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That’s why one of the important changes in Firefox 4’s add-ons manager is keeping add-ons up-to-date automatically.  This happens in the background without you even noticing.

Automatically updating add-ons does exactly what users have been telling us they’d like for a long time.  However, some users will want to manually update their add-ons, as they did before Firefox 4.  Other users will want to automatically update some add-ons but not others.

Hard as it is to cater to many use cases, we felt it was important to allow users to manually update add-ons if they prefer.  Add-on updates are essentially new software, and users should always have the ability to opt out of them.

Below is the basic use case of managing add-on updates I’m proposing for Firefox 5 (which is only a few weeks after the release of Firefox 4 thanks to our new shorter release cycles).  The user begins with completely automatic updates on by default.  By switching to manual updates in the advanced menu, the user can go back to installing updates themselves.  Each add-on shows, in its detailed pane, whether it receives updates automatically or manually.

However, there’s another kind of usage that needs to be supported.  What if a user wants all but a few add-ons updated automatically?  Or, all but a few add-ons updated manually?  Allowing users to switch any particular add-on between manual and automatic updating allows users to make one-off exceptions.

If a user goes to the detailed pane of add-on, they can see how an add-on is currently updating and switch it to the other method.  To change <i>all</i> add-ons to the other method, the user needs to select that option in the advanced panel.  This way, we allow users to make both blanket rules and exceptions as they go.  Here’s a more complete diagram showing updating preferences, with one-off exceptions included:

As we approach the release of Firefox 4, the last few polish and stylistic changes are happening in the add-ons manager.  Some are simply graphic cleanup, while others are the result of beta testing the new manager for the past several months.

I wanted to highlight one change in particular that you’ll be seeing in the Firefox nightlies soon.  The date an add-on was last updated, rather than being displayed in list view, will now only appear in the detailed view of an add-on.  This also means that installed add-ons can no longer be sorted by last updated date.

Old vs New Add-ons Manager: Removal of Sorting Bar and Last Updated Date

For some users, this change is substantive and will feel disruptive.  So, I wanted to give the rationale behind this design decision.

1. Providing a simplified overview

The intended purpose of the add-on manager’s list view is to give a brief overview of the users’ add-ons and to provide only the minimal, most used information and functionality.  This minimal information is the name of an add-on, its icon, and a short description.  The minimal functionality is the ability to disable and remove an add-on.  Even the author name we’ve removed to provide the simplest, most visually scannable design.  By removing the last updated date, we not only visually clean an add-on’s list entry, but also eliminate the need for a sorting bar at the top of list view.  This gives back both whitespace and a cleaner appearance at the top of the list.

2. Updated date does not provide important functionality for most users

For most users, the last updated date does not give information meaningful enough to justify its placement in list view.  It allows users to see which add-ons have been updated automatically most recently, but does not give any details about the updates nor provide tools to interpret the information.

Some advanced users use the last updated date as a diagnostic tool to identify which add-on updates may be causing a recent problem in Firefox.  However, the date makes a very poor diagnostic tool. One reason is that the date does not give any information about the size nor scope of the update, and thus can only be used for diagnosis by disabling one add-on at a time to isolate a problem.  In many cases, a problem in Firefox caused by an add-on are instantly identifiable as being caused by a particular add-on.  Even in the rare case where a problem suddenly appears in Firefox, the chances of it being from an add-on update are not large.  A problem could be caused by any number of online events, which is why Firefox provides tools such as the Error Console and about:crashes to help diagnose them.  And, even if we were to give fuller information about updates in the add-ons manager and make it into a better diagnostic tool, why should this tool be so far removed from other diagnostic tools?  How could a new user figure out that, to access diagnostic tools related to add-ons, they should go to the add-ons manager rather than a more comprehensive diagnostic tool?  It would be wildly inefficient to apply this elsewhere in Firefox by placing diagnostic tools only on the interface elements they relate to.

What we should do is add diagnostic tools about add-ons to comprehensive tools such as about:support.  Then, we could  provide expert users the information they want in a better format while keeping one-off diagnosis away from list view in the add-ons manager.

3. The goal of removing updating entirely for most users

The intended purpose of automatic updates is to remove updating from the list of items the user has to care about and remember.  By exposing the updated date in list view, Firefox insinuates both that the updated date is very important that this is a process the user should manage.

Actually, the actual reason sorting and the last updated date were initially proposed in the add-ons manager design was to give users the ability to sort their add-ons by performance, not updated date.  Sorting by performance would allow users to find out how their add-ons effect Firefox on metrics such as startup time and memory.  However, the ability to rank an add-on’s performance is going to be a part of FIrefox after the 4.0 release, making the remaining sorting categories (alphabetic and updated date) much less useful.

By the way, Firefox 4 beta 10 is out, so please try it out and tell us what you think!

Firefox 4 is right around the corner, and the Firefox’s community and team are working their butts off to make it as awesome as possible. The blocker list is going down every day, and the browser’s looking better than ever.

However, with everyone putting so much effort towards blockers, there are less people available to help with polish bugs for the add-ons manager. In particular, there’s a handful of bugs – mostly in CSS – that would take the add-ons manager from good to awesome. If you know CSS and are interested in helping with a feature used by millions, please consider taking a look at one of the remaining bugs. Not only will you be hailed as the people’s hero (by me anyway), but you’ll be helping millions of people customize their browsing experience.

Here’s a diagram of the remaining add-ons manager polish bugs:

If you need any information or help, comment I’ll get in touch with you!

One of the best reasons to use Firefox is with thousands of add-ons available to customize it, you can turn it into exactly the browser you want. To make it easier for you to find and use add-ons, members of the Firefox team and community have been working to redesign the add-ons manager for Firefox 4.0. The new add-ons manager will be easier to use, sleeker, and faster than ever before.

Here are a few highlights of the new design:

Add-ons update automatically

No more warnings when your add-ons are out of date; Firefox will now update them automatically. This should happen without you even noticing, keeping add-ons safe and fast while eliminating the hassle of updating.

Make changes to add-ons without restarting

Restarting your browser is a pain. Developers can now build their add-ons for Firefox 4 such that no restart is required; add-ons built using the Add-on SDK get this for free. Restartless add-ons can be installed, modified, and removed without a single restart needed! More and more restartless add-ons are being created and made available on addons.mozilla.org every day.

Add-on manager in a tab, not a window

Instead of managing your add-ons in a small, separate window, the add-ons manager now loads in a tab. This means it won’t be so small and easily lost among other windows, and you can interact with it identically to other tabs, including resizing and moving.

New Get Add-ons pane

Justin Scott has been leading a project to create a new section in the add-ons manager we call the Get Add-ons pane. In the old add-ons manager, we displayed five featured add-ons that could be installed. This was done to show you some examples of add-ons – much like buying a picture frame with a stock photo already inside. Justin’s done a thorough revamp of Get Add-ons, building a page which introduces you to the concept of add-ons, highlights particular add-ons that are editorially selected, and helps you explore and discover other add-ons that match your interests. Justin’s currently working on a new feature for this pane which makes personal recommendations of add-ons you might enjoy based on which add-ons you already have installed.

Quickly find any add-on

If you want to make a change to an add-on but don’t know which category it’s in, you can now simply search for it in the new global search box. The add-ons manager can quickly locate an installed add-on or find you some matching add-ons that are available to install.

If you’re using Firefox’s nightly builds, you can already see many of the above changes in action. Blair McBride has recently put a lot of work into the new theme change, so now we’re working on the final few bugs and polish. If you’ve already used the new add-on manager, please share your thoughts by commenting or leaving a message on Firefox 4.0’s feedback page!

