. In that case the GISSER will be faced with the challenging task of creating and distributing enough GIS to all the websites of the internet.

3A. In order to fairly distribute the GIS, the GISSER will choose retroactive target websites that are of at least 18 years of age. The websites closer to 18 years of age will acquire GIS first. Then the GISSER will move on to websites of 19 years and so on, until all websites have GIS. The GISSER will periodically check back to see if any previously GIS deficient websites have changed from 17 to 18 years of age. At that time the GISSER will distribute GIS accordingly.

The Global Internet Security Protection Act (proposal)

by Tyler Stansfield Jaggers

http://www.overidon.com/2010/12/gispa/

Foreclosure

About a week ago, I heard about how Bank of America was halting their foreclosures in multiple states. Now it seems that they have stopped foreclosing in all 50 states. This is called a moratorium, and in this case it means that Bank of America is not going to foreclose on many Americans’ homes even if they are not able to pay their mortgages. At first glace it may seem like they are doing this because they are being nice. Or perhaps they aren’t foreclosing on people because they can get more money by keeping people in their homes and accepting partial payment. But what I think is really going on is that Bank of America is attempting to preserve the housing market by plugging the gaping hole of rapid foreclosures. The one thing that we know about foreclosures is that the bank makes more money on a mortgage then they do if they have to sell a home after a foreclosure. The reason for this is because every time there is a foreclosure the bank needs to sell the property quickly in order to make money. Having it sit on the market does nothing for them. But the problem for the banks is that when there is a foreclosure in a neighborhood, there is a high probability that the value of other homes in the area will lose value. If you compound this with how there is a tremendous amount of unemployment and joblessness, then one can see how families may have trouble paying their mortgages. When people can’t pay their mortgages, they usually go into foreclosure and have to find a different housing solution.

But since Bank of America is temporarily halting Foreclosures, they are putting a stop on a chain reaction. This is actually in their favor. Because even though Bank of America will lose money from not selling properties that are foreclosed upon, they will protect the value of their other properties. I wouldn’t be surprised if other banks started to but the breaks on their foreclosures as well. I think the banks know something about the way the market is going that isn’t clear to the rest of us. They can probably see that even though the economy may look like it is stabilizing, the reality is that our ideal rate of financial growth is not sustainable.

One thing to think about is that if the value of a home drops, then it is more difficult to get good deals on refinancing.

Bank of America must see that they have too much a stake in the housing market to allow a foreclosure chain reaction to take place. So they are invariably protecting their assets by being lenient towards homeowners.

But while this is happening I am wondering how long Bank of America can maintain this halt on foreclosures. Because it doesn’t seem very clear when jobs are going to become widely available that will enable people to pay their mortgages. Also with the government going to vote again on the unemployment bill extension in November, there is an interesting issue that arises: Is the market heading toward a serious course correction?

From the looks of it, the government will probably pass the Unemployment extension in November. So it seems like we are being allowed to continue with our lifestyles for purpose. I think that purpose is to maintain consumption habits. If people stop consuming then this entire system is going to have a lot bigger problems than house devaluation.

-Tyler