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Gonzalo San Gil, PhD.

Book Review: Ethical Hacking and Penetration Testing Guide - EH-Net Online Mag - 0 views

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    "don | September 30, 2014 When asked by CRC Press to review a recently released book, Ethical Hacking and Penetration Testing Guide by Rafay Baloch, a closer look was in order before agreeing. The book description reads, "Requiring no prior hacking experience, Ethical Hacking and Penetration Testing Guide supplies a complete introduction to the steps required to complete a penetration test, or ethical hack, from beginning to end."
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    "don | September 30, 2014 When asked by CRC Press to review a recently released book, Ethical Hacking and Penetration Testing Guide by Rafay Baloch, a closer look was in order before agreeing. The book description reads, "Requiring no prior hacking experience, Ethical Hacking and Penetration Testing Guide supplies a complete introduction to the steps required to complete a penetration test, or ethical hack, from beginning to end."
Gonzalo San Gil, PhD.

Announcing the Open Organization book club | Opensource.com - 0 views

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    "I'd like to invite you to join us for a virtual book club to discuss open leadership, organizational management, and other ideas from The Open Organization: Igniting Passion and Performance by Jim Whitehurst. Starting on August 31, we'll discuss the book chapter by chapter, for seven weeks, one chapter per week."
Gonzalo San Gil, PhD.

Top P2P Books You Should Have Read in 2014 (1): The return of the cooperative commonwea... - 0 views

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    "Michel Bauwens 25th January 2015 Our book of the year is Humanizing the Economy by John Restakis. See why below.. I can truthfully say it's one of the most important books I have read in the last ten years."
Gonzalo San Gil, PhD.

Open source analogy for the in-laws | Opensource.com - 0 views

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    " ...Imagine, I began, the software running on your computer as a collection of books in a library. Some books are new, some are old, some are interesting, and some are not. ..." [... feel free to use or improve.]
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    " ...Imagine, I began, the software running on your computer as a collection of books in a library. Some books are new, some are old, some are interesting, and some are not. ..." [... feel free to use or improve.]
Gonzalo San Gil, PhD.

Techdirt Reading List: The Idealist: Aaron Swartz And The Rise Of Free Culture On The I... - 0 views

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    "from the free-culture-matters dept We're back again with another in our weekly reading list posts of books we think our community will find interesting and thought provoking. Once again, buying the book via the Amazon links in this story also helps support Techdirt. "
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    "from the free-culture-matters dept We're back again with another in our weekly reading list posts of books we think our community will find interesting and thought provoking. Once again, buying the book via the Amazon links in this story also helps support Techdirt. "
Gonzalo San Gil, PhD.

Pirate Party Books Election Victory in Iceland - TorrentFreak - 0 views

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    " Ernesto on October 30, 2016 C: 68 Breaking The Pirate Party in Iceland booked an important victory in the local parliamentary election today, scoring 14.5% of the total vote. While lower than most polls predicted, it marks the first time that a Pirate Party, anywhere in the world, has a serious shot at taking part in a government coalition."
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The Value of Nothing-Raj Patel » Blog Archive » - 1 views

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    ""This is a deeply thought-provoking book about the dramatic changes we must make to save the planet from financial madness" - Naomi Klein. Opening with Oscar Wilde's observation that "nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing," Patel shows how our faith in prices as a way of valuing the world is misplaced. He reveals the hidden ecological and social costs of a hamburger (as much as $200), and asks how we came to have markets in the first place. Both the corporate capture of government and our current financial crisis, Patel argues, are a result of our democratically bankrupt political system. If part one asks how we can rebalance society and limit markets, part two answers by showing how social organizations, in America and around the globe, are finding new ways to describe the world's worth. If we don't want the market to price every aspect of our lives, we need to learn how such organizations have discovered democratic ways in which people, and not simply governments, can play a crucial role in deciding how we might share our world and its resources in common. This short, timely and inspiring book reveals that our current crisis is not simply the result of too much of the wrong kind of economics. While we need to rethink our economic model, Patel argues that the larger failure beneath the food, climate and economic crises is a political one. If economics is about choices, Patel writes, it isn't often said who gets to make them. The Value of Nothing offers a fresh and accessible way to think about economics and the choices we will all need to make in order to create a sustainable economy and society."
Gonzalo San Gil, PhD.

Book review: Git for Teams | Opensource.com - 0 views

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    "Git for Teams by Emma Jane Hogbin Westby is a good technology book, but it's the non-technical parts that make it excellent."
Gonzalo San Gil, PhD.

Open organizations encourage those who poke the box | Opensource.com - 0 views

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    "Recently, I read Seth Godin's book Poke the Box: When Was the Last Time You Did Something for the First Time?. It's a short book, but it's filled with anecdotes about people who have "poked the box," which is to say they have taken a risk."
Gonzalo San Gil, PhD.

