February 2011
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Tor is playing a key role in helping Egyptians... →
Fahrah Stockman at Boston Globe
Over the last three days, 120,000 people — most of them Egyptian — have downloaded Tor software, which helps activists protect their identity from surveillance by repressive regimes and get around blocked sites, according to Andrew Lewman, executive director of Tor, which provides the software for free.
“We saw this huge amount of traffic,’’ said Lewman, who said...
January 2011
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Anonymous Internet Users Team Up To Provide... →
When Internet and mobile services were cut off in Egypt on Thursday night, though landlines were operational, members immediately got to work to send information to Egyptian fax numbers. Searching for a common string of characters found in Egyptian fax machines numbers on Google, they discovered a large amount of numbers. [ … ] The activists thus began providing instructions for using...
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China censoring Egypt protests, are they afraid? →
China has blocked the search for “Egypt” on a popular microblogging service, reported Al Jazeera. Instead of getting results, users who search for that term are greeted with the message “According to relevant laws, regulations and policies, the search results are not shown.”
While the homepages of Western media publications are dominated by coverage of Egypt protests, China’s state-run media gave...
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“Let’s start by giving up a lot of BS about “principle.” There is no history of...”
– Richard Flacks, “Beyond Barack Obama” (via newleft)
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WatchOpenLeaks: Watch our draft video to see how we will work and how this is different from existing whistleblowing platforms.
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OpenLeaks is now live. →
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According to Al Jazeera, the protesters are...
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“And if you’re in the United States, you can probably only see Al Jazeera English...”
– Media Criticism - Salon.com (via progressivefriends)
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“When asked if Mubarak should step down, [US Vice President] Biden said “no.” ...”
– International Business Times
*Egypt is a semi-presidential republic under Emergency Law (Law No. 162 of 1958) and has been since 1967, except for an 18-month break in 1980s. Under the law, police powers are extended, constitutional rights suspended and censorship is legalized. (source: wikipedia)
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“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution...”
– John F. Kennedy (In a 1962 speech at the White House)
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How to Study Effectively (Not Just for Students!) →
Pretty good advice. I’m sure there are more detailed things I would add to this list though. The best thing I learned this year for writing research papers was a more focused method of writing. Rather than sitting and staring at your computer for 3 hours and playing on facebook half of that time - commit to working ONLY on your paper for just 15 minutes - absolutely no other distractions. Then you...
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WatchSomething I know many of you will enjoy: the entire film The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces.
via marchstudent:urben-disaster:bgilliard
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India to plug in solar-powered telecom towers →
The high-powered schmoozing at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, has yielded a project to install solar-powered cell phone towers in India.
Vihaan Networks Limited (VNL) and lithium ion battery maker Boston Power today announced that the two companies have successfully developed the small-scale telecom stations which VNL plans to roll out this year.
Alexander: Oh and Happy Republic...
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Tonight's State of the Union Address (Leaked...
What is at least a draft of President Obama’s remarks for tonight were leaked by a Democratic insider. Here is the full text of the speech (I’ve included a read more break so I don’t kill your Dashboard).
Tonight I want to begin by congratulating the men and women of the 112th Congress, as well as your new Speaker, John Boehner. And as we mark this occasion, we are also mindful of the empty...
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25% of files downloaded from The Pirate Bay are... →
A group of European academics, most of them from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, presented a paper at an Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) conference last month in Philadelphia that tries to quantify the motives of the biggest BitTorrent seeders. Most seeders turn out to have less-than-altruistic motives, instead using their uploads to advertise faster private trackers or...
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The UK government brings affordable computing to...
techspotlight: So instead of scrapping the whole technology-for-kids idea, the new UK coalition government is refurbing older systems with Linux distros and getting them out at £98 each along with a £9 monthly internet subscription.
Not only is this great news for pushing Linux to the people and getting a whole new generation of users involved it will ensure that technology does not miss out on...
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Public Universities Relying More on Tuition Than... →
“In the next three or four years, we’re going to have more students who are spilling out the bottom, priced out of the expensive institutions,” Ms. Wellman said. “We’re going to be rationing opportunity. We’re moving in that direction fairly rapidly.”
Given that states still provide some $80 billion for higher education, some education policy experts say it is wrong to think of public...
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Study charts global open source trends →
At the forefront of OSS development in Asia are India, China, Japan and South Korea. The report notes: “India is the most atypical country, because in spite of its low IS level, it has attained a significant level of OSS development.” This, the report surmises, is due to the higher educational level of its population and its involvement in programming for American and European companies.
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WatchJohanna Blakley: Lessons from fashion’s free culture
Copyright law’s grip on film, music and software barely touches the fashion industry … and fashion benefits in both innovation and sales, says Johanna Blakley. At TEDxUSC 2010, she talks about what all creative industries can learn from fashion’s free culture.
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