The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
I am always amazed when people tell me IO doesn’t work and then I see things such as this….I guess what they are really saying is incompetence doesn’t work….. Kony 2012: The anatomy of a viral campaign Hayley Tsukayama Washington Post, 9 March 2012 A particularly savvy media campaign by a nonprofit group called Invisible …
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Nanotrees harvest the sun’s energy to turn water into hydrogen fuel (PhysOrg.com) — University of California, San Diego electrical engineers are building a forest of tiny nanowire trees in order to cleanly capture solar energy without using fossil fuels and harvest it for hydrogen fuel generation. Reporting in the journal Nanoscale, the team said nanowires, …
Australian spies buying computer bugs: sources Cynthia Karena Sydney Morning Herald, 8 March 2012 Cyber criminals are not the only ones buying software flaws, say sources. The Australian government is buying computer security weaknesses found by hackers before they are sold on the black market, as part of its defence strategy, claim those at the …
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How Children’s Toys Reflect What’s Next in Technology & Education, March 5, 2012, PRAGMATIC VISIONS | by Jim Brazell [Editor’s note: This is the first in a new column series from the pragmatic visionaries at the Thornburg Center for Professional Development for edtech digest] “The availability of technologies to youth is its own instructor.” –Nobelist …
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Top LulzSec hacker was FBI informant Leader of Anonymous-linked group helped investigators to identify fellow hackers, as five others charged in New York. Read full story. Phi Beta Iota: The “estimates” of damages continue to be grotesquely inflated. The various governments continue to focus on enforcing archaic laws rather than demanding the upgrade of archaic …
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TELL OTHERS: SHORT URL: http://tinyurl.com/GWU-OSE The George Washington University: University Seminar on Reflexive Systems Thursday, March 15 from 10:00 am – 12:00 pm (coffee provided, lunch afterward) Funger Hall, Room 320 2201 G Street NW THE OPEN SOURCE EVERYTHING MANIFESTO: Coping with Complexity via Transparency, Truth, & Trust PLUS (See Below the Line) 2 Briefings, …
NASA lost ‘full control’ to hackers, pwned 13 times last year Houston still has a problem with security By John Leyden The Register, 5 March 2012 Cybercrooks broke into NASA’s computer systems 13 times last year gaining “full functional control” of important systems in the worse cases, according to the testimony before the US Congress …
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