8 Steps You Must Take to Write a Book - Medium - 1 views

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    "If you're a writer, then there's a strong chance you pay a lot of attention to getting your work published. And rightly so. It's important for writers to know their options so that they can make the best choice for their completed work."
Gonzalo San Gil, PhD.

Open Source Life: How the open movement will change everything [# ! CHK Via Note...] - 0 views

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    Dániel Szőke July 6, 2016 Lifestyle | Values, Topics Consider this: in just a few short years, the open-source encyclopedia Wikipedia has made closed-source encyclopedias obsolete - both the hard-bound kind and the CD-ROM or commercial online kind. Goodbye World Book and Brittanica.
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    Dániel Szőke July 6, 2016 Lifestyle | Values, Topics Consider this: in just a few short years, the open-source encyclopedia Wikipedia has made closed-source encyclopedias obsolete - both the hard-bound kind and the CD-ROM or commercial online kind. Goodbye World Book and Brittanica.
Gonzalo San Gil, PhD.

Internet Archive Seeks to Defend Against Wrongful Copyright Takedowns - TorrentFreak [#... - 0 views

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    " By Andy on March 23, 2016 C: 25 Breaking As a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software and music, the Internet Archive has a keen interest in copyright law. In a submission to the U.S. Copyright Office the Archive says since the major studios often send invalid notices, they're suggesting a change in the law to allow content to remain up while disputes are settled."
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    " By Andy on March 23, 2016 C: 25 Breaking As a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software and music, the Internet Archive has a keen interest in copyright law. In a submission to the U.S. Copyright Office the Archive says since the major studios often send invalid notices, they're suggesting a change in the law to allow content to remain up while disputes are settled."
Gonzalo San Gil, PhD.

School cancels reading program rather than promote "hacker culture" | Ars Technica - 0 views

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    "Boing Boing editor responds, offers 200 free copies to the school's students. by Joe Silver - June 10 2014, 8:04pm CEST Activism Web Culture 212 Enlarge Cory Doctorow After the Booker T. Washington Public High School in Pensacola, Florida, placed best-selling author and popular Boing Boing blog editor Cory Doctorow's young adult novel Little Brother on its "One School/One Book" summer reading list, the school's administration promptly cancelled the school-wide reading program."
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    "Boing Boing editor responds, offers 200 free copies to the school's students. by Joe Silver - June 10 2014, 8:04pm CEST Activism Web Culture 212 Enlarge Cory Doctorow After the Booker T. Washington Public High School in Pensacola, Florida, placed best-selling author and popular Boing Boing blog editor Cory Doctorow's young adult novel Little Brother on its "One School/One Book" summer reading list, the school's administration promptly cancelled the school-wide reading program."
Gonzalo San Gil, PhD.

