It is particularly interesting that governments are all trying to do it *now*, within months of each other. The UK is on its second try, isn't it? Australia's just failed.
I think it isn't just that they think blocking to now be technologically feasible (because it isn't easy to implement effectively). It's other powerful forces in play. Just as Obama and Hollywood are trying to clamp down on the free movement of entertainment data (after DRM and Vista's failure). I tend to agree with those who think this aimed in the short term at enforcing copyright and IP issues. Isn't that the only thing worth enough money to move politicians? But in the long term, who knows..
To repeat the bleeding obvious, the twin bogies of terrorism and child pron are just the sale pitch and having nothing or little to do with this, since this will have little impact on either.
I have a background in other knowledge-based sectors at widely differing levels and scales, often in a facilitatory development or contract management role, before getting involved with software.
Here is some generic advice that relates to any type of project:
1. Document everything and circulate it. Every meeting has brief notes and actions. All decisions are noted. Not everyone will even look at these, that's not the point though - these are are there mainly for you to go back into the history of an issue. This can be a lifesaver. Think about basic principles of QA as these apply to project management: document, document, document some more, and monitor.
2. Use hitlists to capture every pending action and set a due by date and an owner for that action is who responsible for it. This is particularly important for cross-team or multi contractor work, Archive closed actions. Google spreadsheets works well for this - the hitlist becomes the meeting record and automatically sets most of the agenda for the next meeting.
3. Someone needs to be in charge of the schedule, probably you. That needs to be reviewed with the stakeholders and team regularly.
4. Understand that the best laid project plans by mice and men will change in practice. Be flexible and adapt, be pragmatic. Don't get neurotically wed to your plan. Rigidity is death. Don't champion a lost cause or you'll be lost.
5. Be accommodating and allow yourself and other people space to fall into their best roles. Being overly territorial will go badly for you, since these roles in organizations can be subject to very complex political forces. Help move people away from what they don't do well, By the same token, you do it if you know you do it well.
6. When working with senior management, look out for their backs, know when to shut up and when not to (opt for the former whenever in doubt) and give their reuptations plenty of room to grow healthily, or they'll crush you like a fly. The best idea you'll ever have is the one they adopt and champion. Be expansive and generous with ideas with others though this is best done when your boss can hear it. By the same token be careful not to belittle colleagues, though it can happen even without intending it. People can take years to forget a slight, if they ever do.
7. Be proactive. See what needs to be done and start it. Get permission to do it if you can or need to, otherwise it is better to apologize than ask permission when something highly useful is at stake. Head problems off that you are responsible for before they get serious, if you can't then flag that these are coming in advance. Don't drop bad surprises on people in meetings whenever avoidable. Leave other managers problems alone at least in front of others (especially superiors), don't cross territory without discussing it privately first. Keep your team away from work that involves someone that doesn't like you, if they are nasty they may be setting you up for a fall, though for more senior staff this isn't usually worth the effort.
encode2mpeg uses mencoder and can re-encode *anything* to a file, including ARCCOS protected (or whatever) dvds. It takes a little homework to work out how to use the myriad command line switches, but it's an incredibly powerful script.
k9copy (user friendly gui) also can rip these problematic dvds AND copy menus.
OTOH I never had much trouble getting dvd::rip or Acidrip to work, just some practice and homework.
To make sure you get the english soundtrack you just need to add -aid 128 in the mencoder options box in Acidrip.
You also need to make sure Acidrip is patched with the patches from the Ubuntu sources. Acidrip is no longer maintained; those patches fix a number of incompatibilities with relatively recent mplayer versions.
An older dvd commandline copying program that works well is lxdvdrip.
The ex-free love generation does not want censorship now, anymore than they did then. They do not want governments dictating their private lives.
It's not about what they think they want, but about what they actually do..
They (re)elected Howard, Bush and Blair. So the Boomers are are the ones who allowed, nay instigated, the roll back in civil liberties and the growth of police powers that we are currently enjoying and which (I think this to be no exaggeration) can easily threaten the foundations of Western democracy.
My point above is: the moment someone says "Think of the Children" the Boomers hysterically agree with anything, at least at first. At least politicians seem to believe this, the media encourage it, and everyone gets considerable mileage with it. Don't forget this was scuttled by only 1 Senator.
Remember that the Boomers invented a whole different way of thinking about youth when it applied to them. They just don't want it to apply to their children or to their grandchildren..
