Generated by All in One SEO v5.0.0.1, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # Cognizant Transmutation Internet Bandwidth Development: Composting the Internet for over Two Decades ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://www.ibd.com/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Posts - [Upcoming Mini-tutorial at BigDataCamp: How to Build a Hadoop Cluster from Scratch in 20 Minutes by CTO of Infochimps](https://www.ibd.com/scalable-deployment/1341/) - Flip Kromer (@mrflip), CTO of Infochimps will give a an overview and tutorial on using the latest version of Ironfan (which until today was called cluster_chef) at the BigDataCamp unconference put on by Dave Nielsen just before O'Reilly's Strata Conference Feb 27 from 5:30pm to 10pm We've been using cluster_chef at Runa as the basis of our chef management for our - [The coming medical revolution. We need HYPERINNOVATION to fix Health Care Crisis](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/the-coming-medical-revolution-we-need-hyperinnovation-to-fix-health-care-crisis/) - Via Scoop.it - Creating the FutureTechnology has the potential to transform our concept of sickness. There’s nothing in the 2,000-plus page [Healthcare] bill that gets into this kind of hyper innovative individual medicine, biosensor leveraging, genome and all these sorts of things – it doesn’t really show up. But it is a great - [I tried to watch Game of Thrones and this is what happened - The Oatmeal](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/i-tried-to-watch-game-of-thrones-and-this-is-what-happened-the-oatmeal/) - Via Scoop.it - Internet of the absurdWhat happens when The Oatmeal tries to pay to download Game of Thrones.Via theoatmeal.com - [What Austerity Hath Wrought (More Austerity and Complete Control by Oligarchs)](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/what-austerity-hath-wrought-more-austerity-and-complete-control-by-oligarchs/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand TransformationWhat's the main impediment right now to jobs, jobs, jobs?Via www.theatlantic.com - [Rootstrikers: Organization to Clean Up Politics](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/rootstrikers-organization-to-clean-up-politics/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand TransformationHOW DO WE CLEAN UP POLITICS? 1. Provide that public elections are publicly funded; 2. Limit, and make transparent, independent political expenditures, and; 3. Reaffirm that when the Declaration of Independence spoke of entities “endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,” it was speaking of natural persons only.Via rootstrikers.org - [Making Solar Power Competitive with Coal - Technology Review](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/making-solar-power-competitive-with-coal-technology-review/) - Via Scoop.it - Creating the FutureA study identifies early-stage technologies that could be combined to cut the cost of solar panels in half.Via www.technologyreview.com - [Gigabit Internet for $70: the unlikely success of California's Sonic.net WHY NOWHERE ELSE? Hint: Oligopoly](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/gigabit-internet-for-70-the-unlikely-success-of-californias-sonic-net-why-nowhere-else-hint-oligopoly/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand TransformationThey offer each house up to one gigabit per second in bandwidth, making this one of the fastest streets in America. For only $69.95/month (100MBps for $39.95, both include phone service. ... Wondering "why can't somebody else do this?" You're asking the right question. But you may not like the answer.Via - [Getting My Hands into Robotics](https://www.ibd.com/howto/getting-my-hands-into-robotics/) - I've always loved software that can effect the "real world" and robotics does that in a great way. I figured it was time to dip my toe in the realm, so for the Holidays I decided I wanted to build a robot. But I really didn't want to have to do toooo much C / - [Self-Driving Cars: Biggest Societal Change Since... Cars](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/self-driving-cars-biggest-societal-change-since-cars/) - New Scientist is having a contest with the prize being a trip of a lifetime to the Arctic Circle and the bottom of the North Sea. I discovered after I wrote my entry that they only wanted less than 100 words. So here is what I originally wrote before I had to truncate it to something - [Install Wine on Mac Mountain Lion with Homebrew](https://www.ibd.com/howto/install-wine-on-mac-mountain-lion-with-homebrew/) - It was nice to see that I could brew install wine Until it failed trying to install libicns: ==> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/libicns/0.8.1 ==> make install _WritePNGImage in icns2png.o ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture i386 clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation) make[1]: *** [icns2png] Error 1 make: *** [install-recursive] - [Data Wants to be Free (as in Freedom)](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/data-wants-to-be-free-as-in-freedom/) - Tonight I was at the Sensored Meetup #10: Data! APIs! Standards!. Besides some great thought provoking talks, there was some great discussions afterward that got me thinking more clearly about some stuff that has been bubbling in my brain. Scott McNealy Was Right - Privacy: 'Get Over It' I really thought McNealy was wrong when he said way back - [Message to My Senator Boxer: Uphold your Oath of Office: Squash Shadow Secret Gov't](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/message-to-my-senator-boxer-uphold-your-oath-of-office-squash-shadow-secret-govt/) - Just a reminder you swore an oath of office to uphold the Constitution but you are not upholding it if you are not investigating and prosecuting those in all branches of the government that have been sidestepping the Constitution. The 13 years of Cheney/Obama administrations has set up a shadow secret government with its own - [CLI to Switch Amazon AWS Shell Environment Credentials](https://www.ibd.com/howto/cli-to-switch-amazon-aws-shell-environment-credentials/) - I work with many different AWS IAM Accounts and need to easily switch between these accounts. The good news is the AWS CLI tools now support a standard config file (~/.aws/config) that allows you to create profiles for multiple accounts in the one config file. You can select them when using the aws-cli with the - [First they came for the Whistleblowers, and I did not speak out](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/first-they-came-for-the-whistleblowers-and-i-did-not-speak-out/) - First they came for the Whistleblowers, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Whistleblower. Then they came for the Boing Boing Readers, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Boing Boing Reader. Then they came for the Linux Users, and I did not speak out— Because I - [First Post with Spacemacs and org2blog](https://www.ibd.com/blogging/first-post-with-spacemacs-and-org2blog/) - Haven't been blogging for quite a while. I recently got around to redeploying and updating my Wordpress blog to AWS Lightsail. It works so much better (and less expensive) now! The Dev team here at Omnyway wanted to start blogging on our company Wordpress blog about all the cool Clojure stuff we're open sourcing. But - [Blogging Once More](https://www.ibd.com/howto/first-git-blog-post/) - Time to start blogging, so of course, have to spend days tweaking up the blog and the blog process before writing anything! - [Accessing AppSync APIs that require Cognito Login outside of Amplify](https://www.ibd.com/scalable-deployment/aws/access-appsync-outside-amplify-2/) - Access your AppSync GraphQL APIs that require Cognito Logins with arbitrary tools outside of Amplify Apps - [Set up SSL/TLS for shadow-cljs https server](https://www.ibd.com/howto/set-up-ssl-keystore-for-shadow-cljs-2/) - Howto create TLS Server Certificate and use with clojurescript shadow-cljs development server - [Use Amplify Studio Figma Connector with Clojurescript](https://www.ibd.com/howto/amplify-studio-cljs-tutorial/) - How to use Clojurescript with Amplify React UI Components generated from Figma - [Connect Quicksight to RDS in a private VPC](https://www.ibd.com/howto/connect-quicksight-to-rds-in-a-vpc-2/) - How to setup a Quicksight VPC Connection to Aurora RDS in a private VPC - [Great Story on Shorting the Financial Apocalypse](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/10/) - An amazing article about those who saw the financial apocalypse coming and actually shorted the whole thing. The End by Michael Lewis Nov 11 2008 The era that defined Wall Street is finally, officially over. Michael Lewis, who chronicled its excess in Liar’s Poker, returns to his old haunt to figure out what went wrong. Photoillustration by: - [The Commoditization of Massive Data Analysis](https://www.ibd.com/scalable-deployment/the-commoditization-of-massive-data-analysis/) - Today's article in O'Reilly's Radar by Joseph Hellerstein, is a concise synopsis of the state-of-the-art large scale data analysis. It compares the Enterprise IT dominant Relational Database paradigm to the emerging (with a bullet!) MapReduce / Hadoop technologies. Professor Hellerstein, from UC Berkeley lives this stuff as a leading researcher on databases and distributed systems. - [Installing a git client on a shared host with no compiler](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/installing-a-git-client-on-a-shared-host-with-no-compiler/) - We are using Git to manage our deployments, but have some clients that use shared hosting services that don't have git installed (in particular Hostgator.com). Most of these shared hosting services do allow ssh shell access but don't have compilers available on the shared hosting account. So I couldn't just build git on the shared - [Where's MY Bailout?](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/wheres-my-bailout/) - Ok, so there are at least 100 jobs directly or indirectly dependent on my being kept financially viable. I am just TOO BIG TO FAIL. So its time that I get MY Bailout from the government. I don't need too much, a simple $1M will do for now. That's about the same ratio as the - [National Shame: Swaths of Non-Rural US without Broadband; Time for Re-Divestiture](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/national-shame-swaths-of-non-rural-us-without-broadband-time-for-re-divestiture/) - I live in Saratoga, CA, part of "High Tech" Silicon Valley. And my neighborhood STILL does NOT have ANY broadband services. None! (I don't count unreliable wireless with less than 1Mbps for more than $100/month a viable consumer broadband offering). AT&T and Comcast are the "franchised" service providers (I.E. monopolies) for the area and they - [Deploying RabbitMQ and Stomp on Ubuntu](https://www.ibd.com/runa/deploying-rabbitmq-and-stomp-on-ubuntu/) - Install rabbitmq via synaptic Make sure that the erlang package is installed Add a repository from the rabbitmq site Set up Repository via the Synaptic GUI tool (http://www.rabbitmq.com/debian/) Set up Repository via command line Ubuntu Documentation for Managing Repositories via the Command Line How to use the RabbitMQ Debian repository and available RabbitMQ Debian packages - [Sierra Wireless USB881 3G Modem WAN on WRTSL54GS via OpenWrt Kamikaze](https://www.ibd.com/howto/sierra-wireless-usb881-3g-modem-wan-on-wrtsl54gs-via-openwrt-kamikaze/) - As noted in a previous post National Shame: Swaths of Non-Rural US without Broadband; Time for Re-Divestiture, there is no Cable Modem service or DSL in my neighborhood. Up until a few months ago, I did have a pretty nice point to point Dual Raido Full Duplex 802.11n connection that could