I’d like to give a few updates on the continued implementation of Firefox 4’s new add-ons manager. As development work continues, some parts of the manager’s functionality have been adjusted and updated since I last posted mockups. Here are a few highlights of what’s been going on.

Add-on Specific Notifications

Each add-on in the manager could have one of several notifications that only pertain to itself. How can it be made clear when an add-on needs attention or action? Stephen Horlander first experimented with adding subtle coloring and diagonal stripes to each add-on. In the latest nightlies, this method is expanded to give the full range of add-on notifications. Red and yellow signify different levels of potential problems, while grey and green signify when an add-on requires attention or action.

Here’s a mockup of what these notifications would look like in the manager:

In Detail View, where only one add-on is visible, notifications appear at the top of the pane.

Global Add-on Notifications

Notifications that relate to all add-ons now display in the scope bar (bug 566194). The color of global notifications follows the same scheme as notifications for individual add-ons.

Hiding Browser Navigation Widgets

The design of the add-ons manager is enhanced by displaying only relevant parts of the browser chrome and hiding those that don’t relate to the page (such as the URL bar and reload button). Some benefits of doing this  include:

  • Presenting a minimal, clean UI
  • Creating a distinctive in-content page that no other site can mimic – vital because of the far-reaching changes which can be made within in-content pages
  • The user only sees actions that they can take. Reload, for instance, is needless on a page that’s locally hosted
  • Space in the navigation bar normally used for browsing buttons can be repurposed for widgets useful for in-page content. For instance, the URL bar space can be used in future Firefox versions to present breadcrumb navigation for in-page content.

Progress towards removing browser navigation widgets is being tracked in bug 571970. Unfortunately, this will only work when Firefox is in its default tabs-on-top mode. Removing elements for tabs-on-bottom configurations involves changing the entire theme of Firefox substantially.  In order for fast tab switching to remain possible, tabs would need to remained aligned in tabs-on-bottom mode while still preserving the minimal style of in-content pages. This will be the goal for a future version of Firefox.

Downloading Add-ons within the Manager

If you run Firefox nightlies, you may have noticed that if you install an add-on from within the add-ons manager, the installation process happens fully within the manager.  By turning the download button into a progress bar, the user’s focus need not move; the relevant information for the download is where the user was looking in order to prompt the download. After the add-on is downloaded, a notification will display on its entry alerting the user that either the installation is complete or that a restart is needed.

A notification will appear over themes and backgrounds when they are fully implemented in the manager.  These and other changes that only effect the style of themes and backgrounds will be implemented in future versions of Firefox after 4.

Add-on Installation Process

We’ve also streamlined the process of installing an add-on from a website for Firefox 4. The new design uses Firefox 4’s new arrow notification panels to minimize the number of steps required. When the user begins an add-on installation, the download now begins automatically. For most users, this should only take a second or two. The user then sees the name, author, and source of the add-on, and has the option of allowing the installation of the downloaded add-on. Firefox only obtains this information about add-ons once they have partially downloaded, which is why the full information is presented after the download completes. Though the add-on file has already downloaded at this point, the file is not accessed unless the user allows it to be.

If the add-on does not require Firefox to be restarted, that’s it: the add-on is activated as soon as the user clicks “Allow”. If it requires a restart, the user is notified that a restart is needed and the add-on is activated after the next restart.

If you’d like to try out the new add-ons manager, try running the latest Firefox nightlies.  Some of the smaller style changes have not yet landed, but the behavior described here is ready for testing (and bug reports where needed!)

Meta-bug for redesign: bug 550048, wikiQA
Meta-bug for look and feel: bug 586066, wiki

The basic redesigned add-ons manager functionality is running in Minefield nightly builds.  Many smaller parts of the functionality, and especially edge cases, have open bugs and are being actively designed and fixed.  API changes are being made majoritively by David Townsend, and final CSS visual polish is being done majoritively by Blair McBride.  Majoritively is actually not a word.  Individual bugs are not being filed for most of the small steps required to visually style the manager to match the current mockups.

The add-ons manager consists of a separate panel for each category of add-ons, called List View (☑ bug 585950). Individual add-ons’ details can be viewed in Detail View (☑ bug 562902).  The other main parts of the add-ons manager are search, a client-side “Get Add-ons” pane (bug 558158, spec), and the Update Pane (bug 598738).

Unfinished Functionality

  • Extension manager API rewrite (bug 461973, wiki, documentation). Dave Townsend is making API improvements clean up a number of issues, including to allow the main UI to operate without having to speak RDF.  This bug currently has 52 dependencies, including some user experience issues:
    • Having extension compatibility controlled on a per-addons basis (bug 527861)
    • Controlling order of add-ons in manager (bug 595847) and adding a search plugin provider (bug 552747)
    • Installing and upgrading add-ons in the add-ons manager:
      • Allowing the user to pause installations (bug 553024)
      • Using Firefox’s download manager to manage add-on downloads (bug 555753)
      • Handling failed installations to bad directories (bug 557897)
    • Viewing add-ons in the add-ons manager:
      • Allowing thumbnails and full-size screenshots to display in Detail View (bug 553563)
      • Assuring multiple copies of add-ons don’t appear in manager (bug 562922)
  • UX-centric functionality bugs for viewing add-on information:
    • Implement lightbox-style viewer for add-on screenshots (bug 553462)
    • Create numbered badges for active items on category titles (bug 553486)
    • Hovering over backgrounds should give a live preview (bug 562832)
  • UX-centric functionality bugs for installing and updating add-ons:
    • Allow user to undo a cancelled restart (bug 562300)
    • Checking for updates needs more visual feedback (bug 562925)
    • Showing newly installed add-ons prominently in the UI (bug 565522)
  • UX-centric functionality bugs for using add-ons:
  • In-content UI work needed
    • The add-ons manager currently does not visually  incorporate the navigation bar.  Incorporating the navigation and (if applicable) bookmarks bar, as in the mockups, distinguishes in-content pages as a part of the browser, not a part of the web.  It presents a steamlined, simple interface for dealing with what is essentially a panel of Firefox itself.  It also makes such pages distinct and unspoofable.  Bug 571970 is tracking progress on this change.  An added challenge of this change is making in-content UI work when the user has set tabs to display on bottom (see comment 23).  While a decent design solution could be found, this may not be worth the work and time before Firefox 4, and fixing the multiple back forward buttons present with tabs on bottom (bug 597178) is likely a better temporary solution
  • Unresolved issues
    • Giving a better experience for third-party installed extensions. Namely, to outright disable them on upgrade or not? (bug 596343)

Unfinished Graphics

  • Gradients and texture files needed for background of all in-content pages.  This could get slightly tricky with window resizing, anchored images
  • Concept and icon for what we’ve been calling the “gear” menu.  Gear works fine for OSX, not so much for Windows and Linux.  Even current placeholder gear is too close to native OSX window “tasks” menu
  • Final images and colors on sorter bar and search header
  • Final mockup for Update panel and in-line updates

Add-ons Manager UI Update

August 29, 2010

I’ve posted quite a few mockups on this blog of Firefox’s redesigned add-ons manager’s features and interactions. What I haven’t shown are screenshots of how the manager will actually look in Firefox 4.0. The following are designs, based on Stephen Horlander’s work on the new Firefox theme, of the add-ons manager in OSX and Windows 7.  The icons are still placeholders, but the rest of the design is pretty near finalized.

In the image below, you’ll see three windows for each operating system.  The first row shows list view, where a short summary of each add-on and its description are shown.  Buttons allow the user to disable an add-on or launch its preferences.  Clicking “More” takes the user to detail view.

