Team America: Exporting terror in the name of freedom - Anonymous is your friend.
Update: The last marine involved in the Haditha killings goes on trial this week . The rest of the marines involved had their charges dropped or were acquitted. “War is when the government tells you who the bad guy is. Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.” - Unknown For far too long the world has quietly digested the twisted rhetoric coming from the White House. The US military is fighting a war through the use of Counter-terrorism, and it’s doing a good job of killing civilians and breeding more terrorism . Former US counter-terrorism czar offers more on this - “Camps were established around the world, notably in Guantanamo Bay, where prisoners were held without being charged or tried. In a 219 page US counter insurgency manual leaked by WikiLeaks, we see the playbook for exporting terrorism under the guise of “bringing freedom and democracy”. Here are some of the tactics which outline the strategy for “foreign Internal Defense”: Plainly put, this is fascist tyranny.
Hackerspace Global Grid [shackspace wiki]
This work by hackerspace global grid is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License . As proposed on CCCamp11 we need our own infrastructure and space program. HGG's aim is to develop a modular antenna grid for satellite communication. The hacker community needs a fallback infrastructure in case of natural and economic disaster to stay connected. Design and build a modular terrestrial base-station for satellite communication. Based on open-source hard- and software as well as open standards. Gain insight into the nature, protocols and security features of satellite <> earth communication. There's a HGG Hackathon at shackspace every Saturday and Sunday afternoon. Research existing systems to receive satellite communications (off-the-shelf dishes, etc) Research existing software to decode satellite communications Setup infrastructure to record and store received signals for later analysis General Timing & Position GPS most current sollution
Spare parts for humans: tissue engineers develop lab-grown lungs and limbs
[Video Link] Above, a PBS NewsHour report by science correspondent Miles O'Brien which I helped shoot, on the subject of tissue engineering. The goal in this field: Grow tissue or even whole organs to repair damaged or diseased human bodies. The report focuses in part on Isaias Hernandez, a 26-year old Marine whose leg was badly injured in an artillery attack on his convoy, in Iraq. Dr. Full transcript for the story is here.
Ever Wonder Why It’s Called Programming? : The Anonymous Press
During his initial campaign, Barack Obama talked about transparency in the government. He went as far as to say that the senate floor would be constantly monitored by C-Span. Of course, This didn’t happen. Why? Well I am sure there are a couple reasons. The first of these being, America’s complete lack of interest. As Americans, we have an addiction to the television. Sex sells. Lets look at the news. Some will tell you that TV has great stuff on it that’s incredibly informative and interesting at the same time. Religion has been called the opiate of the masses.
Mesh networking
Illustration of a mesh network. A mesh network can be designed using a flooding technique or a routing technique. When using a routing technique, the message is propagated along a path, by hopping from node to node until the destination is reached. To ensure all its paths' availability, a routing network must allow for continuous connections and reconfiguration around broken or blocked paths, using self-healing algorithms. A mesh network whose nodes are all connected to each other is a fully connected network. Mesh networks can be seen as one type of ad hoc network. The self-healing capability enables a routing based network to operate when one node breaks down or a connection goes bad. Advantages[edit] Disadvantages[edit] The more extensive the network, in terms of scope or of physical area, the greater the investment necessary to build it will be, due, among other considerations, to the amount of cabling and the number of hardware ports it will require. Wireless mesh networks[edit]
Weird Kelvin-Helmholtz Wave Clouds over Birmingham
While driving through Birmingham, Alabama, Redditor alison_bee couldn’t help but notice the bizarre, repetitive wave shapes appearing in the clouds near the horizon. While these strange cloud formations look otherworldly, they’re an example of what’s called Kelvin-Helmholtz instability — which is a pretty awesome name for a spectacular phenomenon. Here’s how Wikipedia describes what you’re seeing: [...] when velocity shear is present within a continuous fluid, or when there is sufficient velocity difference across the interface between two fluids. One example is wind blowing over a water surface, where the wind causes the relative motion between the stratified layers (i.e., water and air). The example of a strong wind blowing over water is, I think, particularly illustrative. Heres what Redditor and meteorologist zensunnioracle had to say: Meteorologist here. Someone also shot a video of the line of wavy clouds. (Reddit via TYWKIWDBI) Relavant to your interests
200 most influencial Twitter users during the riots: are you on the list? | News
The Guardian has obtained a database of more than 2.5m twitter messages related to the riots. These messages - unique records of what happened during the August riots, as they happened - have been used in a range of analyses, including how rumours spread and were eventually debunked. At the Datablog we have been able to identify the twitter accounts that had the most content retweeted. We also found the most frequently-used hashtags. Here are the most influential twitter accounts, the size of the circle indicating the number of retweets: The "riotcleanup" account was retweeted the most with 40,960 retweets. These are the most popular hashtags: As you can see, predictably "LondonRiot" was the most popular, but then a range of variations on riot clean-up are most popular - a heartening reaction to the riots. Here is all the data for the most influential twitter accounts, and the Google doc has the top 1,000 twitter accounts in terms of retweets, and the top 2,000 hashtags. Data summary More data
Wireless mesh network
Diagram showing a possible configuration for a wireless mesh network, connected upstream via a VSAT link (click to enlarge) History[edit] Network structures[edit] Architecture[edit] Wireless mesh architecture is a first step towards providing cost effective and dynamic high-bandwidth networks over a specific coverage area. Wireless mesh networks have a relatively stable topology except for the occasional failure of nodes or addition of new nodes. Management[edit] Applications[edit] Mesh networks may involve either fixed or mobile devices. Some current applications: Operation[edit] Multi-radio mesh[edit] Multi-radio mesh refers to a unique pair of dedicated radios on each end of the link. Research topics[edit] One of the more often cited papers on Wireless Mesh Networks identified the following areas as open research problems in 2005 Protocols[edit] Routing protocols[edit] There are more than 70 competing schemes for routing packets across mesh networks. Autoconfiguration protocols[edit]