do about 12Mbps symetrical. - [Upstart Documentation Secret Hiding Place](https://www.ibd.com/scalable-deployment/documentation-on-upstart/) - To quote the Upstart home page: is an event-based replacement for the /sbin/init daemon which handles starting of tasks and services duringboot, stopping them during shutdown and supervising them while the system is running. One would think that the best place to find the current documentation on Upstart would be its home page and/or the Upstart - [Reseting the Opscode Chef Server Validation key/pem](https://www.ibd.com/howto/reseting-the-opscode-chef-server-validation-keypem/) - In upgrading from my own custom hacked pre-0.8.x Chef server/clients to the official new and shiny 0.8.2 release, I wanted to make everything vanilla. One issue was somewhere along the line I set the validation_client_name to "validator". The vanilla setting is "chef-validator". To do this I had to get rid of the "validator" and "chef-validator" - [Modyfying Jets3t S3 GUI tool to work with Walrus (Eucalyptus S3)](https://www.ibd.com/howto/getting-the-jet3t-s3-gui-tool-to-work-with-walrus-eucalyptus-s3/) - Jets3t (pronounced "jet-set") is a free, open-source Java toolkit and application suite for the Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon CloudFront content delivery network. For some reason almost all the standard tools for accessing S3 will not easily work with the Eucalyptus equivalent to S3 called Walrus. I am use to using the - [Deploy Wordpress to Amazon EC2 Micro Instance with Opscode Chef](https://www.ibd.com/howto/deploy-wordpress-to-amazon-ec2-micro-instance-with-opscode-chef/) - Updates September 9, 2011 Included the latest Chef Knife ec2 server create argument that sets the EBS Volume to not be deleted on the termination of the EC2 Instance Intro Up until recently a friend lent me a Virtual Machine in he Cloud for my Blog. I didn't have to do anything to manage it. - [Your Mac Won't Reboot when Installing Mac OS X Lion - Reset Your PRAM](https://www.ibd.com/howto/your-mac-wont-reboot-when-installing-mac-os-x-lion-reset-your-pram/) - Overseeing the Mac OS X Lion upgrade of all the Macs at Work, I've seen the Lion installs generally be the easiest OS X Upgrade ever. But I wasted almost two days upgrading one of our Mac Pros. We have several Mac Pros with the same configuration, 2008 Vintage Dual Quad Core's with Software RAID - [Access Web Servers on EC2 Private Addresses with Firefox FoxyProxy & Google Chrome SwitchySharp](https://www.ibd.com/howto/access-web-servers-on-ec2-private-addresses-with-firefox-foxyproxy-google-chrome-switchysharp/) - There are sometimes web ui services on EC2 instances that are only accessible via the AWS private IP addresses. The one I run into most are the WebUI of HBase and Hadoop. There are probably many others. Running a Socks Proxy Tunnel to an EC2 server On your local system you will need to run an - [Totally Ignorant Article By Michael Lind on "Who's Afraid of the AT&T Merger"](https://www.ibd.com/telecom/totally-ignorant-article-by-michael-lind-on-whos-afraid-of-the-att-merger/) - Michael Lind who I thought would know better keeps writing these articles that show he's totally clueless about modern technology and how it interacts with business and society. His latest blunder is an article in Salon: Who's afraid of the AT&T merger? American antitrust law is a relic of 19th century agrarian populism I can - [Experience installing Hbase 0.20.0 Cluster on Ubuntu 9.04 and EC2](https://www.ibd.com/howto/experience-installing-hbase-0-20-0-cluster-on-ubuntu-9-04-and-ec2/) - NOTE (Sep 7 2009): Updated info on need to use Amazon Private DNS Names and clarified the need for the masters, slaves and regionservers files. Also updated to use HBase 0.20.0 Release Candidate 3 Introduction As someone who has "skipped" Java and wants to learn as little as possible about it, and as one who - [Nice jruby installation cookbook (Opscode)](https://www.ibd.com/sysadmin/nice-jruby-installation-cookbook-opscode/) - There are a lot of good example Opscode cookbooks out there. Unfortunately they can be hard to find. People are not submitting them to the Opscode Cookbook repository. Its still hard to untangle your own cookbooks into something that can be put in a sharable format I guess. Right now, the most productive way to - [I have a bad feeling about this (Star Wars meets the RIAA/MPAA)](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/i-have-a-bad-feeling-about-this-star-wars-meets-the-riaampaa/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand TransformationStar Wars meets the RIAA, the MPAA, Intellectual Ventures, and everyone else scheming to enthral the people with digital “rights” management and criminal prosecution of “file sharing.”Via raganwald.posterous.com - [The Real Goal Of Regulating Buffer Copies? So Hollywood Can Put A Tollbooth On Innovation](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/the-real-goal-of-regulating-buffer-copies-so-hollywood-can-put-a-tollbooth-on-innovation/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand TransformationOne jaw-dropping leak is that that the treaty contemplates requiring licenses for ephemeral copies made in a computer's buffer. That means that the buffers in your machine could need a separate, negotiated license for every playback of copyrighted works, and buffer designs that the entertainment industry doesn't like -- core technical - [MoNETA: A Mind Made from Memristors - IEEE Spectrum](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/moneta-a-mind-made-from-memristors-ieee-spectrum/) - Via Scoop.it - Creating the Future DARPA's new memristor-based approach to AI consists of a chip that mimics how neurons process information... MoNETA will be a general-purpose mammalian-type intelligence, an artificial, generic creature known as an animat. With the DARPA hardware, we think we will be able to fit this level of intelligence into - [Lessig: The tyranny of tiny minds and big money: Time to rout the Cancer of Washington DC Insiders](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/lessig-the-tyranny-of-tiny-minds-and-big-money-time-to-rout-the-cancer-of-washington-dc-insiders/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation After three years, it's time for Obama to deliver on his promise to curb money in politics... The corruption of this government is a cancer. And you don’t launch an attack on cancer by prescribing good eating and exercise. Nor can you make change believable by pushing for reforms - [JAIL THE SCOUNDRELS: Lieberman, Cantor defend Capitol Hill’s inside traders](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/jail-the-scoundrels-lieberman-cantor-defend-capitol-hills-inside-traders/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand TransformationWall Street's favorites resist the effort to ban profiteering on non-public information... This is not just insider trading, but another form of bribery. US Politicians of both parties are corrupt to the core. They should be perp walked to jail now. Unfotunately they still control the courts, police and army. - [My Daily Lie - The Oatmeal Contest!](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/my-daily-lie-the-oatmeal-contest/) - Via Scoop.it - Creating the FutureMake your own Oatmeal "My Daily Lie" and WIN!Via theoatmeal.com - [Legislators Totally Cool With Required Drug Testing Unless It Applies To Them - The Consumerist](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/legislators-totally-cool-with-required-drug-testing-unless-it-applies-to-them-the-consumerist/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand TransformationOne way to get a politician to withdraw a bill requiring drug-testing for welfare applicants? Just tell him lawmakers also have to get tested, and see how fast he boomerangs. Rep.Via consumerist.com - [Sneaking 3 Horrible Wireless Ideas into One Bill | Public Knowledge](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/sneaking-3-horrible-wireless-ideas-into-one-bill-public-knowledge/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand TransformationHere in Washington, a classic way to get a bad policy passed is to attach it to the back of some unrelated “must pass” piece of legislation.Via www.publicknowledge.org - [When a WikiLeaks lawyer runs into Eric Holder and confronts him with his hypocracy](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/when-a-wikileaks-lawyer-runs-into-eric-holder-and-confronts-him-with-his-hypocracy/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation During a chance encounter at Sundance, I pressed the attorney general about his plans for Assange -- and his legacy...Via www.salon.com - [DHS IS A BUNCH OF IDIOTS! US bars friends over Twitter joke](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/dhs-is-a-bunch-of-idiots-us-bars-friends-over-twitter-joke/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand TransformationTWO pals banned from the US after cops pick up tweet gag about ‘destroying America’... Anyone in DHS who had a hand in this plus their supervisors should be FIRED IMMEIDATELY. This just shows how out of touch with reality the DHS is. Its time to shut them down - [U.S. Copyright Czar Cozied Up to Content Industry, E-Mails Show](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/u-s-copyright-czar-cozied-up-to-content-industry-e-mails-show/) - Via Scoop.it - Creating the FutureTop-ranking Obama administration officials, including the U.S. copyright czar, played an active role in secret negotiations between Hollywood, the recording industry and ISPs to disrupt internet access for users suspected of violating copyright law, according to internal White House e-mails.Via www.wired.com - [5 Questions: Rando on resetting the 'aging clock,' cell by cell](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/5-questions-rando-on-resetting-the-aging-clock-cell-by-cell/) - Via Scoop.it - Creating the Future Advances in the study of stem cells have fueled hopes that someday, via regenerative medicine, doctors could restore aging people’s hearts, livers, brains and other organs and tissues to a more youthful state.Via www.physorg.com - [SARTRE project completes first successful on-road demo of multiple vehicle platooning](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/sartre-project-completes-first-successful-on-road-demo-of-multiple-vehicle-platooning/) - Via Scoop.it - Creating the FutureThe Safe Road Trains for the Environment project completed the first successful test of a multiple vehicle platoon. The test fleet included a lead truck followed by three cars driven entirely autonomously at speeds of up to 90 km/h (56 mph), with no more than a 6-meter (20-foot) gap - [2012 is the time for Gene Therapy to Start to get Disruptive](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/2012-is-the-time-for-gene-therapy-to-start-to-get-disruptive/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand TransformationChristensen's research suggests there may be impediments to this happening, based on what he calls the “Innovator's Dilemma,” which is best described by the following question: “How [can] executives…simultaneously do what is right for the near-term health of their established businesses, while focusing adequate resources on the disruptive technologies that ultimately - [Clinical trials for dendritic cell vaccine designed to both eradicate cancer cells and prevent disease relapse](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/clinical-trials-for-dendritic-cell-vaccine-designed-to-both-eradicate-cancer-cells-and-prevent-disease-relapse/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand TransformationThe Center for Immunotherapy at Roswell Park Cancer Institute has launched a phase I clinical research