Via Scoop.it – Internet of the absurd A century ago, one of the world’s first hackers used Morse code insults to disrupt a public demo of Marconi’s wireless telegraph. Nevil Maskelyne – doing it for the lulzVia www.newscientist.com
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Via Scoop.it – Demand TransformationThere is only one valid definition of a business purpose: to create a customer. A very good article that addresses some core problems in corporate governance. It identifies several legal changes that coul rectify them and get corporations back to creating real value.Via www.forbes.com
Via Scoop.it – Demand Transformation Those wanting the Army Private imprisoned are afraid to condemn the virtually identical acts of Daniel Ellsberg… Here is what Ellen Knickmeyer, the Baghdad Bureau Chief for The Washington Post during the Iraq War, documented about the Iraq War logs Manning is accused of releasing: Thanks to WikiLeaks, though, I now know the…
Via Scoop.it – Demand TransformationA paper from the New England Complex Systems Institute claims that they have found evidence that traders executed a “bear raid” on Citigroup in 2007, precipitating the financial collapse. “Bear raids” have been considered a risk to markets since the Great Depression, and a financial regulation called the “uptick rule” was instituted in 1938 to…
Via Scoop.it – Demand Transformation The mysteriously funded centrist group is winning ballot access… The dingbats behind “Americans Elect,” a shadowy centrist third-party effort to get an Internet petition onto actual presidential ballots, refuse to reveal who’s funding their efforts, because their donors are very worried that someone might call them dingbats.Via www.salon.com
Via Scoop.it – Demand TransformationRepublicans censor Democracy. Moments later, someone at C-SPAN took to Twitter and explained: “C-SPAN has no control over the U.S. House TV cameras – the Speaker of the House does.” It’s for reasons just like this, one might infer, that Boehner told C-SPAN back in February it would not be allowed control its own…