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Ferananda Ibarra

Network organisation for the 21st century : turbulence - 4 views

  • On the Virtues of Being Popular In any network, some nodes are more connected than others, making them ‘hubs’. This is a recurring pattern in the evolution of successful networks, ranging from the world wide web to many natural ecosystems. A ‘hub’ is not just a node with a few more connections than a usual node; a hub has connections to many other nodes – many quite distant – and also connects many disparate nodes (nodes of very different types). If you were to count all the connections each node has, you would get a mathematical distribution called a ‘power-law’ distribution with relatively few hyper-connected nodes – hubs – and a ‘long tail’ of less connected nodes.
  • Unlike networks that have a normal or random distribution of connections, networks that have a power-law distribution of connections are ‘scale-free,’ which means that no matter how many more nodes are added to the network, the dynamics and structure remain the same. This seems to be a sweet spot in the evolution of networks for stability and efficiency. The network can get bigger without drastic changes to its function.
  • The Surprising Strength of the Long Tail There is a looming contradiction: how can we have hubs and still have a strong network of dense connections that is not dependent on them? Don’t hubs lead to the emergence of permanent, entrenched leaders, centralisation and other well-documented problems? There is something of a tension here: the point is not simply that we should develop hubs, but that we have to simultaneously ensure that the hubs are never allowed to become static, and that they’re at least partially redundant. Sounds complicated, but healthy and resilient networks aren’t characterised simply by the presence of hubs, but also by the ability of hubs to change over time, and the replacement of previous hubs by apparently quite similar hubs.
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  • The long tail does not drop off into nothingness (which would be the ‘exponential’ rather than ‘power-law’ distribution), where there are a few hubs and every other node has almost no connections. Instead, the long tail is extensive, consisting of small groups of dense connections, going ever onwards. In fact, the vast majority of the connections in the network are not in the hub, but in the long tail. One clear example is that of book-selling in the 21st century: the majority of Amazon.com’s book sales are not in the best-seller list, but in those millions of titles in the long tail that only a few people order. Every successful movement must be built on dense local connections. It is these dense local connections that support the dynamic creation of hubs.
  • In a perfect world, every node would be a hub – we would all easily connect with any other person and be able to communicate. However, creating connections takes time and energy, so nodes that are more long-standing or just have more spare time will naturally become hubs
  • The Construction of Collective Intelligence Hubs tend to evolve naturally in well-functioning networks – but we can accelerate the process of network development
  • Collective intelligence requires a commons of collective representations and memory accessible to the network, and so digital representations on the internet are idea
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      That is exactly what they can do! Currencies as currents, as symbols of value enabling and making flows visible. Allowing us to see the tracks of the pheromones, the activities, the streams, the right signals, the hubs. We will be able to measure, trace value much more precisely. We will then be able to compose flows into landscapes (scapes) of that which is interesting for a node, for a hub, for a group or machine. Scapes will allow us to display information in unimaginable ways. Our collective intelligence right there, in the blink of an eye. We will be able to see wholes instead of parts, make patterns more visible.
  • You can imagine this on an individual level: a person using their mobile phone to remember the phone numbers of their friends. With easy access and reliability, the phone almost seems part of your intelligence. Just extend this so that the part of your mind that is extended into the environment is accessible and even modifiable by other people, and collective intelligence begins.
  • This use of the environment to store collective intelligence allows for the easier creation of hubs.
  • Collective intelligence allows highly organised successful actions to be performed by individuals who, with limited memory and knowledge, would otherwise be unable to become hubs.
  • Unfortunately people can’t become hubs without largely re-inventing the wheel. It might be irritating for existing hubs, but it’s true. Being a hub requires more than just introductions, it requires information, skills, knowledge, and a memory of the past. However, we can accelerate this process by decentring as much of the connections and knowledge as possible away from individual humans and onto the environment, whether this environment be books, websites, songs, maps, videos, and a myriad of yet un-thought-of representational forms. A useful example is the pheromone trace of the ant, reinforced as more ants use a particular trail. The mere act of ‘leaving a trail’ shows how individuals with limited memory can use the shaping of the environment as an external memory.
  • A key focus for improving our collective intelligence would be a few central websites compiling analyses of social movements and events, alongside practical pieces from key hubs and organisers on how particular events were pulled off. A collective ratings approach would allow people to quickly find needles in the electronic haystack, via Digg-It-style ‘I like this article’ tags, or collaborative bookmarking, allowing different users to see each other’s bookmarked webpages. Of course some of these types of things exist, with tagging systems well developed on sites of magazines, newspapers and blogs. However, no current website performs the function of an analysis and learning hub
  • If we are to act swiftly and sustain momentum we will need to create collective intelligence – the ability to create accurate records of events, distribute them widely, analyse success and failure, and to pass on skills and knowledge.
Gonzalo San Gil, PhD.

The open-source programming world has a lot to teach democracy, from Clay Shirky | TED ... - 0 views

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    Further reading in GitHub "The open-source programming world has a lot to teach democracy, says Clay Shirky. In this fascinating talk from TEDGlobal 2012, Shirky harkens back to the early days of the printing press. At the time, a group of "natural philosophers" (who would later adopt the term "scientists") called the Invisible College realized that the press could offer a new way to share and debate their work. However, because printing books would be far too slow for this purpose, they came up with a new invention - the scientific journal."
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    Further reading in GitHub "The open-source programming world has a lot to teach democracy, says Clay Shirky. In this fascinating talk from TEDGlobal 2012, Shirky harkens back to the early days of the printing press. At the time, a group of "natural philosophers" (who would later adopt the term "scientists") called the Invisible College realized that the press could offer a new way to share and debate their work. However, because printing books would be far too slow for this purpose, they came up with a new invention - the scientific journal."
Gonzalo San Gil, PhD.

Learn more about deep learning and neural networks | Opensource.com - 0 views

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    "Dig into deep learning in this interview with the authors of the recently released O'Reilly book Deep Learning: A Practitioner's Approach."
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    "Dig into deep learning in this interview with the authors of the recently released O'Reilly book Deep Learning: A Practitioner's Approach."
Gonzalo San Gil, PhD.

Overcomplicated technology and the need for biological thinking | Ars Technica UK - 0 views

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    "Sam Arbesman's newest book, Overcomplicated, looks at how many technological systems have grown so complex that they defy easy understanding. In the following lightly edited excerpt, he argues that we need to learn to think more like biologists in order to work with the technology we've created."
Gonzalo San Gil, PhD.

What's the most difficult lesson to learn about open culture? Posted | 06 Jun 2016 | b... - 0 views

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    A recap of the June 2 #OpenOrgChat What's the most difficult lesson to learn about open culture? Posted 06 Jun 2016 by The Open Organization June 2 marked the one-year anniversary of Jim Whitehurst's book, The Open Organization, which explores the ways open source principles are changing the future of management. The open organization community at Opensource.com celebrated in style with a live (and lively!) chat on Twitter. Check out the highlights below-and get set for the next chat. ...
Gonzalo San Gil, PhD.

Quantum Theory Proves Consciousness Moves To Another Universe At Death | The Viral Post - 1 views

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    "A book titled "Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness Are the Keys to Understanding the Nature of the Universe" contains a notion that life does not end when the body dies, and it can last forever."
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