study of a dendritic cell vaccine designed to both eradicate cancer cells and prevent disease relapse. The new cell vaccine will be manufactured in the Institute’s new Therapeutic Cell Production Facility using a unique - [Brown Fat Burns Ordinary Fat, Study Finds](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/brown-fat-burns-ordinary-fat-study-finds/) - Via Scoop.it - Creating the Future In separate studies, researchers have determined that in cold conditions, people’s calorie-gobbling brown fat uses ordinary fat as fuel — and that exercise may convert ordinary fat to brown fat.Via www.nytimes.com - [Technologist response to The President's challenge to Technologists](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/technologist-response-to-the-presidents-challenge-to-technologists/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation Take the truck, the boat, the helicopter, that we've sent you. Don't wait for the time machine, because we're never going to invent something that returns you to 1965 when copying was hard and you could treat the customer's convenience with contempt.Via radar.oreilly.com - [Is marijuana kosher? Cannabis Chassidis: free the weed.](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/is-marijuana-kosher-cannabis-chassidis-free-the-weed/) - Via Scoop.it - Internet of the absurdThe book Cannabis Chasidis: The Ancient and Emerging Torah of Drugs is an insightful, if puzzling, exploration of what Jewish sources think about drugs and chemical experimentation. The author, Yoseph Leib, hails from a traditional, observant Jewish background--but the wisdom given over in Cannabis Chasidis is anything but traditional. - [CPU Startup Combines CPU+DRAM into a hot multi-core mini-beast](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/cpu-startup-combines-cpudram-into-a-hot-multi-core-mini-beast/) - Via Scoop.it - Creating the Future The CPU design firm Venray Technology announced a new product design this week that it claims can deliver enormous performance benefits by combining CPU and DRAM on to a single piece of silicon.Via hothardware.com - [Nano-scale terahertz antenna created, hand-held tricorders coming soon?](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/nano-scale-terahertz-antenna-created-hand-held-tricorders-coming-soon/) - Via Scoop.it - Creating the Future Researchers have created a hand-held nano-scale T-ray antenna that can detect drugs, bombs, and even cancerous tumors.Via www.extremetech.com - [Dodd accused of “bribery” over SOPA remarks (Its time for arrests)](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/dodd-accused-of-bribery-over-sopa-remarks-its-time-for-arrests/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation Hollywood's top lobbyist warns Democrats that his industry will cut off the money flow if they don't get in line... Its time to see Dodd and all CEOs of MPAA/RIAA companies and all politicians who accepted bribes from the do the perp walk to jail.Via www.salon.com - [US killer spy drone controls switch to Linux (finally)](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/us-killer-spy-drone-controls-switch-to-linux-finally/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation"The control of US military spy drones appears to have shifted from Windows to Linux following an embarrassing malware infection." I still can't believe there is Windows in any mission critical application, especially Military. Glad to see that the US Military is finally seeing that light. Now they need to - [Two lessons from the Megaupload seizure](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/two-lessons-from-the-megaupload-seizure/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation Less than 24 hours after the SOPA victory, the Government seizes one of the world's largest websites with no trial... The U.S. really is a society that simply no longer believes in due process: once the defining feature of American freedom that is now scorned as some sort of - [Where the funny piracy numbers used to justify SOPA/PIPA spring from](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/where-the-funny-piracy-numbers-used-to-justify-sopapipa-spring-from/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand TransformationArs Technica alum Julian Sanchez has a timely redux of the research he did on how the made-up piracy numbers quoted during debates about SOPA and PIPA come from, and how little relation they bear to reality. It seems like every discussion of SOPA/PIPA includes a phrase like "Everyone agrees that - [Clay Shirky: Why SOPA is a bad idea](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/clay-shirky-why-sopa-is-a-bad-idea/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand TransformationWhat does a bill like PIPA/SOPA mean to our shareable world? At the TED offices, Clay Shirky delivers a proper manifesto -- a call to defend our freedom to create, discuss, link and share, rather than passively consume.Via www.ted.com - [Lawrence Lessig's SALT talk: the new federal government corruption](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/lawrence-lessigs-salt-talk-the-new-federal-government-corruption/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand TransformationLessig said the type of corruption rampant in the US Congress is not the old type of bribery, where congressional representatives had safes in their offices to hold the cash they received for voting in certain directions. That is now illegal and eliminated. This new type of corruption is more - [Photosynthesis Fuel Company Gets Funding, microbes to turn C02, H20 & Sunlight into cheap ethanol or disel](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/photosynthesis-fuel-company-gets-funding-microbes-to-turn-c02-h20-sunlight-into-cheap-ethanol-or-disel/) - Via Scoop.it - Creating the Future Joule Unlimited will build a production plant for turning sunlight and CO2 into liquid fuels. The company claims that its genetically engineered bacteria will eventually be able to produce ethanol for as little as $1.23 a gallon or diesel fuel for $1.19 a gallon, less than half the - [Chris Dodd’s paid SOPA crusading](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/chris-dodds-paid-sopa-crusading/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand TransformationIts time to publicly investigate, press charges and aggressively prosecute all Corporate Cronies and their puppetiers who are in conflict with their oaths of office to uphold the Constitution and have been acting with treason against the American People. Chris Dodd, 3-decade senator who vowed not to lobby, is now - [Copyright King: Why the "I Have a Dream" Speech Still Isn't Free | Motherboard](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/copyright-king-why-the-i-have-a-dream-speech-still-isnt-free-motherboard/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation Martin Luther King Jr.‘s “I Have a Dream” speech is considered one of the most recognizable collection of words in American history. It’s the rhetorical equivalent of a national treasure or a national park. Any unauthorized usage of the speech and a number of other speeches by King – - [Schneier on Security: Abolish the Department of Homeland Security](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/schneier-on-security-abolish-the-department-of-homeland-security/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand TransformationI have a love/hate relationship with the Cato Institute. Most of their analysis I strongly disagree with, but some of it I equally strongly agree with. Last September 11 -- the tenth anniversary of 9/11 -- Cato's David Rittgers published "Abolish the Department of Homeland Security":Via www.schneier.com - [Old Mice Made "Young"—May Lead to Anti-Aging Treatments](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/old-mice-made-young-may-lead-to-anti-aging-treatments/) - Via Scoop.it - Creating the Future Aging mice injected with stem cells lived three times as long, according to findings one scientist found initially unbelievable.Via news.nationalgeographic.com - [Anti Aging – Life Extension – Longevity | Personalized Life Extension Conference 2012](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/anti-aging-life-extension-longevity-personalized-life-extension-conference-2012/) - Via Scoop.it - Creating the FutureConference on Anti-Aging Strategies and Tactics San Francisco March 31 - April 1Via lifeextensionconference.com - [Thinking the Unthinkable About SOPA. Can Tech Stop the RIAA mobsters?](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/thinking-the-unthinkable-about-sopa-can-tech-stop-the-riaa-mobsters/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand TransformationWith key votes on SOPA -- the Stop Online Piracy Act -- likely to occur in the very near future, we now find ourselves forced into at least considering courses of action if SOPA (and companion legislation like PIPA -- the Protect IP Act) should pass and be signed into law. - [Onion got it right in 1/2001: Bush: 'Our Long National Nightmare Of Peace And Prosperity Is Finally Over'](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/onion-got-it-right-in-12001-bush-our-long-national-nightmare-of-peace-and-prosperity-is-finally-over/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation WASHINGTON, DC—Mere days from his inauguration, president-elect Bush vowed to undo the damage not done by the Clinton Administration. Bush swore to do "everything in [his] power" to undo the damage wrought by Clinton's two terms in office, including selling off the national parks to developers, going into massive - [U.S. report sees perils to America's tech future (US accelerating the race to 3rd World Status)](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/u-s-report-sees-perils-to-americas-tech-future-us-accelerating-the-race-to-3rd-world-status/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation The ability of the U.S. to compete globally is eroding, according to a federal report released Friday that described itself as a "call to arms." The report, which has a strong emphasis on technology, warns in stark terms that "some elements of the U.S. economy are losing their competitive - [Verizon's Deal With Big Cable Spells the Demise of the Telecom Act](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/verizons-deal-with-big-cable-spells-the-demise-of-the-telecom-act/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation We all remember the 1980s and its awesome fashion and music. While some may want to revisit those aspects of the past, I don't think anyone wants to return to the era of the cable and Ma Bell monopolies. The Verizon deal with CableCos directly contradicts the promise Congress - [It Is Time To Stop Pretending To Endorse The Copyright Monopoly | Techdirt](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/it-is-time-to-stop-pretending-to-endorse-the-copyright-monopoly-techdirt/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand TransformationThere is a saying in the political discussion in Sweden: "Anything you say before but in a political statement doesn't count." We've seen a lot of that practice in recent years with increasingly horrendous cultural monopoly...Via www.techdirt.com - [Joseph Stiglitz: “A Banking System is Supposed to Serve Society, Not the Other Way Around”](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/joseph-stiglitz-“a-banking-system-is-supposed-to-serve-society-not-the-other-way-around”/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation Re-examining the Great Depression, Joseph E. Stiglitz lays out the true economic challenge the U.S. faces now.Via www.vanityfair.com - [Potential Breakthru: Left and right, Congress resists the Stop Online Piracy