Hey Guys,
just what is going on with Nasa?
I thought that we had some bacteria 2 decades back that could purify copper
and was extremely ready for marketing, even a stock offering. Did that not
have the ability to handle arsenic? I recall a mountain of ore being
processed with bacteria and
Sounds like an extremely toxic research environment. Poisonous reviews...
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 10:39 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote:
> Ah, a microbiologist rips the NASA research:
>
>
> http://rrresearch.blogspot.com/2010/12/arsenic-associated-bacteria-nasas.html
>
> finding lots of places where t
Ah, a microbiologist rips the NASA research:
http://rrresearch.blogspot.com/2010/12/arsenic-associated-bacteria-nasas.html
finding lots of places where they didn't do (or didn't report the results
of) additional experimental work she would have sent any graduate student
back to the lab to do.
<
Independent.
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 10:28 PM, Nicholas Thompson <
nickthomp...@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Owen n all,
>
> For me, in the age of Fox news and media consolidation, the benefit of the
> doubt goes to Wikileaks.
>
> Oh, and, by the way: As of Obama's announcement today, I am trolling fo
Owen n all,
For me, in the age of Fox news and media consolidation, the benefit of the
doubt goes to Wikileaks.
Oh, and, by the way: As of Obama's announcement today, I am trolling for a
third party. Any suggestions?
Nick
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From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mail
On Dec 6, 2010, at 7:18 PM, Robert Holmes wrote:
> This is an interesting and—IMHO—nicely balanced piece. It's all shades of
> grey, man -- R
>
> http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2010/12/wikileaks-and-the-long-haul/
Hard to argue with Clay's point that a balance of power, with clear and just
laws,
Russell -
I forgot to mention... I've been using Collecta to monitor the real-time
traffic since about 9PM GMT-7 on the topic and have a dozen or so data
points which are roughly linear... I suppose I might have been the
only one tracking at that level...
And when I say linear, I often sus
On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 09:16:03PM -0700, Steve Smith wrote:
> On 12/6/10 6:21 PM, Owen Densmore wrote:
> >Doug: I've asked the Berkman Center to include a risk assessment for our
> >helping out via the mirroring stunt you posted. Note the mirror list is
> >growing fast:
> > Wikileaks is cur
On 12/6/10 6:21 PM, Owen Densmore wrote:
Doug: I've asked the Berkman Center to include a risk assessment for our
helping out via the mirroring stunt you posted. Note the mirror list is
growing fast:
Wikileaks is currently mirrored on 729 sites (updated 2010-12-06 22:32 GMT)
I'm surprise
This is an interesting and—IMHO—nicely balanced piece. It's all shades of
grey, man -- R
http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2010/12/wikileaks-and-the-long-haul/
FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John
That's cool, Owen. The US continues to strive, with some success, to make
itself out as a nation of idiots/cowards/and/or sheep in the eyes of the
rest of the world. Thankfully, there are enough active mirrors to
essentially guarantee that the WikiLeaks material won't be lost.
--Doug
On Mon, De
Doug: I've asked the Berkman Center to include a risk assessment for our
helping out via the mirroring stunt you posted. Note the mirror list is
growing fast:
Wikileaks is currently mirrored on 729 sites (updated 2010-12-06 22:32 GMT)
-- Owen
On Dec 6, 2010, at 10:32 AM, Douglas Rober
The Berkman Center for Internet & Society is going to have Larry Lessig and
Jonathan Zittrain moderate a discussion .. see more here: http://goo.gl/VFoV9
Feel free to add a topic to the discussion via the url above .. either as a
comment or on their twitter account listed there.
-- Owen
==
G
Well, I guess, both are illusions.
n
From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf
Of James Steiner
Sent: Monday, December 06, 2010 5:30 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] WikiLeaks, US Gov't prohibition, Co
Russell,
Oh, well! I couldn't' agree more: the reviewers who were recruited to read
MY stuff were alsoall idiots and brigands.
A stand standard review package consisted of
"REVIEWER A: This is the worst piece of outdated trash I have read in the
last ten years. Where has this author been f
Russell Standish wrote circa 10-12-04 06:24 PM:
> 3gp is a low-res MPEG4 format used by 3G phones for sending videos
> between each (eg via MMS). MPlayer (used by most Linux media players)
> has no problems figuring out how to play it - its a little more tricky
> to generate the format from say a r
Ah, the fatal attraction of privilege: the illusion that as long as NOBODY
gives a ff what *you* do, everything is OK.
That's not directed at you, Nick, but I couldn't resist the parallel
structure.
~~J
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Nicholas Thompson <
nickthomp...@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Ahh
I just posted the final piece of the meta-circular Humus evaluator.
"Evaluating Expressions, part 7 – Transactions and Exceptions"
(http://bit.ly/fl6Z3O)
Throughout the series, I've had the opportunity to present a wide
variety of powerful language constructs. Of course, concurrent
evaluation/exe
On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 03:27:19PM -0800, glen e. p. ropella wrote:
> And when I see review comments to papers I'm a co-author on, they
> usually contain constructive feedback. I do often have to sift through
> prejudiced tangents or twist my mind to see their point of view in order
> to get to th
Russell Standish wrote circa 10-12-06 02:03 PM:
> What you write is a good description of how it ought to be. Sadly, it
> is not a description of how it is.
Hm. I can accept that your experiences make you think that. My
experiences make me think the opposite. Most of the scientists I know
grudg
On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 11:48:54AM -0800, glen e. p. ropella wrote:
> Russell Standish wrote circa 10-12-04 02:31 PM:
> > On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 10:18:26AM -0800, glen e. p. ropella wrote:
> >>
> >> to change, etc. So, they really do have to commit to work like this.
