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Two military spy telescopes, just as big and powerful as Hubble, donated to NASA

The telescopes were built by private contractors for the National Reconnaissance Office, one of 16 U.S. intelligence agencies. Each have 2.4-meter (7.9-foot) mirrors, just like the Hubble, but they have 100 times the field of view.

the telescopes, built in the late 1990s and early 2000s, are now technologically outdated, at least for intelligence operations, despite being just as powerful as Hubble. Now that something that’s worth taking into consideration. Moreover, these telescopes worth hundreds of millions of dollars have never seen operation! Instead they’ve been shelved in a warehouse somewhere, of course, classified. And they might find themselves, yet again, blocked in a warehouse, since NASA, on a string budget, doesn’t have the necessary cash to fit them.

Selon l’institut d’analyses Berg Insight, 13 pays utilisaient le système de portefeuillle électronique au début de 2013, alors qu’il n’en existait que six à la fin de 2011. Si ces services ne sont disponibles que pour un petit nombre d’utilisateurs, il existe quand même trois services mobiles de portefeuille électronique en NFC qui concernent plus de 100 000 personnes, dont Google Wallet et Isis aux Etats-Unis et Turkcell Wallet en Turquie. Berg Insight estime qu’au cours des prochaines années, la plus grande disponibilité de téléphones NFC, de terminaux de paiement et de gestionnaires de services de confiance (TSM) va favoriser l’expansion de cette technologie. Les ventes mondiales de téléphones NFC ont augmenté de 300 % pour atteindre 140 millions d’unités en 2012. Et la base installée de téléphones NFC devrait croître à un taux de croissance annuel de 65 % au cours des prochaines années pour atteindre 2 milliards d’unités d’ici à 2017.

An SMS was sent to mobile number:

+15146542358

ikiLeaks says you can find them through wikileaks.ch, which redirects to a dotted ID. People exchange this information on Twitter. So in a weird sneaker-net sort of way we have implemented a human DNS.

All the while there's a huge glaring 800-pound-gorilla elephant-in-the-room size contradiction. The pols say that businesses can't support WikiLeaks, but the Guardian and the NY Times and the newspapers in Pakistan, Indonesia, Israel -- all over the world -- they're businesses too. So if they're really serious about this, we're in First Amendment territory. They ought to be careful, because the politicians depend on these businesses to sell their product. Without them, they have no way to lie to us.   See the problem isn't that WikiLeaks is lying, the problem is that they're telling the truth. This is not business as usual. 

It seems to me that at the end of this chain is BitTorrent. That when WikiLeaks wants to publish the next archive, they can get their best practice from eztv.it, and have 20 people scattered around the globe at the ends of various big pipes ready to seed it. Once the distribution is underway the only way to shut it down will be to shut down the Internet itself.

In this document 1. Preparing Your Development Computer 2. Downloading the SDK Starter Package 3. Installing the ADT Plugin for Eclipse 4. Adding Platforms and Other Components Available Components Recommended Components

This page describes how to install the Android SDK and set up your development environment for the first time.