Act](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/potential-breakthru-left-and-right-congress-resists-the-stop-online-piracy-act/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand TransformationFearing Web censorship, Rep.Darrell Issa tries the open-source alternative... But some, at least, are coming to the realization that open-source legislation might be the alternative to having legislation foisted upon them by lobbyists.Via www.salon.com - [The Fat Trap](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/the-fat-trap/) - Via Scoop.it - Creating the Future In the battle to lose weight, and keep it off, our bodies are fighting against us. This is a great article that reports on some of the more recent studies on loosing weight. Pretty much all the standard "solutions" are out of touch with the reality that the - [Your Connected Vehicle Is Arriving - Technology Review](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/your-connected-vehicle-is-arriving-technology-review/) - Via Scoop.it - Creating the Future As our cars become networked—to the Internet and to one another—new trends in technology and society will redefine transportation. What's certain: tomorrow's automobiles will provide experiences that go well beyond driving.Via www.technologyreview.com - [Paul Vixie: DNS Policy is Hop by Hop; DNS Security is End to End](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/paul-vixie-dns-policy-is-hop-by-hop-dns-security-is-end-to-end/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation The debate continues as to whether ISPs can effectively filter DNS results in order to protect brand and copyright holders from online infringement. What were debating now is just whether controlling DNS at the ISP level would work at all and whether the attempt to insert such controls would - [» Trials and Errors: Why Science Is Failing Us](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/»-trials-and-errors-why-science-is-failing-us/) - Via Scoop.it - Creating the Future Dead-end experiments. Useless drugs. Unneeded surgery. The truth is, our scientific stories about causation are shadowed by all sorts of mental shortcuts. Not really science, just the way our assumptions get in the way of the scientific process.Via www.wired.com - [Cory Doctorow: A Vocabulary for Speaking about the Future](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/cory-doctorow-a-vocabulary-for-speaking-about-the-future/) - Via Scoop.it - Creating the Future Science fiction writers and fans are prone to lauding the predictive value of the genre, prompting weird questions like ‘‘How can you write science fiction today? Aren’t you worried that real science will overtake your novel before it’s published?’’ This question has a drooling idiot of a half-brother, the - [Official: 4 Ohio fluid-injection #fracking wells cannot open in wake of quake - CNN.com](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/official-4-ohio-fluid-injection-fracking-wells-cannot-open-in-wake-of-quake-cnn-com/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation Ohio officials order that four fluid-injection wells be "indefinitely" prohibited from opening because of heightened seismic activity. Dr. Won-Young Kim, one of the Columbia University experts asked by the state to examine possible connections between fracking and seismic activity, said that a problem could arise if fluid moves through - [Scott Adam's Year Without Fear](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/scott-adams-year-without-fear/) - Via Scoop.it - Internet of the absurd In 2011, the Dilbert cartoonist decided that it was time to confront his aversion to physical risk. What might some audacity and adventure bring? A few minor injuries, he reports, but also the pleasure of overcoming anxiety and apprehension.Via online.wsj.com - [China Space Stations: Program Gains Momentum as US spirals into deeper self absorbtion & self destruction](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/china-space-stations-program-gains-momentum-as-us-spirals-into-deeper-self-absorbtion-self-destruction/) - Via Scoop.it - Creating the Future BEIJING -- China plans to launch space labs and manned ships and prepare to build space stations over the next five years, according to a plan released Thursday that shows the country's space program is gathering momentum.Via www.huffingtonpost.com - [Rival Greek Orthodox & Armenian priests in Bethlehem brawl with brooms. VIDEO!](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/rival-greek-orthodox-armenian-priests-in-bethlehem-brawl-with-brooms-video/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation A turf war prompts scuffles between groups of Greek Orthodox and Armenian Christian clerics armed with brooms in Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity.Via www.bbc.co.uk - [Dot-dash-diss: The gentleman hacker's 1903 lulz](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/dot-dash-diss-the-gentleman-hackers-1903-lulz/) - 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 - [The Dumbest Idea In The World: Maximizing Shareholder Value - Forbes](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/the-dumbest-idea-in-the-world-maximizing-shareholder-value-forbes/) - 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 - [The intellectual cowardice of Bradley Manning’s critics](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/the-intellectual-cowardice-of-bradley-manning’s-critics/) - 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, - [Complex Systems Institute claims "bear raid" market manipulation crashed the global economy - Boing Boing](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/complex-systems-institute-claims-bear-raid-market-manipulation-crashed-the-global-economy-boing-boing/) - 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" - [We can’t know who’s behind “Americans Elect,” because we might make fun of them](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/we-can’t-know-who’s-behind-“americans-elect”-because-we-might-make-fun-of-them/) - 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 - [Boehner’s office cuts off C-SPAN cameras as GOP takes verbal beating | The Raw Story](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/boehner’s-office-cuts-off-c-span-cameras-as-gop-takes-verbal-beating-the-raw-story/) - 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 - [China tops U.S, Japan to become top patent filer](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/china-tops-u-s-japan-to-become-top-patent-filer/) - Via Scoop.it - Creating the FutureHONG KONG (Reuters) - China became the world's top patent filer in 2011, surpassing the United States and Japan as it steps up innovation to improve its intellectual property rights track record. China is recapitulating the under-developed to developed country evolution but an order of magnitude faster than the - [NREL Scientists Report First Solar Cell Producing More Electrons In Photocurrent Than Solar Photons Entering Cell](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/nrel-scientists-report-first-solar-cell-producing-more-electrons-in-photocurrent-than-solar-photons-entering-cell/) - Via Scoop.it - Creating the FutureResearchers from the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have reported the first solar cell that produces a photocurrent that has an external quantum efficiency greater than 100 percent when photoexcited with photons from the high energy region of the solar spectrum.Via www.nrel.gov - [Christopher Hitchens and the protocol for public figure deaths](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/christopher-hitchens-and-the-protocol-for-public-figure-deaths/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand TransformationEtiquette-based prohibitions on speaking ill of the dead should apply to private individuals, not public figures...Via www.salon.com - [Life will suck if they censor the internet](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/life-will-suck-if-they-censor-the-internet/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation Get Your War On comic nails Hollywood. Why the world is doomed if Hollywood controlled the web (#SOPA passed).Via getyourcensoron.com - [Oil Corporations are the number one threat to the Earth and to Democracy](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/oil-corporations-are-the-number-one-threat-to-the-earth-and-to-democracy/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand TransformationEmails show how a Washington lobbyist enlisted Canadian officials to beat back U.S. carbon standards. Via www.salon.com - [Busted for Tweeting: Watching the rise of the Police State in the US](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/busted-for-tweeting-watching-the-rise-of-the-police-state-in-the-us/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation Police escalation in New York as my brother and 17 other people are arrested for observing an occupation... Via www.salon.com - [Eye Ball - A globe studded with cameras captures a panorama if you throw it in the air.](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/eye-ball-a-globe-studded-with-cameras-captures-a-panorama-if-you-throw-it-in-the-air/) - Via Scoop.it - Creating the FutureThis is a glimpse of the future and what we can do with cheap computing and 3D printers. Toss this foam-covered ball skyward, an accelerometer inside determines when it has reached its maximum height. At that moment, 36 cameras are triggered simultaneously, creating a mosaic that can be downloaded - [World’s first programmable quantum photonic chip](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/world’s-first-programmable-quantum-photonic-chip/) - Via Scoop.it - Creating the Future A team of engineering geniuses from the University of Bristol, England has developed the world's first re-programmable, multi-purpose quantum photonic computer chip that relies on quantum entanglement to perform calculations.Via www.extremetech.com - [Ultra-Orthodox Jews: The assault on Israeli women’s rights](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/ultra-orthodox-jews-the-assault-on-israeli-women’s-rights/) - Via Scoop.it - Creating the Future Ultra-Orthodox groups have grown more aggressive than ever in their efforts to keep women out of the public sphere...Via www.salon.com - [Information Diet A Case for Conscious Consumption](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/information-diet-a-case-for-conscious-consumption/) - Via Scoop.it - Creating the FutureA book by Clay Johnson... With this book, you’ll learn: * The relationship between power, authority, and information since the dawn of the first major information-technology boom * How people react to information consumption, according to cognitive science and neuroscience findings * How the new, information-abundant society is suffering - [Learning high-performance tasks with no conscious effort may soon be possible (w/ video)](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/learning-high-performance-tasks-with-no-conscious-effort-may-soon-be-possible-w-video/) - Via Scoop.it - Creating the FutureNew research published today in the journal Science suggests it may be possible to decoded fMRI neurofeedback to learn to play a piano, reduce mental stress or hit a curve ball with little or no conscious effort. It's the kind of thing seen in Hollywood's "Matrix" franchise.Via medicalxpress.com - [NASA clears SpaceX for trial run to space station](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/nasa-clears-spacex-for-trial-run-to-space-station/) - Via Scoop.it - Creating the FutureSpaceX, a private company, will make a trial cargo run to the International Space Station in February, a key step in a new