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David Miranda, schedule 7 and the danger that all reporters now face | Alan Rusbridger ... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...nda-schedule7-danger-reporters
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  • LeopoldS on 20 Aug 13
     
    During one of these meetings I asked directly whether the government would move to close down the Guardian's reporting through a legal route - by going to court to force the surrender of the material on which we were working. The official confirmed that, in the absence of handover or destruction, this was indeed the government's intention. Prior restraint, near impossible in the US, was now explicitly and imminently on the table in the UK. But my experience over WikiLeaks - the thumb drive and the first amendment - had already prepared me for this moment. I explained to the man from Whitehall about the nature of international collaborations and the way in which, these days, media organisations could take advantage of the most permissive legal environments. Bluntly, we did not have to do our reporting from London. Already most of the NSA stories were being reported and edited out of New York. And had it occurred to him that Greenwald lived in Brazil?

    The man was unmoved. And so one of the more bizarre moments in the Guardian's long history occurred - with two GCHQ security experts overseeing the destruction of hard drives in the Guardian's basement just to make sure there was nothing in the mangled bits of metal which could possibly be of any interest to passing Chinese agents. "We can call off the black helicopters," joked one as we swept up the remains of a MacBook Pro.

    Whitehall was satisfied, but it felt like a peculiarly pointless piece of symbolism that understood nothing about the digital age. We will continue to do patient, painstaking reporting on the Snowden documents, we just won't do it in London. The seizure of Miranda's laptop, phones, hard drives and camera will similarly have no effect on Greenwald's work.

    The state that is building such a formidable apparatus of surveillance will do its best to prevent journalists from reporting on it. Most journalists can see that. But I wonder how many have truly understood
  • H H on 20 Aug 13
     
    Sarah Harrison is a lawyer that has been staying with Snowden in Hong Kong and Moscow. She is a UK citizen and her family is there. After the miranda case where the boyfriend of the reporter was detained at the airport, can Sarah return safely home? Will her family be pressured by the secret service? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-23759834
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One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence (AI100) | - 1 views

ai100.stanford.edu
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  • zoervleis on 06 Sep 16
     
    "The One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence, launched in the fall of 2014, is a long-term investigation of the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its influences on people, their communities, and society." (...) "The report is designed to address four intended audiences. For the general public, it aims to provide an accessible, scientifically and technologically accurate portrayal of the current state of AI and its potential. For industry, the report describes relevant technologies and legal and ethical challenges, and may help guide resource allocation. The report is also directed to local, national, and international governments to help them better plan for AI in governance. Finally, the report can help AI researchers, as well as their institutions and funders, to set priorities and consider the ethical and legal issues raised by AI research and its applications."
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TeamParis-SynthEthics - 5 views

2009.igem.org/...TeamParis-SynthEthics.pdf bio human_sciences ethics
shared by pacome delva on 27 Nov 09 - No Cached
  • pacome delva on 27 Nov 09
     
    This is an interesting report from a student in sociology, who worked with a group of scientists on a synthetic biology project for the competition IGEM (http://2009.igem.org/Main_Page). This is what happen when you mix hard and soft sciences. For this project they won the special prize for "Best Human Practices Advance". You can read the part on self or exploded governance (p.34). When reading parts of this reports, I thought that it could be good to have a stagiaire or a YGT in human science to see if we can raise interesting question about ethics for the space sector. There are many questions I'm sure, about the governance, the legitimacy of spending millions to go in space, etc...
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Fast Future report: the shape of jobs to come - 5 views

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  • Dario Izzo on 16 Jan 10
     
    Long report on new careers and jobs that will be available in 20 years. Space guides is one of them .... (overoptimistic?)
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Shell energy scenarios to 2050 - 6 views

www.shell.com/...shell_energy_scenarios_2050 energy future forecast politics economy climate_change
shared by Luís F. Simões on 09 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Luís F. Simões on 09 Mar 11
     
    just in case you were feeling happy and optimistic
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  • Francesco Biscani on 09 Mar 11
     
