Perhaps the sheer bulk of data makes it easier to suppress that information which we find overly unpleasant.
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Immersed In Too Much Information, We Can Sometimes Miss The Big Picture : All Tech Cons... - 1 views
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I can bury myself in a mountain of incoming information.
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we’re a lot more ready for the technology revolution than we are for Aisha
mobiles, human rights, and anonymity - 0 views
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So that got me wondering: is there a mobile equivalent of Tor? For those of you who aren't familiar with it, TOR is a software project that helps Internet users remain anonymous. Running the TOR software on your computer causes your online communications to bounce through a random series of relay servers around the world. That way, there's no easy way for authorities to track you or observe who's visiting banned websites. For example, let's say you're in Beijing and you publish a blog the authorities don't like. If you just used your PC as usual and logged into your publishing platform directly, they could follow your activities and track you down. With Tor, you hop-scotch around: your PC might connect to a server in Oslo, then Buenos Aires, then Miami, then Tokyo, then Greece before it finally connects to your blogging platform. Each time you did this, it would be a different series of servers. That way, it's really difficult for authorities to trace your steps.
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Mobile Phones, Human Rights and Anonymity I've been playing around with my new Nokia N95 for the last couple of weeks and quite amazed with its ability to stream live video from the phone to the Internet. Like last weekend when I streamed from the Smithsonian Kite Festival; for around 30 minutes I gave a tour of the festivities and took questions from users as they watched the stream over the Internet. I've also spent some time talking it up with colleagues at NPR, brainstorming the possibilities of what would happen if reporters used these phones - or if their sources did. The example that keeps coming to mind regarding the latter scenario is the rioting in Tibet. While some video has leaked out, it's been limited and often delayed. Imagine if the protestors were able to webcast their protests - and the ensuing crackdowns - live over their phones using China's GSM network? The video would stream live and get crossposted via tools like YouTube, Seesmic and Twitter, spreading the content around so it can't be snuffed. But that raises an obvious question - how long could protestors or dissidents get away with such activities before getting caught? If you were running software on your phone to send live video over a 3G network, like I've been doing on my N95, you'd think it wouldn't take too much effort on the part of the mobile provider and/or government to figure out which phone was sending the signal and its precise location. So that got me wondering: is there a mobile equivalent of Tor? For those of you who aren't familiar with it, TOR is a software project that helps Internet users remain anonymous. Running the TOR software on your computer causes your online communications to bounce through a random series of relay servers around the world. That way, there's no easy way for authorities to track you or observe who's visiting banned websites. For example, let's say you're in Beijing and you publish a blog the authorities don't like. If you just used your PC as
YouTube - Reclaim Your Mind - 0 views
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Catalysts to say what has never been said, to see what has never been seen. To draw, paint, sing, sculpt, dance and act what has never before been done. To push the envelope of creativity and language. And whats really important is, I call it, the felt presence of direct experience. Which is a fancy term which just simply means we have to stop consuming our culture. We have to create culture. Don't watch TV, don't read magazines, don't even listen to NPR. Create your own roadshow. The nexus of space and time, where you are now, is the most immediate sector of your universe. And if you're worrying about Michael Jackson or Bill Clinton or somebody else, you are disempowered. You are giving it all away to icons. Icons which are maintained by an electronic media, so that you want to dress like X or have lips like Y. This is shit-brained this kind of thinking. That is all cultural diversion. And what is real is you and your friends, your associations, your highs, your orgasms, your hopes, your plans, and your fears. And we are told no. We're unimportant, we're peripheral, get a degree, get a job, get a this, get a that, and then you're a player. You don't even want to play in that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world. Where is that at?"
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just the audio of McKenna - no music
How We Decide: How the Brain Makes ... - Google Book Search - 0 views
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I heard an interview with this author pertaining to this book on NPR a couple of weeks ago, on a show called, "What Do You Know?" and the wikipedia entry on overchoice reminded me. I thought this might apply, and possibly help someone with their research.
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Wide Gulf Divides Iraqi Youth From Older Generation - 0 views
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A great article discussing the youth of Iraq and how their beliefs have radically changed since Saddam removal and subsequent flow of free information.
Cabas Vanessa Bruno Moyen Série Il - 0 views
Ce dernier débutera cette mission, attendue de longue date par les intersyndicats de praticiens hospitaliers, à compter du 1er décembre prochain. Premier objectif : permettre la "mise en œuvre rapi...
Cabas Vanessa Bruno Moyen Série Il - 0 views
Ce dernier débutera cette mission, attendue de longue date par les intersyndicats de praticiens hospitaliers, à compter du 1er décembre prochain. Premier objectif : permettre la "mise en œuvre rapi...
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