U.S. To encourage commercial cargo runs, NASA has hired SpaceX and a second company, Virginia-based Orbital Sciences Corp. to fly cargo to the space station, a - [Indefinite military detention for U.S. citizens now in the hands of a secretive conference committee - Blog - OpenCongress](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/indefinite-military-detention-for-u-s-citizens-now-in-the-hands-of-a-secretive-conference-committee-blog-opencongress/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand TransformationWith the House having voted 406-17 to “close” portions of the meetings and avoid public scrutiny, members from both chambers and both parties are meeting in a secretive conference committee to work on reconciling the differences between the House and Senate versions of the bill. On the military detention provision, - [Don't be fooled by "Americans Elect" Astroturf "alternative" to Republicrats](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/dont-be-fooled-by-americans-elect-astroturf-alternative-to-republicrats/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation Just what Americans yearn for: A high-tech presidential ticket funded by secret Wall Street money... This is a brilliant play by the 1% to deflect political changed. If you want a cool organization to check out see http://unitedrepublic.orgVia www.salon.com - ['Visible Shape': Philip Glass, Lou Reed At Occupy Lincoln Center Captured In Artsy Short Film (VIDEO)](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/visible-shape-philip-glass-lou-reed-at-occupy-lincoln-center-captured-in-artsy-short-film-video/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation Philip Glass and Lou Reed occupied Lincoln Center last week, after a performance of Glass' opera, "Satyagraha," at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. "When righteousness withers away, and evil rules the land, we come into being, age after age, and take visible shape, and move, a man - [Power in Numbers: China Aims for High-Tech Primacy](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/power-in-numbers-china-aims-for-high-tech-primacy/) - Via Scoop.it - Creating the Future China’s booming economy and growing technological infrastructure may thrust it to the forefront of the next generation of computing, many American experts say. China is now the world’s second-largest venture capital market, growing to $7.6 billion from just $2.2 billion in 2005, while the American venture capital market - [Graphene spun into metre-long fibres : Nature News & Comment](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/graphene-spun-into-metre-long-fibres-nature-news-comment/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand TransformationNano-sized flakes of graphene oxide can be spun into graphene fibres several metres long, researchers in China have shown.Via www.nature.com - [Bernie Sanders Introduces OCCUPIED Constitutional Amendment To Ban Corporate Money In Politics](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/bernie-sanders-introduces-occupied-constitutional-amendment-to-ban-corporate-money-in-politics/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand TransformationLast month, Rep.Ted Deutch (D-FL) stood up for the 99 Percent by introducing the Outlawing Corporate Cash Undermining the Public Interest in our Elections and Democracy (OCCUPIED) Amendment, which would overturn the Citizens United decision, re-establishing the right of Congress and the states to regulate campaign finance laws... Today, Sen. - [Proposal: State lawmakers should be drug-tested  | ajc.com](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/proposal-state-lawmakers-should-be-drug-tested- -ajc-com/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand TransformationState Rep. Scott Holcomb, D-Atlanta, said he filed a bill Friday requiring all state lawmakers to be drug tested.Via www.ajc.com - [Whose army is it? (The 1% in their war against the 99%)](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/whose-army-is-it-the-1-in-their-war-against-the-99/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation The 99 percent has become dangerously removed from the military-industrial complex that controls our remote wars...Via www.salon.com - [US Gov't continues to be the protector of Rackets](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/us-govt-continues-to-be-the-protector-of-rackets/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation House Votes To Ban Synthetic Drugs That Mimic Pot... L:imit competition to Drug Barrans in the same way they protect the Record and Movie Industries. The US Government is corrupt with the Congress, the DEA and the Justice Department the leaders in corruptionVia www.salon.com - [Bringing the War Back Home: Domestic #Drones](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/bringing-the-war-back-home-domestic-drones/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation The domestic importation of this war on terror weapon merits much more scrutiny than it has thus far received... The holes eaten into the Fourth Amendment’s search and seizure protections by the Drug War and the War on Terror means there are few Constitutional limits on how this technology - [‘Occupy’ Protesters Listed As Domestic Terrorists](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/‘occupy’-protesters-listed-as-domestic-terrorists/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand TransformationOccupy London demonstrators have been listed as domestic terrorists by the City of London Police, who characterized them in the same context as Al-Qaeda, the Colombian FARC and Belarusian terrorists who bombed the Minsk underground. The US Department of Defense is now training its personnel that protest amounts to “low-level - [Rapamycin used to increase the lifespan of mice](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/rapamycin-used-to-increase-the-lifespan-of-mice/) - Via Scoop.it - Creating the FutureHere, we demonstrate that lifelong administration of rapamycin extends lifespan in female 129/Sv mice characterized by normal mean lifespan of 2 y. Rapamycin inhibited age-related weight gain, decreased aging rate, increased lifespan (especially in the last survivors) and delayed spontaneous cancer. 22.9% of rapamycin-treated mice survived the age of - [Giant Casimir Effect Predicted Inside Metamaterials - Technology Review](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/giant-casimir-effect-predicted-inside-metamaterials-technology-review/) - Via Scoop.it - Creating the Future Exotic materials should lead to new ways of observing and playing with one of the strangest effects in physics, say Chinese physicists... They say that in a particular kind of electromagnetic space called a Rindler space, the Casimir effect is huge. The essential idea here is that the - [Flying robots build structure](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/flying-robots-build-structure/) - Via Scoop.it - Creating the FutureFour autonomous quadcopter robots retrieve foam bricks and then a networked computer vision system directs their placement. The installation consists of more than 1,500 bricks and is a 1:100 model of what the architects Fabio Gramazio and Matthias Kohler call a "vertical village."Via boingboing.net - [WSU News Center - 3D printer used to make bone-like material](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/wsu-news-center-3d-printer-used-to-make-bone-like-material/) - Via Scoop.it - Creating the FuturePULLMAN, Wash. - It looks like bone. It feels like bone. For the most part, it acts like bone. And it came off an inkjet printer.Via wsutoday.wsu.edu - [Did fracking kill Dunkard Creek?](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/did-fracking-kill-dunkard-creek/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation After oil and gas extraction arrived in southwest Pennsylvania, a massive fill kill occurred. We need to have a "Mission to Renewable Energy" for the US. Via www.salon.com - [“Mic check, Mr. President.” Obama Heckled For silence on Police Brutality and Crony Connections to Banks](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/“mic-check-mr-president-”-obama-heckled-for-silence-on-police-brutality-and-crony-connections-to-banks/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation“Mic check, Mr. President.” “Over 4,000 peaceful protesters have been arrested while bankers continue to destroy the American economy. You must stop the assault on our 1st Amendment rights. Your silence sends a message that police brutality is acceptable. Banks got bailed out. We got sold out.” And Obama - [Progress against SOPA. Still more to do to stop the Destruction of the 'Net](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/progress-against-sopa-still-more-to-do-to-stop-the-destruction-of-the-net/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand TransformationI also wanted to take a minute and thank everyone who called or wrote their Congressperson to speak out against SOPA and PROTECT IP. As a result of people speaking up in the last few days, a lot has happened: - Republican Representative Darrell Issa and Democratic Representative Nancy Pelosi - [Facebook is gaslighting the web. We can fix it.](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/facebook-is-gaslighting-the-web-we-can-fix-it/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation"Facebook has moved from merely being a walled garden into openly attacking its users' ability and willingness to navigate the rest of the web. The evidence that this is true even for sites which embrace Facebook technologies is overwhelming, and the net result is that Facebook is gaslighting users into believing - [How OWS woke up our civil society](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/how-ows-woke-up-our-civil-society/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation The violent response from authorities will only solidify the peaceful movement... A year ago, no one imagined an Arab Spring, and no one imagined this American Fall — even the people who began planning for it this summer. We don’t know what’s coming next, and that’s the good news. - [UC Berkeley police give "Beat Poets" new meaning: poet laureate Robert Hass on his violent encounter - Boing Boing](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/uc-berkeley-police-give-beat-poets-new-meaning-poet-laureate-robert-hass-on-his-violent-encounter-boing-boing/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand TransformationOnce the cordon formed, the deputy sheriffs pointed their truncheons toward the crowd. It looked like the oldest of military maneuvers, a phalanx out of the Trojan War, but with billy clubs instead of spears. The students were wearing scarves for the first time that year, their cheeks rosy with - [Cedar-Sinai takes cancer sufferer off transplant list for taking the medical marijuana its doctor prescribed - Boing Boing](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/cedar-sinai-takes-cancer-sufferer-off-transplant-list-for-taking-the-medical-marijuana-its-doctor-prescribed-boing-boing/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand TransformationNorman B. Smith was diagnosed with inoperable liver cancer by his doctor at LA's Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, who prescribed medical marijuana. Now, Cedars-Sinai has removed Mr Smith from the list of liver-transplant candidates...because he tested positive for marijuana, which their own doctor prescribed. Hospital officials are insisting that Smith stop - [Occupy Lulz - Boing Boing](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/occupy-lulz-boing-boing/) - Via Scoop.it - Internet of the absurdTags: comedy, lol, LULZ, meme, occupy wall