http://www.netvouz.com/emmineb/tag/w4?feed=rss&pg=2 emmineb's bookmarks tagged "w4" on Netvouz http://permanent.com/ P rojects to E mploy R esources of the M oon and A steroids N ear E arth in the N ear T erm G o a l s We mean business!Don't expensively launch from Earth, use construction materials already in space.Build valuable, profitable products and habitats in orbit (not send back to Earth).Non-governmental, commercial, faster, cheaper large scale space development. O r g a n i z a t i o n PERMANENT is an introductory guide for all, a reference source for experts and a news site on space resources. We link to known, quality websites, stockpile technical resources of third parties not on the web, and help them publish on the web. emmineb Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:49:43 GMT http://platformwars.blogspot.com/2006/07/tcpip-vs-dollar.html Donna Bogatin : � Social Web or Business Web: where is the money? Naturally, people are fascinated by this question of "where's the money?" But it's the wrong question. The more interesting one is "why the money"? And it's still gonna take us a long time to get our heads around that. But that's what we're all gonna be asking at some point. The more effective the internet and the web are at helping us communicate and co-ordinate, the less money will be involved. Because ultimately the economy is a communication network and money is its protocol The network is not the means to the end of money. emmineb Fri, 16 Feb 2007 17:49:15 GMT http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/24748/?a=f The study of social networks has thrown up more than a few surprises over the years. It's easy to imagine that because the links that form between various individuals in a society are not governed by any overarching rules, they must have a random structure. So the discovery in the 1980s that social networks are very different came as something of a surprise. In a social network, most nodes are not linked to each other but can easily be reached by a small number of steps. This is the so-called small worlds network. emmineb Sat, 06 Feb 2010 10:42:57 GMT http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=142383 In the ruined city of Fallujah, its pale tan buildings pulverized by Marine artillery in the two great assaults of this long war (the aborted attack of March 2004 and then the bloody, triumphant al-Fajr (The Dawn) campaign of the following November), behind the lines of giant sandbags and concrete T-walls and barbed wire that surrounded the tiny beleaguered American outpost there, I sat in my body armor and Kevlar helmet and thought of George F. Kennan. Not the grand old man of American diplomacy, the ninety-eight-year-old Father of Containment who, listening to the war drums beat from a Washington nursing home in the fall of 2002, had uttered the prophetic words above. I was thinking of an earlier Kennan, the brilliant and ambitious young diplomat who duri emmineb Fri, 15 Dec 2006 20:31:29 GMT http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=87452 emmineb Sun, 11 Jun 2006 09:05:09 GMT http://www.d-n-i.net/fcs/pdf/kilcullen_28_articles.pdf emmineb Fri, 02 Jun 2006 07:41:42 GMT http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/awc-forc.htm#opart emmineb Fri, 16 Feb 2007 08:51:12 GMT http://arxiv.org/ftp/cs/papers/0612/0612071.pdf 0612071.pdf (application/pdf Object) emmineb Wed, 14 Feb 2007 09:52:51 GMT http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/005123.html#more Chris Anderson - Mr. Long Tail, editor of Wired Magazine - makes a great decision here at Pop!tech: assuming that everyone in the audience has either read The Long Tail or knows the argument, he gives a different talk: “What Happens When Things Get Free?” (It covers much of the same ground as the book, but draws a different narrative through many of the same examples.) He starts with a photo of Dr. Carver Mead. Mead started thinking about what happens as semiconductors get cheap to the point where they’re free. The answer is, “you should waste them.” This insight led to VLSI - Very Large Scale Integration - chips that included thousands of transitors, not just single ones. emmineb Wed, 25 Oct 2006 13:07:28 GMT http://www.amazon.com/Brave-New-War-Terrorism-Globalization/dp/0471780790/sr=11-1/qid=1162992274/ref=sr_11_1/102-4085570-1457716 As Brave New War explains, system disruption lies at the heart of the agenda. Instead of symbolic, or deadly attacks, we should be on the lookout for economically devastating attacks. Our enemy will be looking for gaps in the system where a small, cheap action--say, on an oil pipeline--will generate a tremendous return. It may not even make the evening news, except as a report on spiraling gas prices. Because of the open source nature of the enemy, they don't all need to be smart. In fact, none of them need to be smart. They'll just keep trying random acts until one really works, and then they'll all copy it. That doesn't take genius, just flexibility. Is this all just theoretical? No, it's exactly what we're seeing in Iraq, as their IEDs improve, their tar emmineb Wed, 08 Nov 2006 13:27:01 GMT