Wikileaks is “underground” in the way that the NSA is “covert”; not because it’s inherently obscure, but because it’s discreetly not spoken about.
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This storm is not like any other we’ve had to deal with,” Mr. Bloomberg said at a news conference from the Office of Emergency Management in Downtown Brooklyn late Tuesday morning, referring to the intensity of the blizzard and the number of vehicles that remain stuck in snowdrifts on city streets. “We are doing everything we possibly can.
I was part of the NYC Bicycle Advisory Committee formed by Koch in 1978. Much of the agenda laid out then was accomplished by Koch, and much of the rest has been put in place by following administrations. Koch was not at all a bicycle failure, and what Bloomberg is doing is not at all out of line with plans laid out over 30 years ago.
I don’t care who you love; if you love this country enough to risk your life for it, you shouldn’t have to hide who you are. You ought to be able to serve.
Sen. Ron Wyden. Senate votes to repeal ‘don’t ask, don’t tell"
…the [USPS] has a unique asset that could allow it to make money by collecting valuable data that would contribute to the country’s safety and economic health: its far-reaching network of trucks. The service’s thousands of delivery vehicles have only one purpose now: to transport mail. But what if they were fitted with sensors to collect and transmit information about weather or air pollutants? The trucks would go from being bulky tools of industrial-age communication to being on the cutting edge of 21st-century information-gathering and forecasting.
The lab, called Genspace, is billed as a nursery for biotech entrepreneurs. It’s compliant with the Center for Disease Control’s biosafety level 1 regulations, meaning its a safe place to conduct professional-level science.
Only 590 members of the NYTM voted, adding up to a turnout of less than 6 percent.
Hidalgo joked that, in the past, New York’s oligarchs had the senate in their pocket, but now everyone does. “Mobile is a way of keeping the public informed wherever they are,” he said.
One key factor is embedded in the history of the Web and the many iterations of the Long War itself: The Internet has cultivated a public vested in its freedom. Each round of conflict draws in additional supporters, from hackers to the growing numbers of open-government activists and everyday users who believe, more and more, that the radical openness of the Web should set the pattern for everything. As the battlefield has become more vast – from laser printer code to transparency in global diplomacy – the Internet’s standing army continues to grow, and is spoiling for a fight.
Until we have clear, strong protection globally, I have few to no issues with using many of the tools at our disposal.