Freedom's just another word for something your kids shouldn't have because it just might put them at risk (apologies to Messrs Kristofferson and Foster)
Governments seem to be using "Think Of the Children" rather more than the slightly less popular "We'll Arrest You Because Your MP3s Are Illegal".
Like in Australia and the UK, it'll be "Children Are Being Perverted and Harmed and Downright Molestated Because They Just Might see a Nekkid Booty on the World Wide Sex Net and Even If they Don't They Will Be". Ergo: "Let's Filter the Bejeezuz Out of Everything". And there's the whole internet predator boogeyman, even though research has shown it is incredibly unlikely for a child to come across one of these.
I do blame the post-war Baby Boomers for the wave of nanny state repression we are all enduring in the UK, Australia, the US, and elsewhere.
That generation have been running things now for almost 20 years. This was the same generation that benefited so from the emancipation of youth culture in the 60s and into the 70s. They enjoyed sex, drugs and rock and roll, inventing a whole new cultural paradigm out of the Beat Movement of the 50s, tearing down boring conventions, raising hell. When they became politicized, they demanded accountability from authorities and youth participation. Some refused to go to Vietnam and get killed. They demanded the lowering of the drinking age and the age at which you could get a license. They wanted to be treated as adults at 18 or before. They wanted free love, meaning no social restrictions on sexual intercourse. They reveled in the contraceptive Pill. They got all of their demands.
But as they grew a bit older, they got married. As their kids hit teenage years, they panicked, knowing from experience just what they could get up to, because - remember - this generation had already done it all.
Steadily, they began to pull up the ladder they themselves had climbed. They decry the promiscuity of young teenagers, saying it is harmful. What killjoys they became. In many cases, they want to raise the drinking age and the age at which kids can get a drivers license because young people are too "irresponsible". Having themselves fought for 18 to be regarded as the age of majority, now many want to increase that upwards. Having fought to lower the age of consent for themselves, many now want it raised.
This is the ex-free love generation that now wants censorship.
Great to see that common sense has at last prevailed. I would like to see this as a triumph of democracy but it perhaps appears to be as much due to a lucky accident of the numbers in the Senate.
Now, if only the UK would drop its misguided plans to implement filtering of the internet, albeit by different means iirc.
And you in the US - don't think you're far behind. Your bunch of idiots wait to see what oppressive regime the bunch of idiots in Europe can impose on their populace before imposing it on you - at least that is what happened with the idiotic EU data retention laws and the current move in the US to force large numbers of wifi routers to keep logs.
Note that the UK government, usually the leader in Orwellian initiatives, has actually tried to plan for extensive phone call logging (of content!) at the provider level. Google.
Where's the party who doesn't want any of this shit and thinks the government has much, much more important stuff on its plate right now?
Well, it's a dinner party! The important stuff went cold on the bain-marie of the media while the maitre d' of government was busy cramming your plate with shit du jour. Attendance is compulsory, but you'll want to chow down anyway 'coz it's all for the children! Happy eating. Oh - and did someone say a French restaurant would somehow be better...?
Every programmer I meet seems to be into Python. I am probably going to have to learn Python. It's a bit depressing because it is YAS (Yet Another Syntax). Sigh. I don't mind Perl at all, though I feel it could take 10 years to really master Perl.
"I'm going to collaborate with the [insert oppressive regime here] just to prove that the regime is not viable."
Doesn't sound quite right, does it?
A total boycott by all ISPs of this idiodicy would be far more effective.
Dump iNet and all the others immediately, but be sure to email them first and tell them why.
Wherever you want to do an awful lot of things with the input and output of) system utilities and./or bash builtins.
Look at the gargantuan effort that is the Knoppix boot scripts - I seriously doubt it would make sense to rewrite those in Python or Perl, since nearly every line is a pipe between utilities or redirection. And it works well.
The speed of transmission between two synapsed neurons in the human brain is about 1mS. But 1mS is a really long time compared to eg nanosecond instruction seek times in RAM. Yet look what the human brain can get up to, even owned by the average Slashdotter. As Durr says, it's not solely about speed.
Its author (Jari Ruusu) frequents the email list and answers questions. Loop-aes is actively in development and has a changelog. It is highly stable and in general well-regarded.