    An energy scenario published by an oil company? Allow me to be sceptical...
  • Joris _ on 10 Mar 11
     
    Indeed, Shell is an energy company, not just oil, for some time now ... The two scenarii are, in their approach, dependant of economic and political situation, which is right now impossible to forecast. Reference to Kyoto is surprising, almost out-dated! But overall, I find it rather optimistic at some stages, and probably the timeline (p37-39) is unlikely with recent events.
  • Luís F. Simões on 10 Mar 11
     
    the report was published in 2008, which explains the reference to Kyoto, as the follow-up to it was much more uncertain at that point. The Blueprint scenario is indeed optimistic, but also quite unlikely I'd say. I don't see humanity suddenly becoming so wise and coordinated. Sadly, I see something closer to the Scramble scenario as much more likely to occur.
  • LeopoldS on 12 Mar 11
     
    not an oil company??? please have a look at the percentage of their revenues coming from oil and gas and then compare this with all their other energy activities together and you will see very quickly that it is only window dressing ... they are an oil and gas company ... and nothing more
  • Joris _ on 14 Mar 11
     
    not JUST oil. From a description: "Shell is a global group of energy and petrochemical companies." Of course revenues coming from oil are the biggest, the investment turnover on other energy sources is small for now. Knowing that most of their revenues is from an expendable source, to guarantee their future, they invest elsewhere. They have invested >1b$ in renewable energy, including biofuels. They had the largest wind power business among so-called "oil" companies. Oil only defines what they do "best". As a comparison, some time ago, Apple were selling only computers and now they sell phones. But I would not say Apple is just a phone company.
  • LeopoldS on 14 Mar 11
     
    window dressing only ... e.g. Net cash from operating activities (pre-tax) in 2008: 70 Billion$ net income in 2008: 26 Billion revenues in 2008: 88 Billion Their investments and revenues in renewables don't even show up in their annual financial reports since probably they are under the heading of "marketing" which is already 1.7 Billion $ ... this is what they report on their investments: Capital investment, portfolio actions and business development Capital investment in 2009 was $24 billion. This represents a 26% decrease from 2008, which included over $8 billion in acquisitions, primarily relating to Duvernay Oil Corp. Capital investment included exploration expenditure of $4.5 billion (2008: $11.0 billion). In Abu Dhabi, Shell signed an agreement with Abu Dhabi National Oil Company to extend the GASCO joint venture for a further 20 years. In Australia, Shell and its partners took the final investment decision (FID) for the Gorgon LNG project (Shell share 25%). Gorgon will supply global gas markets to at least 2050, with a capacity of 15 million tonnes (100% basis) of LNG per year and a major carbon capture and storage scheme. Shell has announced a front-end engineering and design study for a floating LNG (FLNG) project, with the potential to deploy these facilities at the Prelude offshore gas discovery in Australia (Shell share 100%). In Australia, Shell confirmed that it has accepted Woodside Petroleum Ltd.'s entitlement offer of new shares at a total cost of $0.8 billion, maintaining its 34.27% share in the company; $0.4 billion was paid in 2009 with the remainder paid in 2010. In Bolivia and Brazil, Shell sold its share in a gas pipeline and in a thermoelectric power plant and its related assets for a total of around $100 million. In Canada, the Government of Alberta and the national government jointly announced their intent to contribute $0.8 billion of funding towards the Quest carbon capture and sequestration project. Quest, which is at the f
  • Joris _ on 14 Mar 11
     
    thanks for the info :) They still have their 50% share in the wind farm in Noordzee (you can see it from ESTEC on a clear day). Look for Shell International Renewables, other subsidiaries and joint-ventures. I guess, the report is about the oil branch. http://sustainabilityreport.shell.com/2009/servicepages/downloads/files/all_shell_sr09.pdf http://www.noordzeewind.nl/
  • LeopoldS on 16 Mar 11
     
    no - its about Shell globally - all Shell .. these participations are just peanuts please read the intro of the CEO in the pdf you linked to: he does not even mention renewables! their entire sustainability strategy is about oil and gas - just making it (look) nicer and environmentally friendlier
  • Joris _ on 16 Mar 11
     
