Eighteen Months ago, I bought a 1 Terrabyte Lacie Big Ethernet Drive from a reseller on eBay for $530.00 (advertised with a three year warranty). I purchased the Lacie because a friend of mine who was in the video production game told me, “You can’t go past the Lacie drives, they’re indestructible.” On [...]
Early last year we blogged about Anonymous and his speech posted on Youtube. We described and quoted a US website as to what constitutes an act of war. DECLARATION OF WAR – An act of the national legislature, in which a state of war is declared to exist between a nation and some [...]
The following is from “The Value Of Nothing” by Raj Patel. The late Oxford philosopher Jerry Cohen concieved a thought experiment that helps us understand how money works, and the way that it intersects with the liberty offered by free markets. When the market rations goods on the basis of money, he argued, there's reason [...]
Copenhagen has begun and a lot of hot air is being spouted – all in a good cause, admittedly. The climategate wagons keep going driven by who knows what – the fact that some scientists don't tell the unvarnished truth? Of course it is true that of all the cops, judges, policitians, executives, real estate [...]
Back in 2002 an opinion piece was published in the Christian Science Monitor debunking the concept of Al Qaida as the “top brand” in terrorism, and how, in doing creating this myth, western security forces were creating a rod for their own backs. The article went on to talk about the phenomenon of “exaggerated enemies” [...]
Setting the Scene. Consultants are people/firms that are hired to divorce an organisations internal politics from a result and quite often, consultants bring with them a differential focused expertise in the area requiring their expert attention. There’s an accepted modus operandi for consultancy firms in business, “When you get hired, look for more [...]
According to Secrecy News there is a growing number of patents that are being deemed strategic to national security and therefore being classed as secret. Under the Invention Secrecy Act of 1951, U.S. government agencies may restrict the disclosure of a patent application whenever its publication is deemed “detrimental to the national security.” In Fiscal [...]
There is movement underfoot in the UK to halt the Governments proposed ‘three strikes and your out’, legislation. A few months ago I blogged about the file sharers increasingly successful disappearance act. The Copyright Industry is Removing the Barriers Against Terrorism. In a story entitled MI5 comes out against cutting off internet pirates [...]
Sometimes you can read a paragraph and skip right over important words. It is not till later that something in the brain clicks and says “Whoa”! The other day I quoted a paragraph from wikileaks: In 2007 a select handful of the wealthiest countries began a treaty-making process to create a new global [...]
I am sure that we have all been victims or observed the playground bully at work.And some of my readers may even have pulled wings off fly’s. I’m ashamed to admit that I did. Although I am pleased to announce that my magnifying glass torturing of ants and fly’s ceased when I was about 9.As [...]