Tag Archives: Spectrum

My Hat’s Off too: Open Hardware Movement

Posted on July 10, 2011 by PlatoHagel

Sir Tim, creator of the World Wide Web, pointed to open data and linked data as exciting examples of the way that the Web is promoting transparency of information and looked forward to the time when the current 20 per … Continue reading →

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Do Cellphones Cause Brain Cancer?

Posted on May 30, 2011 by PlatoHagel

Bruce Gilden/Magnum, for The New York Times On Jan. 21, 1993, the television talk-show host Larry King featured an unexpected guest on his program. It was the evening after Inauguration Day in Washington, and the television audience tuned in expecting … Continue reading →

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Web Science

Posted on May 29, 2011 by PlatoHagel

  See:Creating a Science of the Web The Web is the largest human information construct in history. The Web is transforming society. In order to…understand what the Web is engineer its future ensure its social benefit …we need a new … Continue reading →

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Digital Future Survey:You Should Look

Posted on May 2, 2011 by PlatoHagel

Digital Future Survey: The Parties Respond *** To whom it may concern: The early Internet was so accidental, it also was free and open in this sense. The Internet has become as important as anything man has ever created. But … Continue reading →

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We Cannot Apply Constraints to Communication?

Posted on January 14, 2011 by PlatoHagel

Is the public winners in decisions that “add more cost” to what should be access to “freedoms of information?” The Cathedral and the Bizarre by Jeff Lewis The problem there is that the ‘capitalist trench’ problem is just as real … Continue reading →

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Free Access to the Universal Library?

Posted on June 14, 2009 by PlatoHagel

“The World Digital Library will make available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from cultures around the world, including manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, archi­tectural drawings, and other … Continue reading →

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Events → Richard M. Stallman Speeches

Posted on January 15, 2009 by PlatoHagel

Richard Matthew Stallman (born March 16, 1953), often abbreviated “rms”,[2] is an American software freedom activist, hacker,[3] and software developer. In September 1983, he launched the GNU Project[4] to create a free Unix-like operating system, and has been the project’s … Continue reading →

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Larry Page in Support of White Space?

Posted on November 10, 2008 by PlatoHagel

The United States 700 MHz FCC wireless spectrum auction was started by the FCC on January 24, 2008 for the rights to operate the 700 MHz frequency band in the United States. The details of process were the subject of … Continue reading →

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WIFI and Spectrum

Posted on November 2, 2008 by PlatoHagel

A free public Wi-Fi access point Wardriving is the act of searching for Wi-Fi wireless networks by a person in a moving vehicle, using a portable computer or PDA. Software for wardriving is freely available on the Internet, notably NetStumbler … Continue reading →

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White Space

Posted on October 30, 2008 by PlatoHagel

While existing companies control access to the internet it is with some contention that I see people regardless of the portal created through to internet access should have “free access” to this. Currently Governments hold the rights to auction so … Continue reading →

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