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Corbis: photography, rights, assignment, motion.

emmineb — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 12:19:35 GMT

<> Corbis is a world leader in digital media. By providing the industry's richest array of digital image licensing, rights services, artist representation and media management, Corbis enables creative innovation for advertising, corporate marketing and editorial clients. Corbis is headquartered in Seattle, with 20 offices throughout North America, Europe and Asia.

David MacKay FRS Sustainable Energy - without the hot air: Contents

emmineb — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 14:31:01 GMT

"For anyone with influence on energy policy, whether in government, business or a campaign group, this book should be compulsory reading." Tony Juniper Former Executive Director, Friends of the Earth "At last a book that comprehensively reveals the true facts about sustainable energy in a form that is both highly readable and entertaining." Robert Sansom EDF Energy "The Freakonomics of conservation, climate and energy." Cory Doctorow, boingboing.net "...a tour de force..." The Economist "... a cold blast of reality ... a must-read analysis..." Science magazine "...this year's must-read book..." The Guardian

Defense Budget Tutorial # - What is the Actual Size of the 2006 Defense Budget? By Winslow Wheeler

emmineb — Mon, 07 May 2007 09:23:20 GMT

Having observed, and in past years participated in, the obscuration of just how much the United States actually spends for defense, this author believes it would assist the debate over the defense budget in this country by identifying its actual size. The “defense spending” bill enacted in December had the title, “Making appropriations to the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2006 and for other purposes.” It was a little heavy on those “other purposes” [2] and it did not comprise all the money the Defense Department received and will receive for 2006

Internet Filtering in China in 2004-2005: A Country Study

emmineb — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 07:30:50 GMT

Paper on opennetinitiative.net. Links to other studies on Internet Filtering in Bahrain,Burma, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates * ONI Country Studies See also the Economist article "The party, the people and the power of cyber-talk"

Light Blue Touchpaper » Ignoring the “Great Firewall of China”

emmineb — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 13:54:30 GMT

It turns out [caveat: in the specific cases we’ve closely examined, YMMV] that the keyword detection is not actually being done in large routers on the borders of the Chinese networks, but in nearby subsidiary machines. When these machines detect the keyword, they do not actually prevent the packet containing the keyword from passing through the main router (this would be horribly complicated to achieve and still allow the router to run at the necessary speed). Instead, these subsiduary machines generate a series of TCP reset packets, which are sent to each end of the connection. When the resets arrive, the end-points assume they are genuine requests from the other end to close the connection — and obey. Hence the censorship occurs.

MeFi: War in Spaaaaaaaacccccce!

emmineb — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 21:35:12 GMT

A practical discussion of weapons that would work in space and orbital combat.

national flags by colors - data visualization & visual design - information aesthetics

emmineb — Tue, 29 May 2007 17:09:13 GMT

a collection of national flags as pie charts. each sector of these piecharts is proportional to the area of the color on the respective flag. [link: shaheeilyas.com/flags]

Resilient Communities a SANER future - Sustainable, Asymmetric, Networked, Effective, Resilient

emmineb — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:14:39 GMT

We're committed to growing resilient communities. As the global economic and political system begins to devour itself, we need communities that can withstand those system shocks, and provide us the means to live secure, comfortable, and sustainable lives. Our goal is to provide a place where people who are engaged in this work can share their experiences, tools, and presence

Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA), Network Centric Warfare (NCW) & Effect Based Operations (EBO)

emmineb — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 04:10:40 GMT

<> IWS - The Information Warfare Site is an online resource that aims to stimulate debate about a range of subjects from information security to information operations and e-commerce. It is the aim of the site to develop a special emphasis on offensive and defensive information operations. IWS first went online in December 1999. Since its launch it has undergone a complete redesign and many key texts have been added. In adherence to its founding principles IWS has developed several mailing lists to enable a more interactive debate.

Schneier on Security: Anonymity and the Internet February 3, 2010

emmineb — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 09:14:41 GMT

Universal identification is portrayed by some as the holy grail of Internet security. Anonymity is bad, the argument goes; and if we abolish it, we can ensure only the proper people have access to their own information. We'll know who is sending us spam and who is trying to hack into corporate networks. And when there are massive denial-of-service attacks, such as those against Estonia or Georgia or South Korea, we'll know who was responsible and take action accordingly. The problem is that it won't work. Any design of the Internet must allow for anonymity. Universal identification is impossible. Even attribution -- knowing who is responsible for particular Internet packets -- is impossible. Attempting to build such a system is futile, and will only give cr