James Wall: Israel to Palestine is as Britain to Slavery – “Throw Their Dirty Little Ships Out of the Water” — Tide Turning Against Israeli Atrocities

Sunday, April 22nd, 2012 | Posted by Veterans Today “Throw Their Dirty, Filthy Ships Out of the Water!” Historical parallels are never exact. But it is not unusual for us to see moments from the past resonating with moments of the present. by James M Wall About the author: James M. Wall is currently a Contributing …

Yoda: Real-Time Crowd-Sourcing + Twitter Meta-RECAP

How to Perfect Real-Time Crowdsourcing The new techniques behind instant crowdsourcing makes human intelligence available on demand for the first time. One of the great goals of computer science is to embed human-like intelligence in common applications like image processing, robotic control and so on. Until recently the focus has been to develop an artificial …

Gary North: Do NOT Under-Estimate Bernanke’s Ignorance

Ben Bernanke’s Judy Garland Impersonation by Gary North “Somewhere, over the rainbow, way up high.” Federal Reserve Board chairman Ben Bernanke delivered a speech on April 13 on “Rethinking Finance.” It certainly needs to be rethought at the highest levels. Unfortunately, Dr. Bernanke has not yet begun the process. Thinking, yes. Not rethinking. He ended …

Event: 16-19 July Las Vegas 2012 International Conference on Internet Computing

2012 International Conference on Internet Computing Dates: Jul 16 – 19, 2012 Location: Las Vegas, Nevada   Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: Social networks Next generation of internet + modeling and analysis Traffic models and statistics Metacomputing Electronic commerce and internet Resource management and location Design and analysis of …

Richard Stallman: Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software 1.1

ROBERT STEELE:  I thought F/OSS had merged as a meme.  Now I understand you to mean that while both have practical similarities in outcomes, the underlying ethics are completely different. RICHARD STALLMAN: Nothing has changed.  The free software movement remains what it has always been since 1983: an ethical and political campaign for freedom for …