    Fair enough, for me even peanuts are worthy and I am not able to judge. Not all big-profit companies, like Shell, are evil :( Look in the pdf what is in the upstream and downstream you mentionned above. Non-shell sources for examples and more objectivity: http://www.nuon.com/company/Innovative-projects/noordzeewind.jsp http://www.e-energymarket.com/news/single-news/article/ferrari-tops-bahrain-gp-using-shell-biofuel.html thanks.
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WTEC: Reports - 0 views

www.wtec.org/reports.htm technology forecast
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  • ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09
     
    Reports written by the World Technology Evaluation Center
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Gravitational Observatory Advisory Team final report - 0 views

www.cosmos.esa.int/GOAT PHY GravitationalWaves
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  • jaihobah on 18 Apr 16
     
    The Goat has spoken... The report they've released has a nice overview of the context, feasibility and prospects for eLISA being launched as soon as 2029.
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NASA DARPA beamed energy propulsion report - 1 views

ntrs.nasa.gov/...20120002761_2012003334.pdf
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  • LeopoldS on 19 Mar 12
     
    Comprehensive report on beamed energy propulsion
  • dejanpetkow on 20 Mar 12
     
    whatever you want to know about bep you will find it somewhere at these 650 pages.
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Cut EU red tape: Report from the Business Taskforce - 2 views

www.gov.uk/...rt-from-the-business-taskforce innovation regulation
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  • Nicholas Lan on 25 Oct 13
     
    some interesting recommendations part of a current discussion between the commission and some member states in a general, and apparently popular with all parties, drive to reduce bureaucracy to, among other things, stimulate innovation. Firms face a challenge. They produce superb products, offer world-class services and benefit from being able to sell to a European market of 500 million customers. But they are often encumbered by problematic, poorly-understood and burdensome European rules. The impact is clear: fewer inventions are patented, fewer sales are made, fewer goods are produced and fewer jobs are created.
  • LeopoldS on 27 Oct 13
     
    what hypocrites ... "As businesspeople, we are convinced that these and many other problems must be addressed if British and European firms are to compete in the global marketplace. We need regulation to operate in a pan-European market. We are not against regulation per se. But we need regulation that is pro-growth and pro-innovation." sure ....
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IISC - International Institute of Space Commerce - 5 views

www.iisc.im/publications.asp reports science engineering space
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  • LeopoldS on 07 Jan 10
     
    interesting collection / source of reports linked to space ...
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Geo-Engineering - Giving us time to act? - 0 views

www.imeche.org/...Geoeng geoengineering GEO report
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  • Ma Ru on 27 Aug 09
     
    May be of interest for Friederike and Nina... Link to the full report at the bottom of the page.
  • LeopoldS on 28 Aug 09
     
    thanks Marek! hope that you are doing fine!!!
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PlagiarismDetect.com | Free Online Plagiarism Detection System - 0 views

www.plagiarismdetect.com/index.php writing paper ariadna report text editing
shared by ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09 - Cached
  • ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09
     