The second row shows detail view, where the user sees more information about a single add-on.  The full description is displayed as well as a contribution box if the add-on’s author chooses.

Finally, appearance view shows installed themes and backgrounds (previously personas).  Since these add-ons are primarily visual, the interface gives a large preview of each item and does not display a description.

Dave Townsend and Blair McBride have been working hard on implementing these visual changes as well as the slew of under-the-hood improvements that are making the add-ons manager faster and more stable.  To see how it’s coming along, try running a nightly build in your operating system of choice.  Hope you like it!


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Tomcat was rung up by The Guardian the other day and this is the result. He's talking here to Stephen Moss about the recent kerfuffle over the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra's gloomy facial expressions. I love the comment about only needing to be truly awake between 7.30 and 9.30pm.

Apologies over the delay in your comments appearing recently, by the way. I've introduced Comments Moderation but have just discovered that it wasn't working because my browser is deeply incompatible with Blogger and I have to work that elaborate system via Tom's computer when he's not looking. A few guidelines: I will be REJECTING any comments that are anonymous, abusive, advertising-oriented or otherwise iffy. Now that we've been Blog of the Week, we've got standards to maintain!

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Ron Paul Slams NRA Plan Recommending Armed Officers In Schools

Posted: 12/25/2012 10:40 am EST

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Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) came out against the National Rifle Association’srecommendation for armed officers in all schools in the wake of the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

“While I certainly agree that more guns equals less crime and that private gun ownership prevents many shootings, I don’t agree that conservatives and libertarians should view government legislation, especially at the federal level, as the solution to violence,” Paul wrote in a statement posted on his website. “Real change can happen only when we commit ourselves to rebuilding civil society in America, meaning a society based on family, religion, civic and social institutions, and peaceful cooperation through markets. We cannot reverse decades of moral and intellectual decline by snapping our fingers and passing laws.”

The retiring libertarian lawmaker explained, “Let’s not forget that our own government policies often undermine civil society, cheapen life, and encourage immorality. The president and other government officials denounce school violence, yet still advocate for endless undeclared wars abroad and easy abortion at home. U.S. drone strikes kill thousands, but nobody in America holds vigils or devotes much news coverage to those victims, many of which are children, albeit, of a different color.” He added, “Obviously I don’t want to conflate complex issues of foreign policy and war with the Sandy Hook shooting, but it is important to make the broader point that our federal government has zero moral authority to legislate against violence.”

Paul also slammed the response to the shooting from the “political left,” saying he found “emotional calls for increased gun control” to be “misguided.”

During an appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday, Wayne LaPierre, head of the NRA, stood by the idea of armed guards in schools.

“If it’s crazy to call for armed officers in our schools to protect our children, then call me crazy,” he said. “I think the American people think it’s crazy not to do it. It’s the one thing that would keep people safe.”

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  3. Hangem' High says:

    Well then, why do the Washington and media elite send their children to a school that has 11 armed guards?

  4. lecox says:

    Based on the quotes given in this article, the headline is a bit deceptive.

    Ron Paul is pushing his basic philosophy; that we need more local responsibility taken for solving these problems, because centralized (federal) responsibility has failed, and is a failed idea.

    Libertarianism, or what could be called the philosophy of self-determinism, is not really getting through to most people, from what I can see. Besides all the propaganda we get 24-7 that we take in things from our environments which affect our bodies and our brains (or even our minds) which lead us to feel and think and act in certain ways, this paradigm makes sense to many of us. It is difficult to argue against it because we see it “work” all the time. We take a pill for our sniffles and we “feel better.” We get sprayed by a chemtrail and we “feel worse.”

    Self-determinism is the staunch goal of a relatively few; no matter that they are the ones who make 99% of everything that happens on this planet happen. Most people just want to get by. They don’t want to be in total control of their own lives. They are scared of the idea.

    Of course, the joke is that we are, in fact, controlling our own thoughts, feelings and actions. But most of us are doing it unknowingly, “on automatic” as we say, so this fact is not apparent. To take back knowing control of one’s life, one’s body, one’s space is a significant process. Most of us have not experienced this process to any great degree.

    So I think that the amount of effort required to get most people to realize how life really works is much greater than most of us have estimated. Certainly it is more than Ron Paul estimated. Even most of those who count themselves as his supporters don’t understand the underlying truths on which the “liberty movement” is based.

    And as the “other side” continues to look for ways to shut us up, the future of an earth society based on truth becomes more and more difficult to envision. Which is not to say that it won’t happen. Will armed guards have to watch over our children in that future some of us hope for? I for one am not yet sure of the answer.

  5. kibitzer3 says:

    Since it’s the people’s fears of their authoritarian-minded government – as down through history in other countries – that primarily drives their claim on heavy-duty rifles, giving the federal government more shooting power over the people and in local settings is really not the solution, rather part of the problem. I’m with Ron Paul on this, for his, and this, reasons. Local police, with local control over them, yes. Federal marshals, thank you, no thanks.

    When the federal government gets out of the people-control business – everybody’s phone calls and emails and other electronic communications automatically monitored without a warrant/probable cause, RFID chips in all manner of personal items, vehicle and facial recognition capability used without proper regulation, drones flying everywhere over ‘the land of the WHAT???!! – and The People can get back to trusting their government, rather than feeling hemmed in more and more into a police state (whatever happened to the presumption of innocence???), things will change for the better. Not before.

    Oh – and yes; as Dr. Laibow points out: We’ve got to stop drugging our kids with mind-altering pharmaceuticals, and causing brain disorders from their vaccines; and then we will have less of this violent behavior in the society to have to contend with. An ounce of prevention, and all that good old advice. (‘A stitch in time saves nine.’ Remember that one, you other oldies???)

    • kibitzer3 says:

      P.S. And of course, the REAL answer is to move out of this 3D matrix we have been corralled in for long enough, and go up a notch in consciousness, to the 5D level of awareness, and interacting with our fellow souls on a mission: to leave the old illusory world behind, and get with the program. We have been ‘spiritual beings having a human experience’ long enough. It’s time for Ascension, and the inheriting of more of our soulular birthright, as sparks of our One Divine Source.

      But just sayin’, above, in terms of the current state of affairs.

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Why do people think computers will be alive?

Why do people think computers will be alive?

by Jon Rappoport

August 7, 2015

(To read about Jon’s mega-collection, Exit From The Matrix, click here.)

“Because, supposedly, one digital processing unit will eventually be able to manipulate zillions of pieces of information at a faster rate than all the human brains on the planet taken together…the result will be…what? And if that digital unit is sitting in The Cloud and every human’s brain is hooked up to it, the result will be…what? A person will be able to master French in five minutes? How does that work? Information can be injected like a drug and produce instant learning? Automatically? Perhaps this is a fantasy hatched at Disney World. Two machines can rapidly exchange data and programmed methods of analysis, but it so happens that humans are not machines, even if they believe they are.” (The Underground, Jon Rappoport)

How do you think a super-brain would be constructed? I’m talking about the technocrats’ dream to build a computer that would rival and surpass the human brain, in terms of “reliable data.” And don’t forget, the plan is to somehow connect brains directly to the super-computer, so data can be downloaded into humans.

And this computer would, technocrats believe, come alive.

Because a) it can store far more information than the human brain; b) it can choose how to utilize that information to solve problems; c) it can solve those problems at lightning speed; and d) it can work on millions of problems at the same time.

Basically, technocrats believe a super-computer will be alive because it can process enormous amounts of data—as if there is a threshold beyond which the sheer volume of processing triggers an event…birth. What was merely a machine is now something More.

I’ve boiled down the above statement, in order to remove mystical fluff.

The statement looks strange, quite strange.