If you want a wrapper to simplify use, even with multiple encryption, you could try my script tripl, which is about to get an update: http://tripl.sourceforge.net/
Don't forget the Civil War started largely because some states declared they were seceding from the Union. Lincoln's main aim was to keep the Union a union.
I'm not sure your statement on "if [they] are entangled in another dimension" is really meaningful. Entanglement is a property of objects in quantum states.
Well, mathematically speaking quantum states can be construed as existing in a Hilbert space, of which physical "real" space is a subspace. But that is just a construct that gives the right answers. Hilbert space only has a "physical" meaning when a measurement is made (when the so-called "collapse" of the wave function seems to occur). Also, Hilbert spaces of different numbers of dimensions are required to model different problems in QM (and this is true in classical mechanics also). If the poster is asking "do we need more than 3+1 physical dimensions to model some physical entanglement problems in QM?", I think the answer could probably be yes, though it's a long time since I studied QM.
Also, the poster may be thinking of the fascinating Many Worlds interpretation of QM, in which each possible outcome for a measurement exists in a separate parallel universe. This hypothesis has been said to explain by a single photon can interfere with itself - because photons are "aware" of their sister states in parallel universes.
Some things can be solved analytically exactly from second order equations, and some cannot, depending on the theory used to represent the system.A wonderful example iirc is the spinning top. In classical mechanics, the top cannot be solved exactly. Someone (Felix Klein? or was it Lagrange?) wrote a whole book on it. But in general relativity, the top can be solved exactly in about one page.What we have is that classical mechanics is a particular approximation of general relativity, at one end of the scale, and of quantum mechanics, at the other. We don't have one theory that fits the behavior of everything. We have a set of theories that work in particular circumstances.The designer, then, still has the last laugh, until there is a TOE, if there ever is.
PS: Which is not to say that child porn is not evil. But inappropriate, misdirected controls against the general web like this so clearly achieve nothing other than serve another agenda of control.
The timeline is more complicated. They started the "war" on child porn first as I recall, about the time the "war" on drugs was widely acknowledged as the arrant sham that all the bogus "wars" seem to be. Anyway the drugs war didn't have potential to provide excuses for control of the internet and communications. It was mainly used for justifying dubious interventions in countries to the south of the US (still is), as a means of ensuring enormous tax-free revenues for organized crime (legalization would cripple drug income), and as a means of jailing and oppressing large numbers of African Americans.The "war" on terrorism, while it had other uses, also seemed to start about the time the "war" on child porn was failing to provide sufficient internet control traction - probably because the means were not available to control the internet then. These means are not fully available now either of course, but the juggernaut has a life of its own, the internet is far more pervasive, and politicians are as silly as ever
It is also worth noting that the whole child porn and censorship thing started to arise as a major issue when the then war on adult pornography - mainly waged by an unlikely coalition of fundamentalist christians and militant separatist feminists in the 1980s - was in the process of utterly failing, prior to the rise of the ubiquitous internet. Outside of Islamic countries, that old war has been well and truly lost, and besides that industry was simply worth too much money to interfere with Repressive forces that had aligned themselves with that war simply moved on to ride the bandwagon of the new wars. The war on child porn was a perfect vehicle, piggybacking nicely on the child abuse witch hunt phenomenon. They began by criminalizing formerly 100% legal depictions of 16-17yo teens in sexual activity in many countries, thus rendering millions of images illegal, then they moved on to try to criminalize formerly 100% legal nudist and art photography images, only sometimes failing in that endeavor.
In short, the frontal beat up on adult porn failed to be useful,so they are using the war on child porn to obtain more broader controls.
AFAIK so far there's no scientific theory to explain "self awareness"/"consciousness", and I suspect it's the very first observation all scientists make - observation of self. Why should there be such a phenomenon in the first place?
In "The Emperor's New Mind", theoretical physicist Roger Penrose implies that consciousness is somehow a quantum mechanical phenomenon and at any rate is highly special mathematically speaking, since, essentially, consciousness is a thing that devises algorithms. However, Godel's theorem can be interpreted to mean that there is no algorithm to generate algorithms in any sense that will run on a Turing machine.
Ergo, consciousness is not software. The "I" that perceives the I is not a machine. Spooky, eh? It's "I think, therefore I compute", not the other way around.
At least that's how I interpreted what he was saying, but as I recall, at no point in the book does he actually *say* that. He just lays down the train of thought and lets the reader draw the inference.
