[governance] Joe Femming - Universities & emancipation of knowledge over power

[Max Senges]

Dear all

Constant technological change
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Even though I agree that Jims messages are provocative/rude, very cryptic
and not focused on the tunis negotiations, the technology projects he is
referring to are serious and respectable. I would argue, they highlight one
important point - whatever modes of technological operation the internet is
currently in - it might well be that it is another tomorrow (at least if
progress, development and flexibility is not hampered by dinosaur
institutions and bureaucracy etc.)

Cosmopolitan Citizenship
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The technological platform will always change but what should be consistent
is the open humanitarian spirit of cyberspace. Therefore I believe (as
outlined in my last mail) it is important to develop Civil Societies vision
of the social interaction space and discuss how international discourse can
be organised.


Role of universities
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Let me elaborate one moment on the role of universities in particular: “the
university has entered the transformative project of modernity” After the
critiques of Habermas, Marcuse and Touraine, the university needs to become
the zone of engagement between power and knowledge, politics and culture.
(Challenging Knowledge: The university in the knowledge society, Delanty
2001: 73)

With more and more people participating in higher education, the reach and
influence of universities is enormous. It is not a social revolution which
is needed (as intended by the actors of the student movement of the 60' and
70'), but universities should be the site for discussion and reflection and
possible the fertile ground for the emergence and communication of a vision
and ideals for the 21. century.   

Max



-----Original Message-----
From: governance-bounces at lists.cpsr.org
[mailto:governance-bounces at lists.cpsr.org] On Behalf Of Jim Fleming
Sent: miércoles, 19 de octubre de 2005 14:45
To: governance at lists.cpsr.org
Subject: [governance] Uni.X to Uni.X .NETworking - Sending 1 Byte
InstantMessages With a Check-Sum

Uni.X to Uni.X .NETworking - Sending 1 Byte Instant Messages With a
Check-Sum

Given the 160 bit Uni.X to Uni.X .NETworking message format for the NOP
Protocol:

PP=00

SSDD.SSDD.SSSSDDDD.SSSDDD.LLBBBBBBBB
SSSSSSSDDDDDDD.SD.DDSS.SSSSSSDDDDDD
SDSDGTTT.00SSSDDD.CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC
SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

LL=01

BBBBBBBB is the 1 byte of data and the Check-Sum CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC
is still encoded.

Assuming: 20+32+12

2 - Fixed 01  <<<<< From half of the First 4 Bits
2 - Fixed 01
4 - Now
3 - Fixed 000
7 - Now
2 - Fixed 11
<<<< 32-bits >>>>
1 - Fixed 0
6 - Fixed 000000
1 - Fixed 0
1 - Fixed 1
3 - Now

Note: There is no 16-bit extended addressing that comes from the
Socket-Abstraction
code-bloat. The 160-bits are a self-contained message. Each time you hit a
key, a message
is sent. The byte is 8 bits. To deliver that byte end-to-end with some
reliability takes
about twenty times more bits. If you want to talk and type, that is
supported and it does
not add to the number of bits required.

By the way, the messages have not changed in 30+ years.
http://devnet.developerpipeline.com/documents/s=9852/q=1/cuj0506mach/
"Nearly all problems converting code to 64 bit can be summarized in one
simple rule: Do not assume that long, int, and pointers have the same size.
Any code violating this rule will cause various subtle problems in your
application when running under an LP64 data model that will be difficult to
track down."

Also, by the way, are you aware of what THE Big Lie Society never wants you
to see ?
http://www.ddj.com/articles/1993/9310/
The C+@ Programming Language
Jim Fleming
C+@ (pronounced "cat"), an object-oriented language out of AT&T Bell Labs,
has the syntax of C and the power of Smalltalk. Unlike C++, however, C+@
includes a library of more than 350 classes.

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