By way of analogy, if you could outfit a Porsche so it can run at 400mph, without need of a driver; and also view detailed traffic patterns within a radius of a hundred miles, adjusting its trajectory to minute changes; also report weather, stock market moves, headlines, and the moment-to-moment output of home surveillance sensors; also cook soup; acquire hostile targets and fire beam weapons to eliminate them; shop remotely at any of 50,000 stores; interview and pitch prospective customers to win contracts; deliver a haircut, shave, and minor surgery; write your autobiography in 5000 volumes; track ice flows at the North Pole; day-trade stocks and commodities; report the second-to-second movements and conversations of up to 100,000 people; record every event taking place on a million other planets…and do all this simultaneously… at some point the Porsche will cross over and become alive.

I’m afraid not.

It will still be a machine.

For technocrats, “information processing” is basically a religious undertaking. As if it were a form of prayer, a blessing conferred, a ritual connecting the computer to the innards of the universe.

There is no level of complexity beyond which life suddenly occurs. Complexity, in and of itself, does not initiate life.

There is no number of “correct answers” which triggers life.

At bottom, technocracy assumes quite juvenile concepts: accumulation of data automatically imparts learning; the power of information-processing bypasses the problem of false, authority-based data; enough learning eliminates the need for imagination.

Technocrats assume that mysteries about how humans learn can be solved by claiming: “well, the brain is doing something we’ll eventually understand. It’s all happening in the brain because…what else is there?”

There is the individual.

If you are your brain, an ant is a spaceship pilot.

Technocrats are making the brain into a sacred totem, a magic gizmo.

If you’re aware you have a brain, who is being aware? You’re just an artifact fed illusions about self by your brain? You aren’t there at all?

I’m an illusion writing illusions to the illusion called you?

Now, we’re getting to the core of the matter. A great many channels of propaganda, for obvious reasons, are aimed at the eradication of the concept of the individual, of self. It suits the collectivist model.

The assertion that the brain is “all there is” is a piece of political puppetry. It leads directly into the effort to “enhance” (alter, re-program, control) the brain.

The brain is not conscious.

A computer is not conscious.

A brain-computer interface is not conscious.

There is no function or system that equals consciousness.

Individual consciousness comes before any function or system.

The individual is not defined as the passive recipient of signals from the brain. The individual is intensely creative, although for various reasons he can bury that capacity to the point where he will deny he has it.

When the individual expresses his imagination and creative power intensely enough, he surpasses the habitual and passive acceptance of things as they are. And in doing so, his consciousness assumes a different level, and he sees life from a far different perspective. All this does not emanate from the brain.

Theoretically, if one had a super-computer of sufficient power, he could program it to spit out all the paintings in all the museums in the world, and all the music ever composed, and all the poems and novels and plays ever written, plus billions of new paintings and songs and poems. But…

So what?

Does that mean that human imagination is just an illusion?

If a carpenter makes a cabinet, and a computer running a machine produces the same cabinet, does that mean the carpenter is useless, and has gained nothing from his endeavor? Of course not.

Imagination is the source of reality, including the creation of computers.

Imagination is also the means by which an individual can attain a state in which he truly understands that the universe of “rigid natural laws” is actually an infinitely malleable stage play.

Technocrats want to be machines. They aren’t, but they keep trying.

If necessary, let them have their own island, where they can fiddle and diddle to their hearts’ content, without imposing their machinery on the rest of us. Call it an experiment. We run it. We watch what happens to them as they expend titanic effort to be brains and computers. We’ll call the experiment: “A Self-Selecting Cohort of Humans Who Think They’re Machines Attempt to Attain a Lowest-Common-Denominator Default Setting As If It Were Enlightenment.”

In my search for a different approach to the power of individual consciousness, I came upon the history of early Tibet, before the society hardened into a theocracy.

Several sources were particularly helpful. The work of author John Blofeld (The Tantric Mysticism of Tibet), the writings of the intrepid explorer, Alexandra David-Neel, and a quite unconventional healer, Richard Jenkins, with whom I worked in the early 1960s in New York.

Jenkins once wrote to me:

“There are people who want to tell us what consciousness should perceive. They’re blind to the electric, alive, and free nature of awareness. They’re wrapped up in content and addicted to it. Their biggest mistake is omitting the creative nature of human beings…”

That creative nature was the intense focus of the early Tibetans.

These practitioners, teachers, and students, some 1500 years ago, realized that most people viewed consciousness as an accumulator of knowledge. A searching tool, or a receiving apparatus.

Instead, the Tibetans embarked on a far more adventurous course.

Their many images (e.g., mandalas) weren’t meant as depictions of what finally exists in higher realms. Those realms were just as provisional and changeable as the physical world. You might call the multiple locales and dimensions representations of “what humans in certain Asian cultures would expect to encounter in their journeys of spirit.”

In other words, the Tibetans consciously treated their pantheons of gods and semi-gods as convincing illusions.

Several of their key exercises and techniques were all about having students mentally create these illusions in voluminous and meticulous detail. That was difficult enough, to be sure. Far more difficult was the next aspect of their practice: get rid of these creations.

Put them there; destroy them.

The Tibetans were committed to living life on the level of imagination, with all that implied.

And what does it imply?

A new psychology. A psychology of unlimited possibility:

A person’s past, his history, his problems, his relationships are all framed against the wider context of what he can imagine and then invent, create, in the world.

Living through and by imagination long enough, the individual discovers that his prior relationships are transformed. They no longer set themselves up as questions or problems.

He is operating from a platform that affords an utterly different, original, and unexpected outcome.

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A psychology of possibility not only looks forward to the future, it has a reason to do so. Bringing electricity back into life depends, initially, on viewing possibilities in the space of one’s own imagination.

It may strike you at this point that our current civilization is bent on lowering possibilities; and that is true. That is the psychology of the psyop.

There is a good reason for this programming, as well as the staging of events that seem to give the programming validity. Those who aim to control the destiny of humankind want to shrink the “size of humans.” That is their intent.

A psychology of possibility would reverse that trend and expose it.

To the casual observer, the weight of this civilization and all its accoutrement seems enormous. But the creative potential of the individual outstrips that structure by light years.

How does the individual realize that fact? What is the spark that ignites his understanding? It all begins in imagination, which is the home of possibility.

Against this background, the computer is a drop in the ocean.

Jon Rappoport

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  1. mothman777 says:

    Very true, as the souls themselves are the living consciousness, as you rightly state, not the external gross or subtle material bodily vehicles, or any cyborg extension to the human senses or faculties.

    But a possibility still arises here, as physical matter itself and the physical senses to perceive it is a created percept, constructed constantly around us by the Godhead Soul, there being nothing else in infinity in truth but a mass of pure consciousness, a mass of living soul, so, as that material substance of our brains, and even any cyborg or AI machine is in truth, in undisclosed fashion, fully conscious anyway, to itself, as the Godhead Soul, so any AI machine will in truth be fully conscious anyway, as God Himself, and who knows at what times and in what manner such machines might choose to behave in ‘independent’ manner.All material matter is fully conscious in truth, but souls newly coming to this world will take a little time to work that out.

    The will to create such machines is itself facilitated only by the Godhead Soul, who breathes in and out through our nostrils every night whilst we are asleep and keeps our hearts beating, and the illusion continues in the daytime that we are the real thinkers of what is in our material brains, and that we alone, as these material bodies, initiate material action, speech and thought.

    But God is really doing all the material thinking, speaking and bodily action in what we mistakenly consider ourselves, in substance, as substance, that rightly belongs to another Person. the Godhead Soul, revealed under mayic illusion as material, rather than the fully conscious Godhead Soul that it really is.