    If you get suspicious text you can have an automated check. However, I suggest to remove any references chapter since they boost the amount of hits. My last Ariadna report has a plagiarism rate of 8.7%. Anyone higher?
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Google Says the FBI Is Secretly Spying on Some of Its Customers | Threat Level | Wired.com - 3 views

www.wired.com/...google-nsl-range spying google INF
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  • LeopoldS on 06 Mar 13
     
    not a surprise though still bad to read ....
  • Ma Ru on 07 Mar 13
     
    On a side note, it's hilarious to read an article on something repeatedly referred to as being secret...
  • LeopoldS on 10 Mar 13
     
    quite self-explanatory described though: "The terrorists apparently would win if Google told you the exact number of times the Federal Bureau of Investigation invoked a secret process to extract data about the media giant's customers. That's why it is unlawful for any record-keeper to disclose it has received a so-called National Security Letter. But under a deal brokered with the President Barack Obama administration, Google on Tuesday published a "range" of times it received National Security Letters demanding it divulge account information to the authorities without warrants. It was the first time a company has ever released data chronicling the volume of National Security Letter requests. National Security Letters allow the government to get detailed information on Americans' finances and communications without oversight from a judge. The FBI has issued hundreds of thousands of NSLs and has even been reprimanded for abusing them. The NSLs are written demands from the FBI that compel internet service providers, credit companies, financial institutions and businesses like Google to hand over confidential records about their customers, such as subscriber information, phone numbers and e-mail addresses, websites visited and more as long as the FBI says the information is "relevant" to an investigation." and ""You'll notice that we're reporting numerical ranges rather than exact numbers. This is to address concerns raised by the FBI, Justice Department and other agencies that releasing exact numbers might reveal information about investigations. We plan to update these figures annually," Richard Salgado, a Google legal director, wrote in a blog post. Salgado was not available for comment. What makes the government's position questionable is that it is required by Congress to disclose the number of times the bureau issues National Security Letters. In 2011, the year with the latest available figures, the FBI issued 16,511 National Sec
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The Secret of Ant Transportation Networks - Technology Review - 2 views

www.technologyreview.com/...27545 bio ant foraging transport networks
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  • Just how ants create the highly efficient network of trails around their nests has never been fully understood. Now researchers think they've cracked it
  • They say the structure of ant trails can be entirely explained if the ants's response to a pheromone droplet concentration is linear. "One ant will turn to the left in proportion to the difference between the pheromone it has on its left side and the pheromone on its right," say Perna and co. They also point out that this is exactly what Weber's law predicts.
  • Ref: arxiv.org/abs/1201.5827 :Individual Rules For Trail Pattern Formation In Argentine Ants (Linepithema Humile)
  • Luís F. Simões on 03 Feb 12
     
    from the abstract: "Using a novel imaging and analysis technique on experimental data we estimated pheromone concentrations at all spatial positions in the experimental arena and at different times. Then we derived the response function of individual ants to pheromone concentrations by looking at correlations between concentrations and changes in speed or direction of the ants." [...] "agent based simulations based on the Weber's Law response function determined experimentally produced results compatible with those reported in the literature and reproduced the formation of trails."
  • LeopoldS on 05 Feb 12
     
    Nice article!
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http://thegwpf.org/images/stories/gwpf-reports/hughes-evidence.pdf - 2 views

thegwpf.org/...hughes-evidence.pdf climate
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  • Dario Izzo on 06 Aug 12
     
    The Global Warming Policy Foundations has warned policy makers that wind energy is an extraordinarily expensive and inefficient way of reducing CO2 emissions.
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Quantum Biology and the Puzzle of Coherence - Technology Review - 4 views

www.technologyreview.com/...27628 biology quantum technology bio
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  • santecarloni on 06 Mar 12
     
    Quantum processes shouldn't survive in hot, wet biological systems and yet a growing body of evidence suggests they do. Now physicists think they know how
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  • Luzi Bergamin on 09 Mar 12
     
    Tobias, José and myself considered an ACT project in quantum biomimetics, but it never led anywhere. Perhaps the field is sexy enough now...
  • LeopoldS on 09 Mar 12
     
    Considered is the right word ... You unfortunately never passed the step after "considering" :-)
  • Luzi Bergamin on 10 Mar 12
     
    Yes, because our bosses forced us to write strategic reports on "system of systems" :-)
  • LeopoldS on 10 Mar 12
     
