The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
This student put 50 million stolen research articles online. And they’re free. Alexandra Elbakyan is a highbrow pirate in hiding. The 27-year-old graduate student from Kazakhstan is operating a searchable online database of nearly 50 million stolen scholarly journal articles, shattering the $10 billion-per-year paywall of academic publishers. . . . . . “While we …
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Robert Steele: Should Open Source Code Have a PayPal Address & AON Sliding Scale Rate Sheet? UPDATE 2 Creative Commons remains the single most brilliant contribution to the licensing conversation surrounding open source code, but it is not good enough. Anything that requires direct reach-back from a user to a coder will not scale, and …
Amazon Web Services: Crushing the Competition? I read “Attack! Run. WTF? A Decade of Enterprise Class Fear and Uncertainty with AWS.” I am not sure if Amazon’s Web Services’ business is being praised or criticized. Nevertheless, the write up has some interesting factoids. I highlighted these statements: read full post
ISOC Future of the Internet – My Take For questions 6-10, please describe the greatest forces of change that you believe will affect the future of the Internet over the coming five to seven years.
OMB Source Code Comment: Do the Right Thing – An Open Source (Technologies) Agency As submitted in response to OMB’s Request for Comment (RFC). PLEASE use the share buttons below or this goes nowhere….thanks.
MaidSafe – Their aim is to make the internet a more secure place and to store data permanently on users’ computers… Meet the men who have rewritten the internet The autonomous network they created – called SAFE – has just, after 10 years development, been released as a minimum viable product consisting of a launcher, a …
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Cryptosecession and the limits of taxation Cryptosecession is the use of cryptographic and blockchain-based technologies (e.g. Bitcoin, Ethereum, Bitnation) to economically secede from incumbent institutions—namely, the state. Jason is at the 2016 Public Choice Society conference at the moment, where he’ll be presenting a paper in which we show that the threat of cryptosecession exerts an even greater limitation on …