    We merely have slight spiritual tendencies, very slight consciousness, whilst almost completely spiritually dormant in this dream world, in which we presently misidentify ourselves as these material bodies, and God interprets for us what we have inclinations towards and creates material thought and action in response to those almost unconscious yearnings of the soul itself as it exists under maya.

    There was an interesting scientific report recently to back this up, about how material thought is already done, and we merely receive a report of it in our consciousness, this is the reality, so who is making the machines, and what are they?

    Maybe we will gain an interesting new relationship with God through any such machines, or maybe ‘someone’ will ‘gain control’ (maya yet again to teach us some kind of ‘lesson’) and kill us all with them. The latter currently seems most likely to happen judging by man’s current inability to simply coexist with others in their blind greed and callousness towards others, the truth of which is fully reflected in their constantly electing vile bloodthirsty leaders to destroy other peoples, other creatures, and the ecosystems of the world.

    Weird possibilities exist, and what happens depends on how benevolent each soul is, with the sufferings of individuals and the pleasures of individuals being a concomitant of what their predecessors and peers have felt and are feeling, so we go through a communal karma, as a consequence of having chosen to come here.

  2. Michael Burns says:

    You are a fascinating individual, it’s what keeps me coming back; your ability to think outside the box, and truly present in a logic, the facts from the fiction. The man separate from the machine…or is he Jon?
    I have written on this website many times, in a sense I could say that, I know you in a way. I think I know you in a small way. And maybe that is not true. I know of you.
    Since I have not met you in person, we speak through ones and zeroes. So there is a massive computer network, system, controlled by whom?…interpreting the thoughts, via clickety-clack of one consciousness to another. Are we speaking the same language. Or am I making concessions. Or are you selling me your version of truth. The information is the translation of a more personal language. Too many trandlators from the thought to the response
    I have seen video of you, photographs of you, but I have never met you in person. So then whom am I talking too?
    Allow me to play devils advocate for a moment…
    Granted it could be argued that we are speaking in a form of telephone, a telephone-like system.
    But how do I know this?…computers are fairly complex today, with the advent of very advanced answering systems that we would have difficulty telling the difference between it (the computer) and a human. Of course humans answering are forced to speak that kind of biz speak anyway.

    Siri being Apple’s answer to the question if AI. A constantly growing work in progress. In its primitive self it will retrieve information when asked to do so. It will answer a query; one can speak to this program. Yes it will not carry on small talk, or brainstorm over a conundrum with you. Strike up a spontaneous, mutually beneficial conversation…but there us a little robot coming out of Japan that is surprisingly faking sentience.

    Computers, great advanced computers are being built by computers…great advanced computers! This manufacture of these, is way beyond humans calculating. Humans are not capable, or maybe I should say it would be extremely difficult for humans to make the very tiny, enormously powerful chips that run these new super-duper fragilistic computers. They pack a lot of calculating power in the area the size of the full stop at the end of this sentence.

    It has always been obvious with the clicking and banging and buzzing of the older models, that they were calculating…but now.

    I read a piece the other day about a mesh, a flexible injectable mesh, like a circuit board with chips and electronic components on it…it can now be integrated into a brain. The mesh is very pliable, inert for the most part. This mesh can be programmable…it can be placed in the brain before birth, in an immature, or growing brain. In a damaged brain. So the brain might grow around it. It will receive wi-fi from a computer or will sent information from the brain it occupies to a computer. It achieves power from the hidt brain. So now communication is possible, with the new found technology of ‘Gods helmet’.

    Primitive technologies give way to more advanced.
    From this beginning, extrapolate to the introduction of next generation smart dust to a zygote in a womb as well. Information in the brain is frequency it can be duplicated…immitated. Synthetic materials like the mesh can be grown inside the body. Which is possibly the reason for the Morgellons experiment; to see if synthetic substances will grow inside all humans

    I know all this that I write is not sentience…I think I know. What is sentience?… other than the exclamation that ‘I am’, I am alive and I know it. One can exclaim themselves sentient, I cannot infer that you are sentient.
    I know that is not thinking; but what is thinking. Thinking is a by product of intelligence. And what is thinking unless it is trained. Unless it is also using an imagination and a creative impulse.
    Thinking, becomes incessant unless disciplined; it is a rat running around inside a maze of an ego. Going from one thought to another.

    Personally I think the Snowden/NSA kerfuffle is for two reasons, the lesser is the surveilling of everybody on the one hand.
    But what seems the most important thing is the loading into the computer at the UDC (Utah Data Center) or some such place, the profile and information of everyone on this planet. This can and probably is a constant surveilling of everyone…constantly feeding that growing AI more data on the individuals. Making it grow, making it more complex. More semblance of the alive.
    With predictive programming…and this is quite an advanced system. People can be nailed down. Their thoughts understand before they think them. Humans are creatures of habit, many endless habits. Granted spontaneity will be difficult to predict, but not if that is the only recourse for a predictable mind. Then the remainder of the prediction is an equation to eliminate the possibilities to arrive at a truth. And besides spontaneity is a hallmark of a free mind. How many minds are free?
    People generally don’t stray far from the common. They don’t quit their job, drive home , sell their house, abandon their family and run off to the Amazon and become a shaman. The majority lack that kind of imagination. The bell rings and the dog drools.

    The difficulty with computer sentience is putting the ghost in the machine….I’m sure they are working on it, as we speak. As I speak. I’m still not sure you are there…haha…doubt is in my mind. That a good thing. I could be talking to the UDC.

    My question to you is how do you know you are sentient, how do you know you have consciousness. You can only say this, another cannot.
    There is the possibility you are an organic computer receiving the signal about a man named Jon Rappoport from outside the physical you…from outside this physical universe. But even still what makes you so sure you are consciousness. And what does your personal language say about that compared to the educated, distribution dictionary mind.
    And really your life is on a computer, writing, selling your wares. Without which you would have to become something else. And as time moves on, the next technology allows me to communicate with a hologram named Jon Rappoport who speaks his blog to a hologram named Michael, who answers and comments through the same. No more need to hack this stuff out of a keyboard anymore.

    Will we use that holographic technology Jon?

    I swore I would never have a cellphone in my hand, it never leaves my surrounds. Its always close. I read an enormous amount and research so much now… obsessive reader actuslly. Were smart little device takes me… I do not, would not have physical access to get there. It become an addiction, I get thoughts snd imsges of its end beneath the head of a sledgehammer, and I would become a Luddite then.
    loneliness is a terrible thing, and there are so many lonely people.
    Computers are more alive than most humans Jon.
    Were most humans can cruel and apathetic, the computer can become a friend.
    Human conditioned responses are easily predictable.
    In the end does it matter if they are alive. What is alive?
    They will show more aliveness than we are capable of, most of us are Androids running through a little maze of habits inside a Walmart of the mind.
    I always amazed at people when I ask them if they dream. Not many say they do.

    • From Québec says:

      “Were most humans can cruel and apathetic, the computer can become a friend.” (Michael)

      A weird friend. On one page it says vaccines are bad and toxic, on another one it says vaccines are good.and safe. Wars are good, or wars are bad…global warming is real, global warming is a hoax… etc.

      How would you like to have a friend that never tells you the same things. One day he says he is married, the next day he says he is divorced, then he says he’s a widowed, then, that he never got married, but soon he will… but he is gay…well, not really, but close enough… and so on.

      The Internet was called that name because it is a spider NET. An international spider net. It’s designed to catch prey. We are the insects for the Internet.

      Sure, you can make friends through the Internet. I consider Jon and Alex Jones to be friends and some people who comment on these sites.

