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Monthly Archives: November 2006
Neural Net
Sunday, November 26th, 2006
The revolution will be digitized
Sunday, November 26th, 2006
The digital revolution will not be televised but it is already digitized. It is a struggle over the public commons and personal privacy.
Intellectual property laws can have two functions: to grant special economic favors to a minority, or to grant incentives to develop works for the public commons. For five hundred years the west has [...]
Not so SWIFT
Thursday, November 16th, 2006
While I am happy to have presumably side stepped NSA wiretapping, I am amazed how last century are intercontinental wire transfers (and by last century I mean of course paleolithic). I actually write in a single form field the following (details obfuscated to protect the guilty):
Wire to: National Federal Credit Union
Fort George G. Meade MD, [...]
Ortega and Gates
Friday, November 10th, 2006
1963 Jose Daniel Ortega Saavedra joins the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN)
1967 Robert Michael Gates becomes officer in the US Air Force
1967 Ortega becomes a leader in the FSLN and is arrested for bank robbery
1969 Gates joins the CIA as an intelligence analyst
1974 Ortega is released from prison and visits Cuba
1974 Gates leaves the CIA [...]