street, ows, photoshopVia boingboing.net - [If Clarence Thomas Was Not Justice Thomas He’d Likely be Behind Bars](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/if-clarence-thomas-was-not-justice-thomas-he’d-likely-be-behind-bars/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation Earl Ofari Hutchinson If Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was not Justice Thomas but an ordinary Thomas he’d be behind bars. A cursory checklist of Thomas’s financial manipulations, abuse, and duplicity, and outright illegality complete with the legal statues and codes that he’s violated confirm his made man - [SpaceX 1 visionary + 3 launchers + 1,500 employees = ?](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/spacex-1-visionary-3-launchers-1500-employees/) - Via Scoop.it - Creating the FutureAs advertised on the company’s Web site, a Falcon 9 launch costs an average of $57 million, which works out to less than $2,500 per pound to orbit. That’s significantly less than what other U.S. launch companies typically charge, and even the manufacturer of China’s low-cost Long March rocket - [The Icelandic Model of Handling Debt Crises: Make the Banks Fail and the Creditors Pay](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/the-icelandic-model-of-handling-debt-crises-make-the-banks-fail-and-the-creditors-pay/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation Iceland's reactions to its banking crisis offers lessons both for Greece and Occupy Wall Street protesters. Iceland, in 2009, did what Greece would like to do now: it let its banks fail, and told their creditors to take a hike. Two years on, Iceland’s economy is recovering, while - [America Edges to Brink of Armed Police Drones - Miller-McCune](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/america-edges-to-brink-of-armed-police-drones-miller-mccune/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand TransformationA county north of Houston made news in Europe at the end of October by taking delivery of a new “weaponizable” drone, a squat remote-controlled helicopter called a ShadowHawk that can fire Tasers or beanbags at people on the ground.Via www.miller-mccune.com - [Daily Kos: Confirmed: Police Executive Research Forum (PERF) coordinating Occupy raids](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/daily-kos-confirmed-police-executive-research-forum-perf-coordinating-occupy-raids/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand TransformationBut a little-known but influential private membership based organization has placed itself at the center of advising and coordinating the crackdown on the encampments. The Police Executive Research Forum, an international non-governmental organization with ties to law enforcement and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, has been coordinating conference calls with - [Which tech companies back SOPA? Microsoft, Apple, and 27 others](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/which-tech-companies-back-sopa-microsoft-apple-and-27-others/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation After writing a rather lengthy and somewhat firey post on the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) yesterday, I realized this morning that I didn't know Microsoft's position on the matter. ...Via thenextweb.com - [Maybe It's Time to Occupy the Police State - Forbes](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/maybe-its-time-to-occupy-the-police-state-forbes/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand TransformationI can’t see any legitimate basis for police action like what is shown here. Watch that first minute and think how we’d react if we saw it coming from some riot-control unit in China, or in Syria. The calm of the officer who walks up and in a leisurely way pepper-sprays - [Occupy Wall St – The Revolution Is Love : Occupy Love](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/occupy-wall-st-–-the-revolution-is-love-occupy-love/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation“Love is the felt experience of connection to another being. An economist says ‘more for you is less for me.’ But the lover knows that more of you is more for me too. If you love somebody their happiness is your happiness. Their pain is your pain. Your sense of self - [Narco Polo: Taliban’s Drug Policy Was More Humane Than US’s](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/narco-polo-taliban’s-drug-policy-was-more-humane-than-us’s/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand TransformationThe Taliban ruled Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001. Under its brutal rule there were public executions and amputations weekly. Music, television, dancing, and public laughter were banned.* (2, 3) Women could not go out in public unless they were completely covered with a burqa and escorted by a male relative. Women - [US govt says $1.92M P2P damage award totally fair](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/us-govt-says-1-92m-p2p-damage-award-totally-fair/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand TransformationAnother example that the Obama Adminstration, just like the Cheney/Bush Administration works for the 1% and is at War with the 99% of the US Citizens. The Department of Justice has stepped into the case of Jammie Thomas-Rasset, the first file-sharing defendant whose trial ended with a $1.92 million judgment - [Scientists create light from vacuum](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/scientists-create-light-from-vacuum/) - Via Scoop.it - Creating the Future (PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at Chalmers University of Technology have succeeded in creating light from vacuum – observing an effect first predicted over 40 years ago. The results will be published tomorrow (Wednesday) in the journal Nature.Via www.physorg.com - [Strange bedfellows: Nancy Pelosi, Ron Paul join SOPA opposition](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/strange-bedfellows-nancy-pelosi-ron-paul-join-sopa-opposition/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and presidential candidate Ron Paul (R-TX) don't agree on much, but both members of the House of Representatives have announced their opposition to the Stop Online Piracy Act.Via arstechnica.com - [Dorli Rainey, octagenarian pepper-sprayed by police at Occupy Seattle, on "the importance of activism" (video) - Boing Boing](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/dorli-rainey-octagenarian-pepper-sprayed-by-police-at-occupy-seattle-on-the-importance-of-activism-video-boing-boing/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand TransformationEighty-four-year-old activist Dorli Rainey tells Keith about her experience getting pepper-sprayed by the police during an Occupy Seattle demonstration and the need to take action and spread the word of the Occupy movement. "Now the FCC are trying to take away the free internet," she says, referencing SOPA. "I remember - [Why Simply Selling Our Airwaves Will Cost Us in the Long Run](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/why-simply-selling-our-airwaves-will-cost-us-in-the-long-run/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation Plans to sell off TV band spectrum could undermine the future of wireless innovation. Just another way the 1% steals from the 99% via their owned and operated political cronies in Congress and the White HouseVia www.technologyreview.com - [Wow: Intel unveils 1 teraflop chip with 50-plus cores](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/wow-intel-unveils-1-teraflop-chip-with-50-plus-cores/) - Via Scoop.it - Creating the FutureThen I saw Intel's latest -- a 1 teraflop chip, with more than 50 cores, that Intel unveiled today, running it on a test machine at the SC11 supercomputing conference in Seattle. "In 15 years that's what we've been able to do. That is stupendous. You're witnessing the 1 - [Atheist Group's New Florida Billboards About to Piss Off a Whole Bunch of Jesus Fans - Broward/Palm Beach News - The Daily Pulp](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/atheist-groups-new-florida-billboards-about-to-piss-off-a-whole-bunch-of-jesus-fans-browardpalm-beach-news-the-daily-pulp/) - Via Scoop.it - Internet of the absurd Do you know what Neptune, Jesus, Santa Claus, and Satan have in common?They're going to be alongside each other on...Via blogs.browardpalmbeach.com - [Exclusive Video: Inside Police Lines at the Occupy Wall Street Eviction](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/exclusive-video-inside-police-lines-at-the-occupy-wall-street-eviction/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation Amid this morning's crackdown on Zuccotti Park, I was one of the only reporters bearing witness.Via motherjones.com - [Petri dish to dinner plate, in-vitro meat coming soon](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/petri-dish-to-dinner-plate-in-vitro-meat-coming-soon/) - Via Scoop.it - Creating the Future LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists are cooking up new ways of satisfying the world's ever-growing hunger for meat.Cultured meat -- burgers or sausages grown in laboratory Petri dishes rather than made from...Via www.reuters.com - [State of Siege USA: Why Would They Target #Occupy Now?](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/state-of-siege-usa-why-would-they-target-occupy-now/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation Suddenly the Occupy movement is under siege everywhere. Why now? It could be nothing more than one heck of a coast-to-coast coincidence, at least theoretically speaking. Has all the fingerprints of the Stealth Republican Obama. He is even worse that Cheney/Bush on Civil Liberties. All his actions have enabled - [American Internet Censorship is Real and Happening -- Stop it!](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/american-internet-censorship-is-real-and-happening-stop-it/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation A bill that is very likely to pass will let government and corporations censor the internet, take down sites at the behest of corporations.Via americancensorship.org - [United Republic | Democracy is not for sale](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/united-republic-democracy-is-not-for-sale/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand TransformationUnited Republic is forging a bigger, bolder movement to end our current, corrupt way of financing politics in this country. Get Money Out will be their first campaign. And they have already forged an alliance with Lawrence Lessig's Rootstrikers. Countless other organizations, from the People for the American Way to the - [Occupy Healthcare](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/occupy-healthcare/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand TransformationHow can we, the community, have our moment to influence and impact healthcare? Or, as the Occupy Wall Street movement has shown, how can we, the community, rise up and demand more for “the 99%”? It has always been the right time to take on the issue of healthcare, but - [Why I quit the mainstream media](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/why-i-quit-the-mainstream-media/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation Journalism must break the chains of objectivity and report truth -- and the Occupy movement led me to do just that...Via www.salon.com - [Self-organized pituitary-like tissue from mouse ES cells](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/self-organized-pituitary-like-tissue-from-mouse-es-cells/) - Via Scoop.it - Creating the Future New work by Hidetaka Suga of the Division of Human Stem Cell Technology, Yoshiki Sasai, Group Director of the Laboratory for Organogenesis and Neurogenesis, and others has unlocked the most recent achievement in self-organized tissue...Via www.eurekalert.org - [OccupyNYC Livestream of Police State in action](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/occupynyc-livestream-of-police-state-in-action/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation OccupyNYC on Livestream. 