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2013/02/192013/02/19

John Robb: Life in the Networked Age — P2P versus Google-zilla

Life in a Networked Age Posted: 18 Feb 2013 12:11 PM PST Here’s some idle thinking for a sunny afternoon at the end of winter. To access it, let’s make a simple assumption that economics, politics, and warfare are all a function of the dominant technological substrate. A technological substrate is the family of related …

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2013/02/182014/01/02

INTELLIGENCE with INTEGRITY Chapter 4: Four Domains for Applied Intelligence

Utilizar el Traductor de Google en la parte superior de la columna central Utilisez Google Translate au haut de la colonne du milieu Google’ın Orta Sütun Top of Çevir kullanın Используйте Google Translate в верхней части среднего столбца Sử dụng Google Translate Đầu Cột Trung उपयोग Google मध्य स्तंभ के शीर्ष पर अनुवाद 在中间一列的顶部，使用谷歌翻译 استخدام …

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2013/02/122013/02/12

John Steiner: What Democracy Lost in 2012

What Democracy Lost in 2012 No matter the outcome, big money and voter suppression crippled the election. This is no way to run the world’s oldest democracy. Bob Moser American Prospert, January 28, 2013 Last November 7, a syndicated cartoon made the rounds in progressive circles. Drawn by Signe Wilkinson, it showed a battered, bruised, …

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2013/02/022013/02/02

Worth a Look: Google Glasses Concept Video

2013/01/272013/01/27

DefDog: CyberCom is a Joke. Does Boosting Its Numbers Fivefold Make it a Travesty? Memo to Hagel: Start Here.

Cybercom is a joke. This is insane. Pentagon to boost cybersecurity force By Ellen Nakashima, Sunday, January 27, 5:42 PM The Pentagon has approved a major expansion of its cybersecurity force over the next several years, increasing its size more than fivefold to bolster the nation’s ability to defend critical computer systems and conduct offensive computer …

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2013/01/262013/01/26

Berto Jongman: Coding Freedom – Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking

Recommended reading. An anthropologist explains how hackers are changing the definition of freedom David Hutchinson Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking, by E. Gabriella Coleman, dives into the ocean of software hacking: its culture, personalities, and craft. But it’s also a legal history of hacking (modifying code) and cracking (illegally modifying code). Working …

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2013/01/162013/01/16

Owl: Aaron Swartz — Prosecutors as Persecutors — Call to End All Donations to MIT — Burn MIT to the Ground, Metaphorically Speaking

Following up on the excellent post, Mongoose: Moti Nissani on Who Killed Aaron Swartz? it is now clear MIT refuses to cut any kind of deal, and the prosecutor went nuclear on what should have been a matchbook case. Now it emerges that the prosecutor going after Swartz went after another young man involved with …

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