Personal Satellite for $8000.00 Planet Earth has entered the age of the Personal Satellite with the introduction of Interorbital’s TubeSat Personal Satellite (PS) Kit. The new IOS TubeSat PS Kit is the low-cost alternative to the CubeSat. It has three-quarters of the mass (0.75-kg) and volume of a CubeSat, but still offers plenty of room [...]
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Interorbital Systems – TubeSat Personal Satellite Kit | International Space Fellowship
Posted in My Thoughts on February 12, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Physics Buzz: Hawking & Mlodinow: No ‘theory of everything’
Posted in My Thoughts on September 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Thursday, September 30, 2010 Hawking & Mlodinow: No ‘theory of everything’ In a Scientific American essay based on their new book A Grand Design, Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow are now claiming physicists may never find a theory of everything. Instead, they propose a "family of interconnected theories" might emerge, with each describing a [...]
Was Stuxnet Built to Attack Iran’s Nuclear Program? – PCWorld Business Center
Posted in My Thoughts on September 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
By Robert McMillan, IDG News A highly sophisticated computer worm that has spread through Iran, Indonesia and India was built to destroy operations at one target: possibly Iran’s Bushehr nuclear reactor. That’s the emerging consensus of security experts who have examined the Stuxnet worm. In recent weeks, they’ve broken the cryptographic code behind the [...]
Reality check: Iran is not a nuclear threat – CSMonitor.com
Posted in My Thoughts on September 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Reality check: Iran is not a nuclear threat Forget the neoconservative hype. The facts show Iran is not and has not been a nuclear threat to either the United States or Israel. By Scott Horton / September 17, 2010 Los Angeles Politicians, lobbyists, and propagandists have spent nearly two decades pushing the lie that [...]
Burning Man’s open source cell phone system could help save the world
Posted in My Thoughts on September 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Burning Man’s open source cell phone system could help save the world Solar-powered OpenBTS systems costs pennies a day and operates in the farthest outreaches of Earth. By Julie Bort, Network World August 30, 2010 02:47 PM ET Today I bring you a story that has it all: a solar-powered, low-cost, open source cellular [...]
e-OTI: The Internet Society and Developing Countries
Posted in My Thoughts on March 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Internet Society and Developing Countries By George Sadowsky sadowsky@nyu.edu All countries of the world are faced with substantial numbers of major challenges. Among them are the provision for their inhabitants of good health, adequate education, opportunities for advancement, adequate housing, employment, sufficient income to meet material needs, a sense of personal security within [...]
Iran | OpenNet Initiative
Posted in My Thoughts on March 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Published on 16/Jun/2009 The Islamic Republic of Iran continues to expand and consolidate its technical filtering system, which is among the most extensive in the world. A centralized system for Internet filtering has been implemented that augments the filtering conducted at the Internet service provider (ISP) level. Iran now employs domestically produced technology for [...]
Iran stocks up on censorship tools | Analysis & Opinion | Reuters
Posted in My Thoughts on February 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Iran stocks up on censorship tools Jul 7, 2009 13:43 EDT censorship | Global Post | iran | Twitter – Tom Abate covers the technology sector for GlobalPost, where this article first appeared. The views are his own. — When Iranian protesters used internet services like Twitter to gain global attention they also reminded [...]
How the Internet Freedom Initiative Could Help Iran – PCWorld
Posted in My Thoughts on February 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
How the Internet Freedom Initiative Could Help Iran Analysis: The so-called “Internet Freedom Initiative” would give $50 million for censor-busting technologies like proxy servers. Preston Gralla, Computerworld Jun 22, 2009 5:20 As the unfolding events in Iran show, the most important tool for those who want to fight for their freedom is access to [...]
How to save Iran: Support the Internet freedom initiative – Computerworld Blogs
Posted in My Thoughts on February 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Preston Gralla Seeing Through Windows More posts | Read bio June 18, 2009 – 8:49 A.M. How to save Iran: Support the Internet freedom initiative As the unfolding events in Iran show, the most important tool for those who want to fight for their freedom is access to the Internet. Facebook, Twitter, email and [...]