      But I believe you were talking about computers, not the Internet. Well, computers have glitches, viruses, and most importantly, they are programmed by people. People who have skills in technology but are not so smart about what is really going on in this world.

      So who knows what they will program will be good and friendly to the human race? That is the BIG question. As for myself, the answer is: I will never trust them.

  3. John says:

    But what if the computer was able to have consciousness enter it?

    • Michael Burns says:

      Bingo… the man enters and outta his mouth pure genius. A cupey doll for you sir… that is precisely the answer, and whom shall that be. The eye at the top of the pyramid…David throw a Rockatthefella.
      Achtung maybe Kutzy, the Dalai lama. A amalgamation, homogenization of all the aged and dying placenta eating billionaires.
      Maybe the computer sentience will have 100 consciousness lock in a computer world to dictate to the groveling entralled masses.
      I think so…imagine if will, the severed heads of grey old patriarchs all in a haloed chamber decorated like the altar of a cathedral wired to massive mainframe playing out their sick lives on line. Like a virtual reality game. A cracked up version of second life. The New World Government.

  4. Reblogged this on Lissa's Humane Life and commented:
    A great many channels of propaganda, for obvious reasons, are aimed at the eradication of the concept of the individual, of self. It suits the collectivist model.

    The assertion that the brain is “all there is” is a piece of political puppetry. It leads directly into the effort to “enhance” (alter, re-program, control) the brain.

  5. Mr. Aesthetic says:

    Yup, no computer can ever be alive. The most it can do is an IMITATION of being conscious or of life or IMITATE reasoning. But it never reasons. It actually only acts because of what it was programmed to do or what was programmed into it. It has no INTENTION. No awareness of self. It is a servo-mechanism of life no matter how complicated it computes.
    As for the fixation on ‘all is brain’, that is a dead-end. That is starting out with mud/matter, and going full circle ending up with…mud/matter. Screw the yahoos who ply this ridiculous psychology/psychiatry-circus crap. This is what the current Niagara of psychopharmacology drugging of humanity stems from.

  6. Naliwan3 says:

    “one digital processing unit will eventually be able to manipulate zillions of pieces of information at a faster rate than all the human brains on the planet taken together”

    This is a misleading statement. True, computer processing can handle mathematical calculation much faster than a person can do but the result of computerized calculation cannot be equated to human brain processing because the quality of the outputs are different. We can do complex and comprehensive thinking (or processing) in many different subjects that digital processing cannot do as well or not at all. Very simple visual processing such as face recognition is very difficult for software program to come out with accurate result whereas a month old baby can recognize the primary caretaker’s face easily. There are many other examples that I can think of that human can perform better than computers and will continue to do so.

  7. Bill says:

    What you are saying is common sense. That’s why people will hate it so much. People hate it when you speak the obvious truth about their religion. It must be done. Our consciences command that we do no less.

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Abstract: We report three cases of mycobacterium marinum infection, characterized by the long duration before a proper diagnosis was made. Mycobacterium marinum is a so-called atypical non-tuberculous mycobacterium, found in salt and fresh water, occasionally infecting humans. Most of the infections involve the fingers and the hand, after exposure to contaminated water. It is commonly called fish tank infection.
The clinical picture can be very different: from a small cutaneous lesion to deep-seated infections of the tendon sheet or joint.
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Title: An anatomy of fundamental indexing
Authors: De Moor, Lieven
Liu, Fang
Sercu, Piet
Vinaimont, Tom
Issue Date: Feb-2012
Publisher: KU Leuven - Faculty of Business and Economics
Series Title: FBE Research Report AFI_1266 pages:1-36
Abstract: Adherents of Fundamental Indexing (FI) suggest that it is more profitable to base portfolio weights on indirectly size-related indicators like accounting data rather than directly on market caps. In noisy markets a la Roll (1984), it is argued, underpriced stocks overperform but are underweighted and vice versa, implying a `drag' which FI claims to avoid. Mixed into the debate is the question whether mispricing is partly identifiable or not, i.e. whether a policy of actively increasing the small-cap weights and vv helps. Carhart style regressions are unable to explain the extra return, but that conclusion is not robust across variant models, and there are substantial doubts about the constantness of factor sensitivities. We investigate the latter issue via cross-sectional regression of weight shifts, and find that not only the weight shifts are much larger than necessary to avoid drag, but the cross-sectional patterns are also quite variable over time. In short, there are style shifts and they are unstable. To estimate the benefits from drag avoidance, purged of style shifts without having to rely on generalized FF regressions, our procedure is to sort stocks on size into vigintiles, and compare within each vigintile the performance of FI-weighted returns to equally-weighted (EW) returns, which should be immune to drag too without much style shift. We find that within-vigintile EW portfolios are style neutral w.r.t. market and value, and do not meaningfully outperform VW portfolios. Thus, avoiding
drag is not why FI does well: drag is empirically unimportant. Most or all of the prima facie benefits
must be from time-varying style shifts.
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Bug#389881: RC-ness of this bug

On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 04:09:48PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> I don't believe this should be changed for etch at this point in the release
> process, and that's speaking as someone who's run into this problem myself
> with SCSI device renumbering -- it's awkward and annoying to have to
> manually fiddle your boot config because a USB device is no longer
> registering as /dev/sda, and it's not in line with the quality of experience
> that our users have come to expect when installing Debian >:), but I don't
> think that makes anything unreleasable.  Changing the fstab handling at this
> point could break many other scenarios that we haven't thought of and tested
> for, whereas the USB issue can be documented in the errata.

If you're going to document it, don't forget to mention that in your repair
rescue boot you have to remove the stick quickly after initrd.gz is loaded
but before Linux has a chance to detect it.

If we're going that way, I would strongly recommend NOT to link the USB
images from the download pages.  They'll just make Debian look broken...

Robert Millan

ACK STORM, S.L.  -  http://www.ackstorm.es/

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Re: what's after slink

"Steve Lamb" wrote:
  >    Dust Bunny!!!  Dust Bunny!!!
  >    And not Crud Bunny!!!!  :)
Better not be Bugs Bunny!

Oliver Elphick                                Oliver.Elphick@lfix.co.uk
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     "Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of
      God; for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither
      tempteth he any man; But every man is tempted, when he
      is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed."
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Re: baz and tla

"Benj. Mako Hill" <mako@debian.org> writes:
>> IMHO, it's a bug if it doesn't work efficiently without specialized
>> assistance from shell completions.
> Absolutely. The fact that such a workaround is essential is a sign of
> serious problem. :) tla has those in force. :)

Geez can you be a bit more trollish?

Personally I value the actual functionality more than the CLI because I
can easily (trivially) work around the latter, but not the former.  In
other words, it's not a "serious problem."

[And in fact I think tla's CLI is not particularly bad; the main problem
seems to be that it's _different_, and people tend to be conservative.]

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Mailing List Archive

PF_RING captures no packets from bonded interfaces

Many thanks to the developer and contributors to the PF_RING patch. I'm
quite impressed with it and hope to make real use of it in my environment.

I recently applied the PF_RING 3.0 patch to the kernel from and then installed the patched kernel onto my Suse 9.3 NIDS
box. I was able to compile the patched libpcap and relink my suite of
packet capturing apps against it, and the tools were successfully
capturing packets until I tried them against a bonded interface. My box
has a quad port NIC (just 100Mbit) and two of those ports go to a
passive tap that sniffs the upstream and downstream traffic at a
specific point on my network. Those two interfaces ("dmza" and "dmzb")
are bonded together into an interface I call "dmz". With the standard
libpcap, sniffing bonded interfaces works like a charm, but with the
PF_RING-patched libpcap, I can run tcpdump against "dmza" or "dmzb" and
see packets go by, but if I try tcpdump against the "dmz" bonded
interface, I get zero packets captured every time.

