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  • Tracking the Trackers

     As you surf the Web, information is being collected about you. Web tracking is not 100% evil — personal data can make your browsing more efficient; cookies can help your favorite websites stay in business. But, says Gary Kovacs, it’s your right to know what data is being collected about you and how it affects…

  • The Black Hole of What?

    In networking, black holes refer to places in the network where incoming traffic is silently discarded (or “dropped”), without informing the source that the data did not reach its intended recipient. When examining the topology of the network, the black holes themselves are invisible, and can only be detected by monitoring the lost traffic; hence…

  • BroadBand Technology

    Broadband research is a McGill area of expertise. Meet researchers such as David Plant, Tho Le-Ngoc, and Mark Coates who are on the cutting edge of machine to machine communication, high-speed internet technologies, and wireless communications. Dialogos of Eide

  • BroadBand Portals of the OECD

    Tim Berners-Lee, Director of the World Wide Web Consortium and inventor of the World Wide Web, talks about the challenges ahead and why an open Internet is key to its continuing success *** The OECD broadband portal provides access to a range of broadband-related statistics gathered by the OECD. Policy makers must examine a range…

  • Mega Mind?

    Source:Numerical Relativity Code and Machine Timeline In 2005 in “Lightening,” as Strings, Strike?” I could see where certain issues were developing in terms of using computerized techniques in order establish a numerical correlations. Computations with how one might look and see the universe. Albeit, the brain in the end always came to my mind too.…

  • UK intelligence to monitor electronic communications

    But Britain’s home office interior ministry said ministers were preparing to legislate “as soon as parliamentary time allows”, saying it would be data, not content, that would be monitored. “It is vital that police and security services are able to obtain communications data in certain circumstances to investigate serious crime and terrorism and to protect…

  • Thoughts on the Filter Bubble

     What got me thinking. This was part of a  comment to a post I read this morning. This was the catalyst for it’s construction. I do not think I supply any answers but just make one more aware of their surroundings. Matt:”It would appear, from the above comments, that almost the only people willing to…

  • Rural > City > Cyberspace

    The Biggest Migration In Human History. Nicholas Carr , 09 Jan 2012 Right-click to download Lao P. Xia Xiaowan See: Rural > City > Cyberspace Dialogos of Eide

  • Flattening the World: Building a Global Knowledge Society

    The focus of the 2012 meeting, then, is on using the power of electronic communications and information resources to tackle the complex problems of the 21st century on a global scale through international, multidisciplinary efforts. We have a model already in the scale and scope of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). But that’s…

  • Control the Medium, You Control the Product?

    The historical record, as I’ve also argued, is also quite unequivocal on the folly of allowing those who own the medium to control the message See: The Vertical Integration Elephant in the Room  For differing points of view some might have a take on the process unfolding in our society today as a sign of…

  • Google Books Library Project

    What’s the goal of this project? The Library Project’s aim is simple: make it easier for people to find relevant books – specifically, books they wouldn’t find any other way such as those that are out of print – while carefully respecting authors’ and publishers’ copyrights. Our ultimate goal is to work with publishers and…