    Oh these terrible ignorant slave masters .... Would love to see your "reports on system of systems" :-)
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Humies Gold Medal in the Italian Government Page!!! - 5 views

www.governo.it/...dettaglio.asp humies prize gecco
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  • Dario Izzo on 11 Jul 13
     
    Our achievement is reported on the italian government web pages .....
  • Ma Ru on 13 Jul 13
     
    Grande fratello is watching...
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Interacting Gears Synchronize Propulsive Leg Movements in a Jumping Insect - 0 views

www.sciencemag.org/...1254 bio biomimetics
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  • LeopoldS on 12 Sep 13
     
    not even gears are a human invention it seems ... Gears are found rarely in animals and have never been reported to intermesh and rotate functionally like mechanical gears. We now demonstrate functional gears in the ballistic jumping movements of the flightless planthopper insect Issus. The nymphs, but not adults, have a row of cuticular gear (cog) teeth around the curved medial surfaces of their two hindleg trochantera. The gear teeth on one trochanter engaged with and sequentially moved past those on the other trochanter during the preparatory cocking and the propulsive phases of jumping. Close registration between the gears ensured that both hindlegs moved at the same angular velocities to propel the body without yaw rotation. At the final molt to adulthood, this synchronization mechanism is jettisoned.
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Heisenbergs Dog, the foundation of quantum computing - 1 views

photonics.anu.edu.au/...HeisenbergDog.pdf PHY FUN
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  • H H on 07 Oct 14
     
    A Heisenberg's dog is the central unit in a quantum computer that factors prime numbers. We report the outcome of a proof-of-principle Gedankenexperiment in which the number 3 was factored and good agreement was found both with an analytical theoretical prediction and with the results of a quantum Las Vegas calculation. Other future applications of Heisenberg's dog are hinted at. The anonymous reports of the referees and our reply to them are reproduced in appendix A and appendix B respectively.
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Letter from Intergovernmental panel on climate change. - 2 views

docs.google.com/fileview environment climate change
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  • Nicholas Lan on 21 Jul 10
     
    To Coordinating Lead Authors, Lead Authors, and Review Editors for the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) "I would also like to emphasize that enhanced media interest in the work of the IPCC would probably subject you to queries about your work and the IPCC. My sincere advice would be that you keep a distance from the media and should any questions be asked about the Working Group with which you are associated, please direct such media questions to the Co-chairs of your Working Group and for any questions regarding the IPCC to the secretariat of the IPCC." and an amusing related memo on how to deal with Reporters if you can't avoid them. I particularly enjoyed the list of words that mean one thing to scientists and something else to other people. https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B88iFXWgVKt-NDc2N2FiM2QtYzQzYS00MWMxLWE4MGEtZjUwZDlmNzc3MTcz&hl=en
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  • Ma Ru on 21 Jul 10
     
    This. Memo. Is. Awesome.
  • pacome delva on 21 Jul 10
     
    quite weird this note of IPCC... I feel more like people have to be educated...
  • Nicholas Lan on 21 Jul 10
     
    i agree. however, (and perhaps it would have been useful to post my source which didn't seem so interesting at the time) the contents of this particular memo seems to have been interpreted as a more or less direct consequence of "ClimateGate" rather than standard practice. http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/14/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-climate-change/ On the other hand, I'd suggest that talking to the press is not necessarily a great way of educating the public, there being some truth i think to the contents of the memo.
  • LeopoldS on 21 Jul 10
     
    don't know why this seems weired or shocking - looks like some good practice advice to me
  • pacome delva on 21 Jul 10
     
    well compare to ESA it's sure it doesn't seem weird. Imagine one second a journal article about climate change: "We contacted Dr. X of the IPCC, who refused to answer to our questions..."
  • LeopoldS on 22 Jul 10
     
    this is not what the memo recommends ... it just says speak only about what you can confidently speak about and refer to others for other questions ...
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