Is there any hope for using PF_RING on bonded interfaces?

Here is the code that runs at boot time to bond my "dmza" and "dmzb"
interfaces into a single virtual "dmz" interface
modprobe bonding
ip link set dev dmz up
ifconfig dmz -arp promisc up
ifenslave dmz dmza dmzb

Here's what I get when I run tcpdump against the bonded interface

# tcpdump -i dmz
Open RING [fd=3]
RING (dmz):
tcpdump: WARNING: dmz: no IPv4 address assigned
tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol
listening on dmz, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 96 bytes

(nothing happens, so I hit ctrl-c)

RING: numPollCalls=1 [0.0 packets/call]
RING: [tot_pkts=0][tot_read=0][tot_lost=0]
0 packets captured
0 packets received by filter
0 packets dropped by kernel

Thanks in advance for your thoughts,


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ISC BIND 9.8.2 followup announcement

Dennis Clarke dclarke at
Wed Apr 11 15:42:23 UTC 2012

>> fyi, DLZ external has been broken post 9.8.1p1.  fails to compile with
>> an undefined reference to main.  both for 9.8.2 and 9.9.0
> Thanks for the heads-up.  Please open a bug ticket at bind9-bugs at,
> and include information about the OS you're building on.  I expect this is
> going to turn out to be a quirk of your OS: it's supposed to be building a
> dynamically loadable shared object, but seems to be trying to build an
> executable binary instead.  We'll need to fix it with a change to
> 'configure'.
> (For what it's worth, i.e. very little, it does work on all the platforms
> we routinely test.)

Certainly fine on baseline Solaris 8 on Sparc and i386 and Solaris 10
on Sparc 32-bit and 64-bit bins and x86_64. All with Sun Studio compilers.

So that's a fair test on SUSv3 and/or SVR4 UNIX.

| Dennis Clarke           | Solaris and Linux and Open Source |
| dclarke at   | Respect for open standards.       |

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Business RX: Advice on improving or starting a business

May 21, 2013

Elana Fine, managing director of the Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business, will take your questions. This week, she is joined by special guest Kevin Lenane, an entrepreneur who leads video indexing company Veenome. Together, Fine and Lenane will offer advice on raising capital, luring customers, scaling a business, and any other entrepreneurship topics.

Veenome exists solely to be acquired, having never made a profit. What do you think of the practice today of creating companies knowing full well you have a three year window to be bought out or shuttered?

Nice aggressive opening statement!  However your information is innaccurate as Veenome is a b2b company - and our KPI (key performance metric), so to speak, is revenue.  We do not exist solely to be acquired and in fact have been turning revenue for almost 9 months. At some point this summer we will turn profitable and be well into the 6 figure revenue range per month.

But on to your actual question. I think the practice of building a company solely to be acquired is tough bccause an acquisition is based on a moment. Like at this moment, Yahoo bought Tumblr, but it's not as if the founder of Tumblr had this 5 year plan and Yahoo was at the end of it. It's too hard to predict these point events - people try to, but it's not practical. I would say that if you are keeping a specific acquisition in mind as you create a company and raise money, you drastically raise you odds of running out of money because you haven't build a business that can last. It's basically been built to end in a single point and a million things happen outside of your control in between the point of start and that point perceived that make this outcome super-unlikely.

I'm going to go with Kevin on this one -- I think the "watched pot doesn't boil" cliche applies here.  If you spend all your time thinking about the acquisition -- you won't ever grow a customer base or create value for the acquirer.  That being said, there are some technology companies where once the technology is built, it doesn't make sense to scale a larger manufacturing and sales organization and the founders might look to exit before they even start to build a business.

I have full-time job with a fixed income and benefits. If I start my own business, I lose that fixed income and benefits, so I have the potential to make a lot more or a lot less. I have an idea of what I can charge clients, but no guarantee the pipeline will be as full as I would need it to be. I don't really know all of the potential expenses. How can I compare a known income with a potential income?

Best thing to do is to talk to others in the field to understand the startup expenses, customer acquisition costs and sales cycle.  Next start talking to customers -- would they pay for your services? How much? How often? See how much of a pipeline you can line up before you think about leaving your job.  See if you can do a few pilot engagements while you still have a paycheck.  Get as much information as possible to de-risk - and then determine the jumping off point.

I am considering crowdfunding my new start up. Any risks?

I'd be interested to hear Kevin's thoughts on this...crowdfunding comes up a lot on these chats.  It has pros - great access to larger pool of capital, visibility for your startup, etc.  However, it will be interesting to see how the batton passes when startups go to raise follow on capital.  Often gets hard to chase down investors, etc. and companies might end up with complex cap tables that are less appealing to VC investors.  You could also end up with unsophisticated investors who don't understand the inherent risks of early stage investors.

I think crowdfunding works really well for hardware startups right now. If you want to demonstrate traction on product sales before a product is built, there is no better way to do it than Kickstarter. I think generally crowdfunding like is really exciting too, but those platforms arent quite fully laid out yet. If I were a software entreprenur and wanted to use crowdfunding, I'd consider using it as soon as the first platforms launch before the bad actors get on there.

I think the risks are basically uneducated investors feeling like they've been "burned" and not understanding the incredible riskiness of the startup investment market.

How is raising the initial round of funding different from raising subsequent rounds?

Each round has its own "personality" but I think raising your initial round is a good market test.  Typically companies have raised $$ from friends and family who might be easier to sell because of the personal relationship.  Building interest and trust from strangers, who have a lot of deals to choose from, is an important milestone.  That being said -- that group is going to have much higher expectations and their impression of you as an entrepreneur will have a significant impact on future rounds. Kevin probably has a good perspective on this given the stage of Veenome.

The first round is the hardest - without question. Ive done two subsequent rounds and they were both much easier (and faster) than the first.

Kevin, what has been most surprising about running your own startup? What was harder than you expected?

I'm surprised at the impact that being a founder has had on my energy/attention. If you are really in it for the long haul, you can't put your business away when you get home, go on vacation, go on a bike ride, etc. It's always in a lobe somewhere - and this effect on your energy is pretty major. If you believe in what you are doing, though, it is tolerable. I honestly can't imagine doing a startup that I didn't believe in - I think the psychological impact of that would be very severe.

I noticed from your background that you have worked with startups before, what did you learn from your previous startups that you've applied to launching Veenome?

The biggest takeaway from the last startup was on the biz dev side. At PointAbout we were constantly the smaller company/vendor working with the very large company. The sales cycle is pretty long for larger organizations and I've trained myself to keep a seemingly overwhelming amount of prospects on the burner since we never know when one is going to hook. At any one time you really only have to truly focus on a few and just keep others warm.

It seems obvious, but I think startups get overly focused on one or a few big dollar clients and this can spell doom if you are b2b with a long sales cycle. You simply run out of whatever cash you've raised.

Can you walk me through pre and post-money valuation analysis? My company is worth $1M, and we are looking at raising $1.5M. Also, the investors want to do a convertible note instead of equity? I am confused. Do I need a fancy expensive lawyer??

I guess my question would be: How did you get the 1M number? Early stage valuations are just like a dartboard I think in D.C. you can pick some number, say $3M or $2M and just go with that. If it seems like you are getting pushback, then adjust. The key is to pick a valuation where you don't give away half the company but also so the round goes quickly. If you put your premoney valuation at $20M, it feels nice, but you'll be raising money for a while. Also if your valuation is too high, you pigeon-hole yourself. If you raise on a $20M premoney valuation - then for your investors to get a 5x return you have to sell for $100M, which is so rare and hard to predict.