> >>
> >
> > No scientist wi
Just for the interest, I thought I'd look into how I might do
this. Technically, it'd be very easy - just create an FTP account on
my hosted webservice, and set up the extra domain.
The problem is that they would get me by the terms of service:
"Personal accounts are to be used by the primary own
Ah! The fatal attraction of paranoia. The illusion that ANYBODY gives
a ff what I do.
N
From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf
Of Roger Critchlow
Sent: Monday, December 06, 2010 11:48 AM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Subje
The abundance of online discussions about WikiLeaks, has provoked me to
recall a conversation I had with an individual at an 'Internetworking'
meeting at the Carnegie Inst. in DC, in 1992.We met for the first
time, and quickly shared our interest in 'information warfare'. Though
he could
There are those that say the leaks about the Saudis and other Arab states
calling for military intervention in Iran were deliberate.
But this being said, it is highly unlikely that WikiLeaks will change any
policies.
thanks, Paul
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From: Nicholas Thompson
To: '
Glen,
Your description is pretty much a precise description of my reaction every
time I got a paper for review.
"What if nobody were willing to do this?"
N
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From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf
Of glen e. p. ropella
Sent: Mo
I like the idea that wikileaks is a CIA plot.
It screeches the mind to a halt. You can't even trust your distrust
anymore.
Nick
From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf
Of Paul Paryski
Sent: Monday, December 06, 2010 1:10 PM
To: friam@redfish.co
^Like
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Nicholas Thompson <
nickthomp...@earthlink.net> wrote:
> I like the idea that wikileaks is a CIA plot.
>
>
>
> It screeches the mind to a halt. You can’t even trust your distrust
> anymore.
>
>
>
> Nick
>
>
>
> *From:* friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam
In my opinion, based on personal observation, the political and economic system
of the United States is quickly declining and darkly dystrophic as has been the
case with all "empires". The information provided by WikiLeaks, although not
at all surprising, and the reaction of the government to W
Marcie at emptywheel.firedoglake.com addressed this earlier today -
somehow no cable trunks ending in the Middle East on this list, nor
in Africa (despite the new big cable going around the continent?
Or the 4 cables going into Egypt that were accidentally cut to major
outages last year?)
All of
Russell Standish wrote circa 10-12-04 02:31 PM:
> On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 10:18:26AM -0800, glen e. p. ropella wrote:
>>
>> to change, etc. So, they really do have to commit to work like this.
>>
>
> No scientist will do peer review for the sake of paying bills.
Sorry, that was not my implicatio
I can't help but notice that the majority of our hard core FRIAM
pontificators have remained silent on this one. I wonder why: Could it be
that they're not not interested? The topic is not abstract enough? Afraid
that Big Brother will hear them? Weren't aware of WikiLeaks?
Over on another one
Why worry about gmail? Worry about the NSA backdoor that Intel added to the
x86 microcode years ago, until you get tired, then go back to your regularly
scheduled activities.
-- rec --
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Owen Densmore wrote:
>
> BTW: one concern I've had lately is the large numbe
Well, that's the issue, isn't it? The people in the government justify
secrecy by one standard and then use it for whatever they can get away with,
and you can get away with a lot if no one is ever allowed to see what you've
done. So they claim strenuously that exposing secrets will endanger peop
I propose a beer conversation at cowgirl or second street soon to discuss this.
I hope the beer is not bugged.
BTW: one concern I've had lately is the large number of folks converting to
gmail. What a target for the Feds! And just how much resistance would Google
put up? Can you say Zero?
We should all be thankful that this exchange is occurring on FRIAM, rather
than on Facebook. Else we would have endangered our job prospects.
I'm not making this up:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/04/state-department-to-colum_n_792059.html?view=print
Big Brother is watching. Be afraid,
In a similar vein, where, exactly, is the huge, classified secret regarding
the revelation that blowing up the Ningbo port in south-eastern China will
have a large negative impact on global trade. Or that taking out an
anti-snake venom factory in Australia will have a significant impact on our
abi
Interesting: Amazon is now getting into the DNS server world (apparently not
registrar, however).
Love the pricing: $1.00 per month for the hosted zones you manage, $0.50 per
million queries for the first billion queries, and $0.25 per million queries
above a billion.
I'd be curious just how m
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Scholand, Andrew J wrote:
> In February 2009 the State Department asked all US missions abroad to list
> all installations whose loss could critically affect US national security.
>
> The list includes pipelines, communication and transport hubs.
>
>
Well, consider
Well, before you mirror Wikifreaks, you may want to read this from BBC News:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11923766:
'A long list of key facilities around the world that the US describes as vital
to its national security has been released by Wikileaks.
In February 2009 the State Dep
If you want to add your site to the (currently) 507 sites mirroring
WikiLeaks, just follow the instructions here:
http://www.wikileaks.ch/mass-mirror.html
--Doug
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Owen Densmore wrote:
> On Dec 6, 2010, at 1:15 AM, Steve Smith wrote:
> > ...
>
> As usual, nicely
On Dec 6, 2010, at 1:15 AM, Steve Smith wrote:
> ...
As usual, nicely thought out and articulated.
For me its simple. I like WikiLeaks and the counter pressure they bring to
bear. Not all corporations, politicians, militaries, labs, and so on are evil,
but lately they've been throwing their po
Exactly why should we boycott a vendor when he's implementing
what the public has agreed is a good thing, to bipartisan acclaim?
So we've failed to get our preferences communicated to our elected
representatives, so much so that "our guys" are implementing porn searches
in airports, assisting cov
And my biggest bugaboo with conspiracy theorists... what if your
favorite conspiracy theory is a conspiracy in itself?
http://mycatbirdseat.com/2010/12/could-israel-be-using-wikileaks-to-prepare-us-for-air-strike-against-iran/
I hate to stir the pot more, but it is a credible question as to
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