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HowToMake - fabfi - Top level How-To page - An open-source, city-scale wireless mesh networking system with access control and monitoring This page is a table of contents for all of the HowTo documentation on this site. Follow the links below for what you want to build. Note: We STRONGLY recommend using linux for working with fabfi. If you don't want to change your OS, run Ubuntu from a LiveCD. The most common use of a FabFi system is to extend or expand a high speed internet connection and charge users so as to recover cost of the leased bandwidth. The fabfi wireless system consists of three major components which are all open source: FabFolk's FabFi Cloud Services (or make your own Fabfi Server). Administrators configure Users and Groups to control access to the network. In addition to the basic configuration instructions, we also have a section on Advanced Development that explains how to build images from scratch and perform other custom tasks: Build your own FabFi Image

Surprise, Homeland Security Coordinates #OWS Crackdowns Remember when people were freaking out over the Patriot Act and Homeland Security and all this other conveniently ready-to-go post-9/11 police state stuff, because it would obviously be just a matter of time before the whole apparatus was turned against non-Muslim Americans when they started getting complain-y about the social injustice and economic injustice and income inequality and endless recession and permanent unemployment? That day is now, and has been for some time. But it’s also now confirmed that it’s now, as some Justice Department official screwed up and admitted that the Department of Homeland Security coordinated the riot-cop raids on a dozen major #Occupy Wall Street demonstration camps nationwide yesterday and today. (Oh, and tonight, too: Seattle is being busted up by the riot cops right now, so be careful out there.) Over the past ten days, more than a dozen cities have moved to evict “Occupy” protesters from city parks and other public spaces. Tagged

Fabfi - FabLab Global Who owns America? Hint: It's not China Editor's Note: The following piece comes from Global Post, which provides excellent coverage of world news – important, moving and odd. By Tom Mucha, Global Post Truth is elusive. But it's a good thing we have math. Our friends at Business Insider know this, and put those two principles to work today in this excellent and highly informative little slideshow, made even more timely by the ongoing talks in Washington, D.C. aimed at staving off a U.S. debt default. Here's the big idea: Many people — politicians and pundits alike — prattle on that China and, to a lesser extent Japan, own most of America's $14.3 trillion in government debt. But there's one little problem with that conventional wisdom: it's just not true. Here's a quick and fascinating breakdown by total amount held and percentage of total U.S. debt, according to Business Insider: So America owes foreigners about $4.5 trillion in debt.

Glasnost: Test if your ISP is shaping your traffic The goal of the Glasnost project is to make ISPs' traffic shaping policies transparent to their customers. To this end, we designed Glasnost tests that enable you to check whether traffic from your applications is being rate-limited (i.e., throttled) or blocked. Glasnost tests work by measuring and comparing the performance of different application flows between your host and our measurement servers. As of Feburary 2017 Glasnost is no longer available. Who are we? We are researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems.

Downtown Billboard Promoter Hires Well-Connected Lobbyists" by mpotter News Ticker By Matt Potter, November 16, 2011 A former aide to the owner of the Denver Nuggets has been quietly pitching the idea of turning part of downtown San Diego into a giant "entertainment district," complete with massive, Times Square-style animated advertising signs, video screens, and billboards. According to a presentation on his company's website, David Ehrlich, principal of FinWater Advisors in Denver, wants to "create a public-private partnership to develop the legal/political environment to make the district a reality." Touting the plan as "a revitalized neighborhood powered by outdoor media...[not] a sign district," Ehrlich's company estimates annual gross revenue of $5 million by the third year of the project, with a share of the money to go to city hall and downtown property owners. City records show FinWater has hired the local lobbying outfit of Marston & Marston, run by the husband and wife team of Jeff and Myrna Marston, to influence the city on the project's behalf.

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Laws governing the initiative process in California Citizens of California may initiate legislation as either a state statute or a constitutional amendment. In California, citizens also have the power to repeal legislation via veto referendum. The California State Legislature may also place measures on the ballot as legislatively-referred constitutional amendments or legislatively-referred state statutes. Crafting an initiative Of the 24 states that allow citizens to initiate legislation through the petition process, several states have adopted restrictions and regulations that limit the scope and content of proposed initiatives. Single-subject rule See also: Single-subject rule In California, each proposed measure must address only one subject. See law: California Constitution, Article II, Section 8 (d) Subject restrictions In California, an initiated measure may not apply differently to different political subdivisions (cities, counties, etc...) based on the approval/disapproval of the measure in those subdivisions. Competing initiatives

Cosmos (C# Open Source Managed Operating System) PROJECTS :: San Diego's Regional Planning Agency Comprehensive Economic and Public Finance Projects The current tax system between the State of California and its local governments is an impediment to sustainable communities. The unpredictability of local government budgets makes it difficult to plan for and provide adequate infrastructure and public services. The current fiscal system restricts the freedom of local governments to manage their own fiscal affairs and thereby destabilizes local governments. Due to current tax distribution policies between state and local governments, local government officials have lost much of their control over tax revenues. SANDAG has identified solutions for transforming the current state-local fiscal relationship. SANDAG proposes a new system that provides: Our California representatives, as well as our business and civic leaders, need to develop a comprehensive solution to the problems inherent in the current state-local financial relationship. Project Manager