24 hour news and information concerning Occupy Wall st. in Liberty Plaza, New York City. - Watch live streaming Internet TV. Broadcast your own live streaming videos, like OccupyNYC in Widescreen HD.Via www.livestream.com - [Vint Cerf: The government is going overboard in Internet copyright control | VentureBeat](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/vint-cerf-the-government-is-going-overboard-in-internet-copyright-control-venturebeat/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation "When Bob and I started writing the specs for the Internet in 1973..." Only a handful of people can start a sentence anything like that. When asked what he would tell the developer of the Next Big Thing, the technology that could replace the Internet, Cerf said, “Shoot the - [Spencer Bachus’ real sin isn’t just insider trading](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/spencer-bachus’-real-sin-isn’t-just-insider-trading/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand TransformationMuch worse: The powerful House Republican is Wall Street's field general in the fight against financial reform...Via www.salon.com - [Lauren Weinstein's Blog: The Coming Fascist Internet](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/lauren-weinsteins-blog-the-coming-fascist-internet/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand TransformationIn their efforts to control people and protect profits, governments and associated industries (often in league with powerful Internet Service Providers -- ISPs -- who in some respects are admittedly caught in the middle), seem willing to impose draconian, ultimately fascist censorship, identification, and other controls on the Internet and its - [Congress: Trading stock on inside information? Corruption hardwired into the sysytem](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/congress-trading-stock-on-inside-information-corruption-hardwired-into-the-sysytem/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation 60 Minutes on CBS News: Congress: Trading stock on inside information? While Congressman Bachus was publicly trying to keep the economy from cratering, he was privately betting that it would, buying option funds that would go up in value if the market went down. He would make a variety - [Occupy Wall Street takes a new direction: It's an “open-source” movement](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/occupy-wall-street-takes-a-new-direction-its-an-“open-source”-movement/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation“The occupation is incredibly important as a symbol, as an organizing platform and as a model,” said another active participant, Max Berger. “But ultimately the impact the movement will have is a result of organizing that takes place outside the park.” “The way it works is, right now we have - [House Judiciary Committee Refuses To Hear Wider Tech Industry Concerns About SOPA | Techdirt](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/house-judiciary-committee-refuses-to-hear-wider-tech-industry-concerns-about-sopa-techdirt/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation Ever since SOPA was introduced, we'd heard that the eventual House Judiciary Committee hearings on the bill would be an unfairly stacked deck. Despite such wide opposition to the bill, and the fact that this represents a massive change to the...Via www.techdirt.com - [Gene tweak creates supermouse – and prevents diabetes - life - 11 November 2011 - New Scientist](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/gene-tweak-creates-supermouse-–-and-prevents-diabetes-life-11-november-2011-new-scientist/) - Via Scoop.it - Creating the FutureKnocking out a gene in muscles allows mice to run twice as far – targeting the same gene in their fat cells prevents them developing type-2 diabetes...Via www.newscientist.com - [Hollywood's New War on Software Freedom and Internet Innovation](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/hollywoods-new-war-on-software-freedom-and-internet-innovation/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand TransformationIn this new bill, Hollywood has expanded its censorship ambitions. No longer content to just blacklist entries in the Domain Name System, this version targets software developers and distributors as well. It allows the Attorney General (doing Hollywood or trademark holders' bidding) to go after more or less anyone who - [U.S. takes the lead on behalf of continued use of cluster bombs](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/u-s-takes-the-lead-on-behalf-of-continued-use-of-cluster-bombs/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation After long refusing to join the convention banning these weapons, Obama now works to overturn it... More evidence that Obama is as bad or worse than Cheney/Bush in terms of war crimes and anti-civil libertiesVia www.salon.com - [Meet the new death dealers](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/meet-the-new-death-dealers/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand TransformationAs the Internet transforms the weapons trade, Beijing is becoming a massive player -- and we should be scared... Of course the US is still the #1 supplier of Death Tech to the World and has no moral standing to try to stop it.Via www.salon.com - [This is why an octopus is more awesome than your mom - The Oatmeal](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/this-is-why-an-octopus-is-more-awesome-than-your-mom-the-oatmeal/) - Via Scoop.it - Internet of the absurdComparing moms to an octopus would be like pitting an army of savages against one well-oiled gatling gun sitting atop a hill. The mothers would charge the hill, hurling rocks and sticks; they'd roar righteous, compassionate battle cries of warriors who believe they are fighting for the betterment of - [STOP SOPA, SAVE THE INTERNET - Boing Boing](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/stop-sopa-save-the-internet-boing-boing/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand TransformationThe MPAA, RIAA, Hollywood knows that they have been flying in CEOs of as many companies as possible, recruiting people to get petition signups at malls in California, and here's the big point-- they know they have gotten their message through to Congress -- the worst bill in Internet history, the - [NYT writer who investigated secret FBI probes loses fight to unseal information in FBI's secret probe against him](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/nyt-writer-who-investigated-secret-fbi-probes-loses-fight-to-unseal-information-in-fbis-secret-probe-against-him/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation"The FBI can shield its terrorism-investigation data from the prying eyes of New York Times investigative journalist Charlie Savage, a federal judge ruled. Savage repeatedly sought FBI data through the Freedom of Information Act for a series of articles exposing how federal authorities vigorously probed thousands of people without reasonable suspicion."Via - [Court Rules Against WikiLeakers: Twitter Data Isn't Secret, Government Orders Are - Forbes](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/court-rules-against-wikileakers-twitter-data-isnt-secret-government-orders-are-forbes/) - Via Scoop.it - Creating the Future A U.S.District Court dealt two blows Thursday to the three WikiLeaks associates fighting a ruling that gives a grand jury access to their private Twitter data: One decision declaring that their private information on Twitter should be revealed, and...Via www.forbes.com - [Symphony of Science](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/symphony-of-science/) - Via Scoop.it - Creating the FutureThe Symphony of Science is a musical project of John D Boswell, designed to deliver scientific knowledge and philosophy in musical form. The project owes its existence in large measure to the classic PBS Series Cosmos, by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan, and Steve Soter, as well as all the other - [Computer more accurate than human doctor at breast cancer diagnosis | ExtremeTech](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/computer-more-accurate-than-human-doctor-at-breast-cancer-diagnosis-extremetech/) - Via Scoop.it - Creating the Future Computer scientists and pathologists at Stanford University now have a computer system that can look a tissue sample and diagnose breast cancer more accurately than a human doctor.Via www.extremetech.com - [Researchers Create a Pituitary Gland from Scratch - Technology Review](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/researchers-create-a-pituitary-gland-from-scratch-technology-review/) - Via Scoop.it - Creating the Future The results could be an initial step toward generating viable, transplantable human organs.Via www.technologyreview.com - [Yes, it is Wall Street’s fault](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/yes-it-is-wall-street’s-fault/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation Bloomberg joins Republicans in claiming Congress "forced" banks to give bad loans. “Bank A (let’s say it’s Goldman, Sachs) lends criminal enterprise B (let’s say it’s Countrywide) a billion dollars. Countrywide then … creates a billion dollars of shoddy home loans, committing any and all kinds of fraud along - [Political Fact Checking That Doesn’t Amplify the Lie - Miller-McCune](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/political-fact-checking-that-doesn’t-amplify-the-lie-miller-mccune/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation The next generation of political fact checking will offer humor and quicker turnarounds without further propagating the underlying deception.Via www.miller-mccune.com - [Crosby & Nash Perform at Occupy Wall Street | Rolling Stone](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/crosby-nash-perform-at-occupy-wall-street-rolling-stone/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation I don't think we have performed without microphones for a long time, Graham Nash said with a laugh this afternoon as a van carried him and David Cro...Via www.rollingstone.com - [Unlicensed Wireless vs. Licensed Spectrum: Evidence from Market Adoption | Berkman Center](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/unlicensed-wireless-vs-licensed-spectrum-evidence-from-market-adoption-berkman-center/) - Via Scoop.it - Creating the FutureThe evidence from the most dynamic and critical markets in wireless communications suggests that unlicensed wireless technologies have been underrated in the regulatory calculus. Future spectrum policy debates, in particular those surrounding TV band auctions and reallocation of federal spectrum, should secure an adequate development path for unlicensed technologies, devices, - [Guess How Much Money Angry Customers Moved Out Of Banks In Support Of Bank Transfer Day](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/guess-how-much-money-angry-customers-moved-out-of-banks-in-support-of-bank-transfer-day/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation Not $1, $2 or even $3 billion... According to ABC News, In October alone Credit Unions around the country gained 650,000 new customers and $4.5 billion was moved out of major banks.Via www.businessinsider.com - [Ben from Ben and Jerry's serves ice-cream to OWSers - Boing Boing](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/ben-from-ben-and-jerrys-serves-ice-cream-to-owsers-boing-boing/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand TransformationOccupy Wall Street: Day 52, Zuccotti Park, Ben and Jerry's, scooped by the real, actual BenVia boingboing.net - [We need a Corporate Pledge of Allegiance](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/we-need-a-corporate-pledge-of-allegiance/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation If Romney and the GOP are going to insist corporations are people, companies should start proving their patriotism...Via www.salon.com - [Our militarized police forces](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/our-militarized-police-forces/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation The wars on drugs and terror have given police departments a lot of deadly toys and dangerous attitudes...Via www.salon.com - [Occupiers plan epic New York to Washington march](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/occupiers-plan-epic-new-york-to-washington-march/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand TransformationTheir target: The congressional supercommittee and the Bush tax cuts for the rich...Via www.salon.com - [Why Bank Transfer Day is only the beginning](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/why-bank-transfer-day-is-only-the-beginning/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation If the big banks aren't scared yet at the power of social-media grass-roots activism, they're not paying attention... 