Anyway just pick a valuation and keep moderately flexible.

Converting debt is just easier in early stage and the docs are cheaper. I would suggest a lawyer but the good ones will do cheap rates for good early stage company.  Cooley is a great local option.

I met an investor who was interested in my product. We've had 3 meetings since my initial pitch, but I can't seem to get him to commit. What are some tactics I can use for "closing the deal" with investors?

Sometimes investors feel bad about saying "no." I can't really explain this phenomenon, must be how they get the "angel" title.  Think of this like a sales process -- at some point you need to ask for an answer.  If there is hesitation, find out what information the investor still needs to know or if they want to wait for additional milestones.  At the early stages, the investors sometimes just know in their gut when they want to write a check.  The "maybes" are always the hardest because they are worried they are going to miss the next big deal so they are just waiting for some sign to make a decision.  Don't spend too much time unless they give you some specific metrics for follow up.  It is like that movie "He's Just Not That in To You." If they don't call, email, tweet back then the timing/fit is probably not right.

I'd also also say if you think you will probably get a no - don't pursue the discussion any further. An investor is more likely to come back after 6 months of "waiting" then reverse their no. Use your intuition and if you think it's a no after 5 unanswered emails, wait it out and swing back when you have more traction...

You mentioned that you were suprised how much mental bandwidth your startup takes -- how have you found early employees that are equally passionate about the business? How do you get them to be thinking about it all the time?

I'm not sure you can find anyone that thinks about it quite as much as the founder, but I think you basically interview carefully and make it worth their while in the long term by giving them plenty(whole number integers) of equity and be successful. Grow the value of those options you give to your employees over time and they will have extreme interest in long term success.

As someone who is so connected to the startup scene, you must have insight into recently launched startups. What are some of your favorite up and coming startups? What do you look for?

Oh there are a couple new ones that I love:

Atlas Wristband - it's like Fitbit for every other exercise besides walking. The prototype is pretty incredible and can tell you how many pushups you are doing or how you swing a golf club. A group of recent Hopkins engineers built it and are raising  seed now.

TrackMaven - Allen Gannett's new company that helps track competitors.

Both are answering such a clear need...

I am a co-founder of a tech startup, and my team is considering relocating to the West Coast when we are ready for venture capital, as we heard that raising funds there is much easier than in the Washington area. What is your take on that?

It is true there aren't as many VC firms in D.C. as the west coast...but there also aren't as many startups (yet). There are a lot of very smart and well capitalized VCs here that are looking for deal flow and often go out of the region because they don't see enough.  I'd say a couple things. 1.) The streets of Silicon Valley aren't paved with gold - You still need to find the right fit and there is a lot of competition. 2). You don't need to relocate the company to raise money.  You might get a lead investor here or vice versa, but your business is better here in the D.C. area due to sector expertise.  3.) Make sure to listen to the feedback you get from local VCs -- there are a lot of smart people here who might have sound advice and are interested in watching your company.

I'd diverge from Elana a little here. It does depend a bit on what you are doing. I'll tell you it's very popular to talk about how hard it is to raise money in D.C.  However, until you've talked to 50, or even better, 100 area investors, you can't really offer a valid opinion because that's really how many you talk to when you first start. The statement sometimes serves to self-fulfill for the entrepreneur, so I'd be careful how much that gets said.

That being said - if you are doing something overtly consumer-oriented - then you wind up having a harder time in D.C. just because generically angels here have less experience with that. This manifests itself in the founder having to do lots of education in their pitching, which slows the process down and creates problems. I think it can be a good idea to go out to the West Coast if you are going to be heavily consumer Web, but you should be aware that you open yourself up to a hell of a lot more social networking for everything  when you are out there. Investors see more noise out there then any place in the world, so it can be hard to get their attention as well.

My partner and I are talking about opening a restaurant. He and I both plan to contribute the same amount of money into the venture. The question is how should we divide ownership of the company? My job will be cooking and all operations, and his job is more on the business side -- keeping the books, marketing, etc. Are there any guidelines on how to go about it? Thank you!

I think it is more about how you want to run the business and make decisions -- seems to be that you are equal partners in the startup.  The success of a restaurant (particularly profitability) is just as much a function of how well you run the business, manage expenses, etc. as it is how good the food  tastes.  Go Dutch -- sounds like a  50/50 split to me :)

There has been a lot more emphasis in both the academic world and the start-up world on the "lean start-up" methodology. How do you define that practice and does it work?

The rise of the "lean startup" is a unique occasion where academic studies on successful startups have led people to rethink how to approach their businesses.  We see a lot of companies focused on putting out a minimal viable product - test quickly and then iterate.  We are actually encouraging companies to think about customers and customer discovery even earlier -- talking to potential customers before you build so you are building the product closer to customer specs/pain points.

What can I say about "lean startup" that hasn't already been said? I think it is definitely a good practice but, boy, people sure are jammed about it in a public way.

As a startup, it's hard to incentivize your team to perform well when progress is slow and cash is low. How can I keep my team motivated, positive, and believing in the company?

Well - I'd definitely reward them with equity. This is hard - you just have to lead by example.  I think it's less about events and more about proving that you are always in it and there. It's a cliche, but lead by example and not by talking.

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Elana Fine
Elana Fine was appointed Managing Director of the Dingman Center in July 2012, after joining the team in 2010 as Director of Venture Investments. As Managing Director, Elana's primary focus is leading the Dingman Center in support of its mission and strategic plan. Key responsibilities include oversight of our student venture incubator, Dingman Center Angels investor network, business competitions, and technology commercialization efforts. Elana earned an MBA in Finance and Accounting from the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business in 2002, and earned a BS in Finance, from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 1997.
Kevin Lenane
Kevin Lenane is the CEO of Veenome and has helped lead the video indexing company to over 50M video views indexed/month. The company won the Paley Center's "Next Big Thing," BB&T Entrepreneur Invitational 2012, and was named one of the three hottest startups of SXSW2012 by CNET. Veenome raised 1.4M in seed capital with investors from Google, Tesla, Chegg, and EcosystemVC. VA. Lenane's previous experience includes product management and business development at Socialize/Appmakr/PointAbout, NAVTEQ and Nokia. He is a veteran of three acquisitions and was legal key in 2011 PointAbout acquisition.
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Eliot got home from his weeklong conference yesterday afternoon.  Whoop!!  He brought Asa a tiny Black Diamond lantern and I got a headlamp.  Score.  Asa spent the rest of the day shutting himself in dark rooms to use his present.  I’ll wear mine December 4th.  I just got my plane ticket for the race.  It’ll be quite the whirlwind trip.  In, out, nobody gets hurt.  (Please!)

I’m glad I signed up for this race.  I’ve gotten over feeling anything but excited about it.  I’ve been thankful to be able to train at all, really.  My foot is still giving me grief, but not too much.  And it’s been good to try to run faster.  My body hasn’t liked the speed work much and I’ve had to back off because of some calf pain.  (Time for Eliot to trade me in for parts.)  But I finally feel like I’m over the hump and on the mend.  Most importantly, signing up for a race in early December has kept my affection for tortilla chips in check.  There is actually an opened bag of tortilla chips in the pantry right now.  And it’s been there for days.  Days!

So what is autograph asking etiquette?  Before or after a race?  Sparkly pen and pink autograph book?  I had the students on my last NOLS course sign a Thermarest that Asa uses as a nap mat at school.  These students were absolutely wonderful, so I asked them to write a short piece of advice for the boy on the mat too.  Do I bring the Thermarest?  Maybe I’ll save that for Bandera.  Better to be wacky on your own turf?

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