Trillions for War, Prisons, & Wall St. Bailout = No Progress
Millennium Goals, Global Poverty and the Peace Dividend - Turning Swords into Ploughshares
"The military, prison, and financial policies of the U.S. government are interrelated, creating a social system that is repressive and offensive to human dignity for people who experience it, especially the marginalized, the poor, the 'Third World'. The poor in America are filling the prisons and the 'Third World' are the fodder on the other end of the bombs in America's wars. In categorizing the abuse of power that is undertaken by institutions operating 'above the law' or through State privilege, the deprival of life by government policies through war and the deprival of liberty to individuals through imprisonment are particularly fundamental problems that relate to the basic human rights every person should enjoy equally. Capitalism is being used as a justification for these actions historically by American policies, leadership, and their rhetoric... When you discuss what the alternatives to the 'corruption' that favors the 1% or represents only a fraction of the 1% who are permitted an active or consequential role in politics, it seems that #ows is suggesting an alternative of direct, active, particpative democracy that is also interested in a reform of policy according to moral standards." + Understanding #ows - Noam Chomsky Interview
Technology News:
smartphones - the Swiss Army knives of the digital age
The Smartphone Revolution – Corporate Landscape
- Submitted by: Stephanie Grant
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The da Vinci Surgical System - Intuitive Surgical
Regulatory Requirements for Medical Licensing
- Submitted by: Meredith Jones-W...
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fuel cells produce clean electricity from Hydrogen
Replacing petrocarbons as the world’s primary energy source
- Submitted by: Thomas Evers
'Despite Echelon's limitations, the parliament said that by gaining access to e-mail, fax or telephone messages from Europe, the U.S. is breaching the European Convention on Human Rights. U.S. National Security Agency officials in the U.K. and Germany are believed to be intercepting such messages. The parliament urged the U.S. to comply with the convention."'
+ Euro-Parliament - Echelon Report
'It has been suggested that ECHELON may intercept as many as 3 billion communications everyday, including phone calls, e-mail messages, Internet downloads, satellite transmissions, and so on. (2) The ECHELON system gathers all of these transmissions indiscriminately, then distills the information that is most heavily desired through artificial intelligence programs. Some sources have claimed that ECHELON sifts through an estimated 90 percent of all traffic that flows through the Internet... The United States government has gone to extreme lengths to keep ECHELON a secret. To this day, the U.S. government refuses to admit that ECHELON even exists. We know it exists because both the governments of Australia (through its Defence Signals Directorate) and New Zealand have admitted to this fact. (10) However, even with this revelation, US officials have refused to comment. This "wall of silence" is beginning to erode.'
+ NSA Watch - Echelon Program
"Inspection functions ceaselessly. The gaze is alert everywhere: 'A considerable body of militia, commanded by good officers and men of substance', guards at the gates, at the town hall and in every quarter to ensure the prompt obedience of the people and the most absolute authority of the magistrates, 'as also to observe all disorder, theft and extortion'. At each of the town gates there will be an observation post; at the end of each street sentinels. Every day, the intendant visits the quarter in his charge, inquires whether the syndics have carried out their tasks, whether the inhabitants have anything to complain of; they 'observe their actions'... This surveillance is based on a system of permanent registration."
+ Michel Foucault - The Panopticon
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Jack Ma - Photo: http://www.chinadecoded.com
eCommerce Strategy: eBay vs. Jack Ma, Ali Baba, & TaoBao
- Submitted by: Jon Akash
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environmental responsibility & socioeconomic benefit
Case Study: Sustainability Policies in Management
- Submitted by: Raymond Schach
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transparency in commodities & supply relationships
Creating an International Procurement Organization
- Submitted by: David Marshall
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Mobile Ecommerce Development - Business Resource Investment in Smartphone Platforms - Submitted by: Walt Sonnabend Changes in consumer patterns related to the use of “smartphones” have led to new challenges for businesses in developing an integrated online sales network which includes support for multiple mobile operating systems in addition to traditional IT requirements related to enterprise software development, database management, web presence, and security. This study will look at the rapidly changing smartphone market and the online sales generated through mobile applications using smartphones in order to determine the optimal project management and resource... |
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The Power of Technology - Changing the world on a daily basis - Submitted by: Stephanie Grant Technology is changing the world on a daily basis, creating new opportunities and also surpassing old ways of doing business, teaching, learning, or communicating in society. As Marc Prensky writes, “For the digital age, we need new curricula, new organization, new architecture, new teaching, new student assessments, new parental connections, new administration procedures, and many other elements.” (Prensky, 2005) Information technology is the base of the digital age, and classrooms should begin to overcome the costs of technology in the classroom... |
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Welcome to RepRap.org - Free 3D Printers
http://reprap.org/wiki/RepRap -
"RepRap is a free desktop 3D printer capable of printing plastic objects. Since many parts of RepRap are made from plastic and RepRap can print those parts, RepRap is a self-replicating machine - one that anyone can build given time and materials. It also means that - if you've got a RepRap - you can print lots of useful stuff, and you can print another RepRap for a friend... RepRap is about making self-replicating machines, and making them freely available for the benefit of everyone."
