The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
JOURNAL: The Education Bubble Peter Thiel (Paypal and other ventures) has been making some waves for his position that higher education in the US is the next bubble. In short, he’s right. Given what we now have available in terms of tools, it should be possible to get an Ivy league education for $20 a …
Liberation technology: dreams, politics, history Armine Ishkanian, 5 April 2011 openDemocracy The doctrinal commitment to new cyber and social technologies as a means of solving political problems needs to learn from the past and take a more realistic view, says Armine Ishkanian. Read full article with many links. From Google Group The Next Net: I …
FROM Electronic Frontier Foundation: On Monday, April 11, 2011, we launched a petition to the largest Internet companies asking them to stand with their users and be transparent in their practices. Here’s a chart showing how we think each of the companies is doing right now — a gold star indicates that the company is …
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Wasting the digital dividend The internet means that many time-consuming forms of white-collar drudgery have disappeared, or at least been offloaded to cheaper people who aren’t you, permitting you to spend more time on things that are actually productive and highly leveraged. No more standing in line at the copier, trudging to the Fedex box, …
How is SSL hopelessly broken? Let us count the ways Blunders expose huge cracks in net’s trust foundation By Dan Goodin in San Francisco • Get more from this author Posted in Security, 11th April 2011 03:00 GMT Phi Beta Iota: Instead of spending $12 billion on cyber-attack and trying to defend 1970’s technology created by …
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Freed journalist: Iranian regime’s ‘information fears’ Maziar Bahari faces jail if he returns to Iran Iranian journalist Maziar Bahari was held in a Tehran jail for 118 days in 2009. His arrest came as he worked for western media outlets, including BBC Panorama. In this analysis, Mr Bahari explains why the regime fears information, the …
“The National Conversation” Debuts The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars has announced a new initiative launching April 8, 2011: The National Conversation at the Woodrow Wilson Center. The National Conversation will examine overarching themes of U.S. international and domestic policy, drawing on high-profile guests and experts from all sides of the political sphere to …