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I think it isn't just that they think blocking to now be technologically feasible (because it isn't easy to implement effectively). It's other powerful forces in play. Just as Obama and Hollywood are trying to clamp down on the free movement of entertainment data (after DRM and Vista's failure). I tend to agree with those who think this aimed in the short term at enforcing copyright and IP issues. Isn't that the only thing worth enough money to move politicians? But in the long term, who knows ..
To repeat the bleeding obvious, the twin bogies of terrorism and child pron are just the sale pitch and having nothing or little to do with this, since this will have little impact on either.
Here is some generic advice that relates to any type of project:
1. Document everything and circulate it. Every meeting has brief notes and actions. All decisions are noted. Not everyone will even look at these, that's not the point though - these are are there mainly for you to go back into the history of an issue. This can be a lifesaver. Think about basic principles of QA as these apply to project management: document, document, document some more, and monitor.
2. Use hitlists to capture every pending action and set a due by date and an owner for that action is who responsible for it. This is particularly important for cross-team or multi contractor work, Archive closed actions. Google spreadsheets works well for this - the hitlist becomes the meeting record and automatically sets most of the agenda for the next meeting.
3. Someone needs to be in charge of the schedule, probably you. That needs to be reviewed with the stakeholders and team regularly.
4. Understand that the best laid project plans by mice and men will change in practice. Be flexible and adapt, be pragmatic. Don't get neurotically wed to your plan. Rigidity is death. Don't champion a lost cause or you'll be lost.
5. Be accommodating and allow yourself and other people space to fall into their best roles. Being overly territorial will go badly for you, since these roles in organizations can be subject to very complex political forces. Help move people away from what they don't do well, By the same token, you do it if you know you do it well.
6. When working with senior management, look out for their backs, know when to shut up and when not to (opt for the former whenever in doubt) and give their reuptations plenty of room to grow healthily, or they'll crush you like a fly. The best idea you'll ever have is the one they adopt and champion. Be expansive and generous with ideas with others though this is best done when your boss can hear it. By the same token be careful not to belittle colleagues, though it can happen even without intending it. People can take years to forget a slight, if they ever do.
7. Be proactive. See what needs to be done and start it. Get permission to do it if you can or need to, otherwise it is better to apologize than ask permission when something highly useful is at stake. Head problems off that you are responsible for before they get serious, if you can't then flag that these are coming in advance. Don't drop bad surprises on people in meetings whenever avoidable. Leave other managers problems alone at least in front of others (especially superiors), don't cross territory without discussing it privately first. Keep your team away from work that involves someone that doesn't like you, if they are nasty they may be setting you up for a fall, though for more senior staff this isn't usually worth the effort.
encode2mpeg uses mencoder and can re-encode *anything* to a file, including ARCCOS protected (or whatever) dvds. It takes a little homework to work out how to use the myriad command line switches, but it's an incredibly powerful script. k9copy (user friendly gui) also can rip these problematic dvds AND copy menus. OTOH I never had much trouble getting dvd::rip or Acidrip to work, just some practice and homework. To make sure you get the english soundtrack you just need to add -aid 128 in the mencoder options box in Acidrip. You also need to make sure Acidrip is patched with the patches from the Ubuntu sources. Acidrip is no longer maintained; those patches fix a number of incompatibilities with relatively recent mplayer versions. An older dvd commandline copying program that works well is lxdvdrip.
IIRC the vagina only contains stretch receptors, no touch receptors. So, internally, the vagina does sense distention.
The ex-free love generation does not want censorship now, anymore than they did then. They do not want governments dictating their private lives.
It's not about what they think they want, but about what they actually do..
They (re)elected Howard, Bush and Blair. So the Boomers are are the ones who allowed, nay instigated, the roll back in civil liberties and the growth of police powers that we are currently enjoying and which (I think this to be no exaggeration) can easily threaten the foundations of Western democracy.
My point above is: the moment someone says "Think of the Children" the Boomers hysterically agree with anything, at least at first. At least politicians seem to believe this, the media encourage it, and everyone gets considerable mileage with it. Don't forget this was scuttled by only 1 Senator.
Remember that the Boomers invented a whole different way of thinking about youth when it applied to them. They just don't want it to apply to their children or to their grandchildren. .