IBM produces first working chips modeled on the human brain
http://venturebeat.com/2011/08/17/ibm-cognitive-computing-chips/ -
"Big Blue is announcing today that it, along with four universities and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), have created the basic design of an experimental computer chip that emulates the way the brain processes information. IBM’s so-called cognitive computing chips could one day simulate and emulate the brain’s ability to sense, perceive, interact and recognize — all tasks that humans can currently do much better than computers can."
How Facebook is open-sourcing its data centers and servers
http://venturebeat.com/2011/08/25/facebook-open-source-hardware/ -
"Facebook wants to work with software vendors on free licenses for Open Compute Project contributors. The company is also considering working with other corporations and organizations (such as governments and large universities, which have similar computing needs) to create new, open-source software programs for hardware design."
Deploy and Manage Linux Virtual Servers in the Linode Cloud
http://www.linode.com/ -
"We're a VPS hosting company built upon one simple premise: provide the best possible tools and services to those that know what they need — better hosting. A Linode VPS means freedom. You get everything from the kernel and root access on up. All managed by our simple yet very powerful control panel."
How Big Data and the iPad Have Fundamentally Changed Baseball
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/how_big_data_and_the_ipad_have_fundamentally_changed_baseball.php -
"This new era of advanced baseball statistics is called Sabermetrics. The term is derived from the name of the research organization Society for American Baseball Research, a.k.a SABR. SABR is also a mathematical 'stochastic volatility model' used in financial derivative markets. Along with SABR there are a variety of baseball professionals and stat enthusiasts who spend their lives analyzing baseball statistics."
76 Powerful Thoughts from Paul Graham
http://www.rosshudgens.com/thoughts-from-paul-graham/ -
"Paul Graham is most famous for heading up Y Combinator, a seed-stage startup funding firm, and also for Hacker News, a social news website revolving around computer hacking... Graham’s essays online are highly regarded for their insight and relevance – and his book, 'Hackers and Painters', is no different...'Hackers' are the programmers and developers that code the internet ”
The GNU Privacy Guard - GnuPG
http://www.gnupg.org/index.en.html -
"GnuPG is the GNU project's complete and free implementation of the OpenPGP standard as defined by RFC4880 . GnuPG allows to encrypt and sign your data and communication, features a versatile key management system as well as access modules for all kinds of public key directories. GnuPG, also known as GPG, is a command line tool with features for easy integration with other applications."
Gpg4win - GNU Privacy Guard for Windows
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"Gpg4win enables users to securely transport emails and files with the help of encryption and digital signatures. Encryption protects the contents against an unwanted party reading it. Digital signatures make sure that it was not modified and comes from a specific sender. Gpg4win supports both relevant cryptography standards, OpenPGP and S/MIME (X.509)."
Kyoto Energy - Solar Cooker Wins Climate Change Challenge
http://www.kyoto-energy.com -
"One solution that has recently gained some international recognition is the 'Kyoto Box,' a solar-powered cooker, a $5 solar stove for rural poor, paid for by polluters. One little solar cooker aims to take a big bite out of climate change - the box aims to save some of the millions of children who die each year from food cooked with unclean drinking water."
Damon Horowitz - Technologists need a “moral operating system”
http://venturebeat.com/2011/05/14/damon-horowitz-moral-operating-system -
“We have stronger opinions about our handheld devices than about the moral framework we should use to guide our decisions... technology-makers aren’t supposed to think about the morality of their products — they just build stuff and let other people worry about the ethics... technology makers should be thinking as much about their 'moral operating system' as their mobile operating system."