Soliders in Iraq lack many of the most basic amenities, including Internet access, because there are only 6 to 12 computers for every 1,000 troops. So enterprising soliders have set up their own “Hajjinets,” troop-owned ISPs on just about every base in the country.
The Defense Department has tightened policies on the use of wireless local-area networks (WLANs), in a memo released earlier this month, which requires beefed up encryption and security since the last DOD wireless policy memo was released in April 2004.
Microsoft is warning users of malicious software that could be used to attack Windows systems that lack the company's latest security updates.
“A secret program that allowed U.S. officials to examine hundreds of thousands of private banking records from around the world in search of terrorist ties has been “absolutely essential” to protecting the country from further attacks, Vice President Cheney said yesterday.”
The White House is nearing an agreement with Congress on legislation that would write President Bush's warrantless surveillance program into law.
When I was in high school, I read this book called Ender's Game, by a man named Orson Scott Card. The book is about a strategic prodigy named Ender who is the only hope for saving humanity from an alien invasion. It was a great book.
In the bookd Ender's brother and sister, Peter and Valentine, are just as bright
as he. Peter convinces Valentine to collaborate in his grand scheme
of controlling the planet Earth. They start by creating a huge following on the Internet.
I think that the comment system created by Kevin Rose and the Revision 3 team is going to be copied enough to make it an unofficial standard. The one thing that is very powerful about digg is that it harnesses the power of the collective masses participating. Some topics that are supercharged with emotion moving hundreds of commenters on digg into action. The site becomes like a loaded gun.
Perhaps it won't be digg that starts catapults the current online revolution but it will almost definitely be something very similar.