Freedom's just another word for something your kids shouldn't have because it just might put them at risk (apologies to Messrs Kristofferson and Foster)
ongoing piracy as the illegal activity
Governments seem to be using "Think Of the Children" rather more than the slightly less popular "We'll Arrest You Because Your MP3s Are Illegal".
Like in Australia and the UK, it'll be "Children Are Being Perverted and Harmed and Downright Molestated Because They Just Might see a Nekkid Booty on the World Wide Sex Net and Even If they Don't They Will Be". Ergo: "Let's Filter the Bejeezuz Out of Everything". And there's the whole internet predator boogeyman, even though research has shown it is incredibly unlikely for a child to come across one of these.
as much due to a lucky accident of the numbers in the Senate
That's your one man.
That generation have been running things now for almost 20 years. This was the same generation that benefited so from the emancipation of youth culture in the 60s and into the 70s. They enjoyed sex, drugs and rock and roll, inventing a whole new cultural paradigm out of the Beat Movement of the 50s, tearing down boring conventions, raising hell. When they became politicized, they demanded accountability from authorities and youth participation. Some refused to go to Vietnam and get killed. They demanded the lowering of the drinking age and the age at which you could get a license. They wanted to be treated as adults at 18 or before. They wanted free love, meaning no social restrictions on sexual intercourse. They reveled in the contraceptive Pill. They got all of their demands.
But as they grew a bit older, they got married. As their kids hit teenage years, they panicked, knowing from experience just what they could get up to, because - remember - this generation had already done it all.
Steadily, they began to pull up the ladder they themselves had climbed. They decry the promiscuity of young teenagers, saying it is harmful. What killjoys they became. In many cases, they want to raise the drinking age and the age at which kids can get a drivers license because young people are too "irresponsible". Having themselves fought for 18 to be regarded as the age of majority, now many want to increase that upwards. Having fought to lower the age of consent for themselves, many now want it raised.
This is the ex-free love generation that now wants censorship.
Great to see that common sense has at last prevailed. I would like to see this as a triumph of democracy but it perhaps appears to be as much due to a lucky accident of the numbers in the Senate. Now, if only the UK would drop its misguided plans to implement filtering of the internet, albeit by different means iirc. And you in the US - don't think you're far behind. Your bunch of idiots wait to see what oppressive regime the bunch of idiots in Europe can impose on their populace before imposing it on you - at least that is what happened with the idiotic EU data retention laws and the current move in the US to force large numbers of wifi routers to keep logs.
Note that the UK government, usually the leader in Orwellian initiatives, has actually tried to plan for extensive phone call logging (of content!) at the provider level. Google.
Big government wants the private sector to take over and fund the exploitation of space anyway, ever since the public got bored with moon landings.
Where's the party who doesn't want any of this shit and thinks the government has much, much more important stuff on its plate right now?
Well, it's a dinner party! The important stuff went cold on the bain-marie of the media while the maitre d' of government was busy cramming your plate with shit du jour. Attendance is compulsory, but you'll want to chow down anyway 'coz it's all for the children! Happy eating. Oh - and did someone say a French restaurant would somehow be better ...?
Every programmer I meet seems to be into Python. I am probably going to have to learn Python. It's a bit depressing because it is YAS (Yet Another Syntax). Sigh. I don't mind Perl at all, though I feel it could take 10 years to really master Perl.
Excellent LOL
"I'm going to collaborate with the [insert oppressive regime here] just to prove that the regime is not viable." Doesn't sound quite right, does it? A total boycott by all ISPs of this idiodicy would be far more effective. Dump iNet and all the others immediately, but be sure to email them first and tell them why.
Wherever you want to do an awful lot of things with the input and output of) system utilities and./or bash builtins. Look at the gargantuan effort that is the Knoppix boot scripts - I seriously doubt it would make sense to rewrite those in Python or Perl, since nearly every line is a pipe between utilities or redirection. And it works well.
The speed of transmission between two synapsed neurons in the human brain is about 1mS. But 1mS is a really long time compared to eg nanosecond instruction seek times in RAM. Yet look what the human brain can get up to, even owned by the average Slashdotter. As Durr says, it's not solely about speed.
Its author (Jari Ruusu) frequents the email list and answers questions. Loop-aes is actively in development and has a changelog. It is highly stable and in general well-regarded.
If you want a wrapper to simplify use, even with multiple encryption, you could try my script tripl, which is about to get an update: http://tripl.sourceforge.net/
Don't forget the Civil War started largely because some states declared they were seceding from the Union. Lincoln's main aim was to keep the Union a union.
