The subtle... it flows around us, elven laughter, or so we say, attempting to paint over the beauty with our own colours. We envy the nature of things, admire the complexity that created us, and want to paint with the same brush.. recursion. The closest we get to this perfection is the chopstick. Silver chopsticks, not wood, dance in skilled hands, each with a different note. Hundreds form the orchestra, the individual tings form a grand theme. The human mind is a magnifying glass, a concentration and distortion of the grand complexity.. we cling to our own throats, struggling to achieve the calm we need is contrary to life itself, or perhaps just our way of being. We want to move, we need steps, we build elevators. They sit, they breathe, they let go of their focus.

It's been in the cooker for awhile, but commercial crypto is now starting to get some attention. I can imagine some interesting debates that will take place on whether this technology should be allowed into the private sector. It is a dangerous technology, and unlike some kinds of advances, does require a continuous line across the areas it hopes to link. It'd be easy enough for 'accidents' to happen to keep cutting that line that a lot of governments probably have little to fear. There are many interesting viewpoints on this -- allowing uninterceptable communications harms national security and law enforcement, but also is seen by many as being something that's a fundamental right, or at least something that should be sought, for all people. The same tools will be used by terrorists and people seeking to escape oppressive governance (often the same thing) as people avoiding laws that squeeze their individual autonomy, and the technology provides no means to cut the two purposes apart. It's like surgery with a thick knife.

This is funny, and weird. This is clever. This is an oops. It's kind of funny too. Read the comments -- the regular peanut gallery is going on with it's cries of SOCIALIIIIISM! "The concept of property is dead in America"... and other such nonsense. How wonderful, that anything that isn't plutocratic is socialist. I feel so sad that the 'I got away with it, let me keep doing so' isn't an argument that bears weight... *sniff*

Anyhow, like a few other people I know, I'm putting lots of time into Wikipedia. Debb and I are writing articles together. Huzzah!