February 2011
The 123,000 MPH Plasma Engine That Could Finally... →
All astronauts have big dreams, but Franklin Chang Díaz’s dreams are huge. As a college student, as a 25-year astronaut and as an entrepreneur, his single animating intention has always been to build—and fly—a rocketship to Mars. “Of course I wanted to be an astronaut, and of course I want to be able to fly in this,” he says of his plasma-thrust rocket. “I mean, I just can’t imagine not...
January 2011
A Message to the United States Government from... →
To the members of the United States government:
The eyes of the world currently rest upon the democratic reformation occurring in the Arab Republic of Egypt. As you very well know, these unfolding events are not to your strategic or political advantage. In contrast to your administration, we, the members of Anonymous, stand in support of the Egyptian revolution. We ask that you do the...
British Scientists Invent Hydrogen Based and... →
‘We have developed micro-beads that can be used in an existing gasoline or petrol vehicle to replace oil-based fuels. Early indications are that the micro-beads can be used in existing vehicles without engine modification. The materials are hydrogen-based, and so when used produce no carbon emissions at the point of use, in a similar way to electric vehicles.’
MODUS PONENS: Just sent this letter to my would-be... →
Dr H: My apologies for the delay in sending this to you. I thought I sent this message earlier but it appears I only saved it as a draft. I am regretful to inform you I do not wish to continue my research. The reason for this is that after doing much studying on the topic of economics, I have…
Al Jazeera English Blacked Out Across Most Of U.S. →
Cable companies are also worried, said Burman, that they will lose more subscribers than they will gain by granting access to Al Jazeera. The Canadian experience, he said, should put those fears to rest. In Canada, national regulators can require cable companies to provide certain channels and Al Jazeera ran a successful campaign to encourage Canadians to push the government to intervene....
Diversity and Its Discontents →
Despite such unpleasant tidings, however, he remained essentially optimistic about America’s long-term prospects. Xenophobia was on the rise, but Huntington continued to stick with the longstanding liberal line that immigration and diversity were positive and that there was no ethnic group that an open and dynamic America could not absorb. Rather than an ethnic state, he wrote in...
U of M computer science researchers provide... →
In most cases, social network analysis today is limited to discovering friend connections, community leaders and outlines, influential people and personal friend recommendations using a static or snap-shot method. The authors say that if new factors could be taken into consideration, specifically changes across time and space, this could help social network analysis better understand why,...
Wikileaks ISP refuses data hand-out to Swedish... →
The Swedish ISP, hosts Wikileaks, has, according to TorrentFreak, announced that it will run all customer traffic through an encrypted VPN service. This means that logging what their users get up to will be impossible for now and will prevent law enforcement agencies from being able to retrieve information on users’ activities.
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A list of open source ad-hoc network and routing... →
Providing local information during an “internet kill switch”.
Due to recent events in Egypt and the speed of the shutdown.
Most of these projects are open to contribution and further development.
B.A.T.M.A.N – http://www.open-mesh.org/
Roofnet | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roofnet
GNUnet | https://gnunet.org/
Netsukuku | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netsukuku
Open Mesh Project |...
Mohandas Gandhi: An Open Letter to President... →
thenoobyorker:
Dear President Obama:
As political scientists, historians, and researchers in related fields who have studied the Middle East and U.S. foreign policy, we the undersigned believe you have a chance to move beyond rhetoric to support the democratic movement sweeping over Egypt….
The Drug Store in Your Tap Water « SpeakEasy →
anti-propaganda:
‘While pharma and water treatment professionals routinely deny the existence of prescription drugs in public waterways and drinking water — easy to do when they are not tested for anyway! — Mary Buzby director of environmental technology for pharma giant Merck was a little more candid in 2007. “There’s no doubt about it, pharmaceuticals are being detected in the environment and...
Anonymous arrests shine a light on some (much)... →
This is plainly not the case in relation to the US Government. The Obama Adminstration, which began with such high hopes of a genuine change from the Bush years, frequently appears indistinguishable from its predecessor in its casual attitude toward the rule of law in matters large-scale and small. For example, it has:
declined to investigate Bush Administration officials who oversaw the...
Share, Chat, Browse. Anonymously. On the Free... →
Freenet is free software which lets you anonymously share files, browse and publish “freesites” (web sites accessible only through Freenet) and chat on forums, without fear of censorship. Freenet is decentralised to make it less vulnerable to attack, and if used in “darknet” mode, where users only connect to their friends, is very difficult to detect.
Adblock Plus: Save your time and traffic →
Annoyed by adverts? Troubled by tracking? Bothered by banners? Install Adblock Plus now to regain control of the internet and change the way that you view the web. You can also choose from over forty filter subscriptions to automatically configure the add-on for purposes ranging from removing online advertising to blocking all known malware domains.
raccoonology:
This non-conformity looks like conformity.
Plankton inspires creation of stealth armour for... →
The Warwick researchers hit on a surprisingly simple and highly effective method of adding a range of different types of additional armour to the polymer based vesicles. One of those armour types was a highly regular packed layer of microscopic polystyrene balls. This configuration meant the researchers could design a vesicle which had an additional and precise permeable reinforced barrier...
From Big Ag to Big Organics: Welcome to Monsanto’s... →
In the wake of a 12-year battle to keep Monsanto’s Genetically Engineered (GE) crops from contaminating the nation’s 25,000 organic farms and ranches, America’s organic consumers and producers are facing betrayal. A self-appointed cabal of the Organic Elite, spearheaded by Whole Foods Market, Organic Valley, and Stonyfield Farm, has decided it’s time to surrender to Monsanto. Top...
Pro-Democracy Revolutions a Big Problem for US... →
For decades it seemed that the US was able to keep its authoritarian allies propped up more or less indefinitely, but the simmering unrest combined with crumbling economies across the region have combined to produce a region-wide phenomenon, where every US-backed dictator appears at risk.
tecosystems because technology is just another... →
Two weeks ago, iHackerNews.com (a creation of Ronnie Roller) made available a Hacker News related dataset via bittorrent. For those of you unfamiliar with Hacker News, it’s a portal for developers to discuss relevant items of interest run by Paul Graham’s Y Combinator. Hacker News may not be considered representative of developers broadly, but it is generally well trafficked by alpha geek...
29 January 2011 Last updated at 17:40 ET Share... →
“We are not going to take all these government cuts lying down. The only way of doing that is by protesting.”
There have also been divisions within the protest groups - and NUS president Aaron Porter was challenged by demonstrators wanting a more militant leadership.
Title: Holographic unification of dark matter and... →
Using a new version of the holographic principle, a constant term was introduced, which conduces to the description of the standard cosmological LCDM model, and unifies under the same concept the dark matter and dark energy phenomena. The obtained model improves the results of previously considered holographic models based on local quantities. The inclusion of constant term is interpreted as a...
Give Sodomy a Chance Sexual rights are protected... →
The answer is no. You have only a “right to privacy,” and in 1965, when that right first came into being, anyone who wasn’t married missed the boat. Privacy rights are more inclusive now, but they’re still only tangential to sex; they’re more akin to a cone of silence than an affirmative right to sexual activity.
The right to privacy was recognized only after a...