I'm not sure your statement on "if [they] are entangled in another dimension" is really meaningful. Entanglement is a property of objects in quantum states.
Well, mathematically speaking quantum states can be construed as existing in a Hilbert space, of which physical "real" space is a subspace. But that is just a construct that gives the right answers. Hilbert space only has a "physical" meaning when a measurement is made (when the so-called "collapse" of the wave function seems to occur). Also, Hilbert spaces of different numbers of dimensions are required to model different problems in QM (and this is true in classical mechanics also). If the poster is asking "do we need more than 3+1 physical dimensions to model some physical entanglement problems in QM?", I think the answer could probably be yes, though it's a long time since I studied QM.
Also, the poster may be thinking of the fascinating Many Worlds interpretation of QM, in which each possible outcome for a measurement exists in a separate parallel universe. This hypothesis has been said to explain by a single photon can interfere with itself - because photons are "aware" of their sister states in parallel universes.
Some things can be solved analytically exactly from second order equations, and some cannot, depending on the theory used to represent the system.A wonderful example iirc is the spinning top. In classical mechanics, the top cannot be solved exactly. Someone (Felix Klein? or was it Lagrange?) wrote a whole book on it. But in general relativity, the top can be solved exactly in about one page.What we have is that classical mechanics is a particular approximation of general relativity, at one end of the scale, and of quantum mechanics, at the other. We don't have one theory that fits the behavior of everything. We have a set of theories that work in particular circumstances.The designer, then, still has the last laugh, until there is a TOE, if there ever is.
PS: Which is not to say that child porn is not evil. But inappropriate, misdirected controls against the general web like this so clearly achieve nothing other than serve another agenda of control.
The timeline is more complicated. They started the "war" on child porn first as I recall, about the time the "war" on drugs was widely acknowledged as the arrant sham that all the bogus "wars" seem to be. Anyway the drugs war didn't have potential to provide excuses for control of the internet and communications. It was mainly used for justifying dubious interventions in countries to the south of the US (still is), as a means of ensuring enormous tax-free revenues for organized crime (legalization would cripple drug income), and as a means of jailing and oppressing large numbers of African Americans.The "war" on terrorism, while it had other uses, also seemed to start about the time the "war" on child porn was failing to provide sufficient internet control traction - probably because the means were not available to control the internet then. These means are not fully available now either of course, but the juggernaut has a life of its own, the internet is far more pervasive, and politicians are as silly as ever
It is also worth noting that the whole child porn and censorship thing started to arise as a major issue when the then war on adult pornography - mainly waged by an unlikely coalition of fundamentalist christians and militant separatist feminists in the 1980s - was in the process of utterly failing, prior to the rise of the ubiquitous internet. Outside of Islamic countries, that old war has been well and truly lost, and besides that industry was simply worth too much money to interfere with Repressive forces that had aligned themselves with that war simply moved on to ride the bandwagon of the new wars. The war on child porn was a perfect vehicle, piggybacking nicely on the child abuse witch hunt phenomenon. They began by criminalizing formerly 100% legal depictions of 16-17yo teens in sexual activity in many countries, thus rendering millions of images illegal, then they moved on to try to criminalize formerly 100% legal nudist and art photography images, only sometimes failing in that endeavor.
In short, the frontal beat up on adult porn failed to be useful,so they are using the war on child porn to obtain more broader controls.
Oh, and the Taj Mahal really is the most beautiful building on earth.
AFAIK so far there's no scientific theory to explain "self awareness"/"consciousness", and I suspect it's the very first observation all scientists make - observation of self. Why should there be such a phenomenon in the first place?
In "The Emperor's New Mind", theoretical physicist Roger Penrose implies that consciousness is somehow a quantum mechanical phenomenon and at any rate is highly special mathematically speaking, since, essentially, consciousness is a thing that devises algorithms. However, Godel's theorem can be interpreted to mean that there is no algorithm to generate algorithms in any sense that will run on a Turing machine. Ergo, consciousness is not software. The "I" that perceives the I is not a machine. Spooky, eh? It's "I think, therefore I compute", not the other way around. At least that's how I interpreted what he was saying, but as I recall, at no point in the book does he actually *say* that. He just lays down the train of thought and lets the reader draw the inference.