650,000 consumers across the nation have joined credit unions in the past four weeks, that's more than all of 2010 combined.Via www.salon.com - [“The Daily Show” takes on Ann Coulter’s race-baiting logic](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/“the-daily-show”-takes-on-ann-coulter’s-race-baiting-logic/) - Via Scoop.it - Internet of the absurd Jon Stewart and co.extend one of the pundit's controversial statements to its logical extreme VIDEO...Via www.salon.com - [China Succeeds in First Space Docking by 2 Spaceships | Shenzhou 8 & Tiangong 1 | China & Space Station, Human Spaceflight | Space.com](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/china-succeeds-in-first-space-docking-by-2-spaceships-shenzhou-8-tiangong-1-china-space-station-human-spaceflight-space-com/) - Via Scoop.it - Creating the Future China's unmanned Shenzhou 8 spacecraft successfully docked with the prototype space lab module Tiangong 1 Wednesday (Nov. 2). The orbital meet-up is a key step in China's plan to build a space station in orbit by 2020. "We can never count on other countries to sell their mature - [Eradicating Aging Cells Could Prevent Disease - Technology Review](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/eradicating-aging-cells-could-prevent-disease-technology-review/) - Via Scoop.it - Creating the Future"We've shown there is a causal link between these senescent cells and age-related decline in tissue function," The results were striking: in tissues that contained the labeled cells, including everything from fat to muscle to eyes, selective removal appeared to postpone age-related damage. Treated mice had no cataracts, and - [Occupy Portland: The didn’t give a Miranda warning, nor did they tell us why we were being arrested,](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/occupy-portland-the-didn’t-give-a-miranda-warning-nor-did-they-tell-us-why-we-were-being-arrested/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation“Freedom to assemble was put into our Constitution so that people could come together and talk about what’s wrong, then figure out solutions,” Ms. Trogub said. “How does an anti-camping ordinance supersede that right? If we don’t have that right, how are the people supposed to participate? How do we fix - [Whose Encampment Should Crowd-Control Police Be Breaking Up? - Boing Boing](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/whose-encampment-should-crowd-control-police-be-breaking-up-boing-boing/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand TransformationThe halls of Congress are public property, and you one-percenters have been encamped here for too long!Via boingboing.net - [Photo of a crosswalk light - Boing Boing](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/photo-of-a-crosswalk-light-boing-boing/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation(And the painting on the brick wall? It's by Dustin Spagnola.)Via boingboing.net - [Tunisians poke fun at Obama assault on OWS on his Facebook page](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/tunisians-poke-fun-at-obama-assault-on-ows-on-his-facebook-page/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand TransformationTunisians launched an all-out assault on Barack Obama’s Facebook page this week, posting thousands of comments making fun of the U.S. president and supporting the “occupy” protests across America. Among the comments, Tunisian Facebook users circulated “Arab Spring” jokes, such as: “Tunisia is the first country to recognize the American Transitional - [OWS has transformed public opinion](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/ows-has-transformed-public-opinion/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation For the first time since the Great Depression, the majority of Americans favor wealth redistribution...Show original - [Keep Wall Street Occupied](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/keep-wall-street-occupied-2/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand TransformationA fast, easy, free, and non-violent way to drive the big banks out of their greedy little minds is sitting in your mailbox right now. You just don't know it ...Show original - [Keep Wall Street Occupied](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/keep-wall-street-occupied/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand TransformationA fast, easy, free, and non-violent way to drive the big banks out of their greedy little minds is sitting in your mailbox right now. You just don't know it ...Show original - [The Quiet Coup: The takeover of the US by Financial Parasites](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/the-quiet-coup-the-takeover-of-the-us-by-financial-parasites/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand TransformationThe crash has laid bare many unpleasant truths about the United States.Show original - [A New Declaration of Independence](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/a-new-declaration-of-independence/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation The weight of the 1 Percent has become intolerable. How can we take our country back?Show original - [Help Rootstrikers Hold The Super Committee Accountable](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/help-rootstrikers-hold-the-super-committee-accountable/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand TransformationWe have a list of demands: Super Committee members should voluntarily disclosure their campaign contributions and lobbying contacts, hold open meetings, and post their recommendations 72 hours before the final committee vote. We've joined forces with the Sunlight Foundation and 30 other organizations to "Haunt the House" on Halloween. We're gathering - [Officers Unleash Anger at Ticket-Fixing Arraignments in the Bronx](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/officers-unleash-anger-at-ticket-fixing-arraignments-in-the-bronx/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation The stunning display of vitriol at a Bronx courthouse by hundreds of off-duty officers raised concerns about the mind-set of the force. Corruption extends from the bottom to the top in the US. We are now a 3rd world country.Show original - [Did You Hear the One About the Bankers?](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/did-you-hear-the-one-about-the-bankers/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand TransformationOur Congress today is a forum for legalized bribery. One consumer group using information from Opensecrets.org calculates that the financial services industry, including real estate, spent $2.3 billion on federal campaign contributions from 1990 to 2010, which was more than the health care, energy, defense, agriculture and transportation industries combined. Why - [New Police Drone Near Houston Could Carry Weapons](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/new-police-drone-near-houston-could-carry-weapons/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation CONROE, Texas -- A Houston area law enforcement agency is prepared to launch an unmanned drone that could someday carry weapons, Local 2 Investigates reports. Saturday, October 29, 2011. Its happening already. Drones in the US. Combine that with the Bush/Cheney/Obama Presidential memos allowing the Gov't to target US - [The man who prints houses | 3D Printer](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/the-man-who-prints-houses-3d-printer/) - Via Scoop.it - Creating the FutureThe film, The Man Who Prints Houses, covers Enrico Dini's visions of revolutionizing the construction process with 3D printing on a massive scale.Show original - [Nothing Grows Forever; Why do we keep thinking the economy will?](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/nothing-grows-forever-why-do-we-keep-thinking-the-economy-will/) - Via Scoop.it - Creating the FutureThere is a lot of truth in this article's diagnosis, but like so many other "Limits to growth" arguments, it doesn't get how transformative Science and Engineering can be. Just like Moore's Law itself, each step of growth (tech) has a limit, but as that limit aproaches, a new paradigm - [I call BULLSHIT: Obama Official Response to Petitions for Legalizing Marijuana](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/i-call-bullshit-obama-official-response-to-petitions-for-legalizing-marijuana/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand TransformationIts clear that Obama and all other Legislators who are attacking otherwise law abiding Citizens are taking money from the only people who are making money from Drugs being illegal: Organized Crime, the DEA, Prison Guards, Beer and Liquor Industries. If Obama really believes that it was a Health Hazard, - [How Klout Got Klout.com domain name (Hutzpah!)](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/how-klout-got-klout-com-domain-name-hutzpah/) - Via Scoop.it - Creating the Future While everyone is making up their minds about whether Klout is an utterly meaningless service or the divine "standard for influence" the world has been clamoring for, I had an interesting chat with Klout co-founder and CEO Joe Fernandez the other...Show original - [Tenn. Protesters To Defy Curfew A 3rd Time](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/tenn-protesters-to-defy-curfew-a-3rd-time/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation Tenn.Protesters To Defy Curfew A 3rd Time... Nashville magistrate Tom Nelson has said there’s no legal reason to keep the demonstrators behind bars and he has released them after each arrest. He has refused each night to sign off on arrest warrants for more than two dozen people taken - [Occupy Together | Home](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/occupy-together  home/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand TransformationWelcome to OCCUPY TOGETHER, an unofficial hub for all of the events springing up across the country in solidarity with Occupy Wall St. As we have followed the news on facebook, twitter, and the various live feeds across the internet, we felt compelled to build a site that would help spread - [Is This The Week The Occupy Movement Got Too Big To Stop? - Kevin Army - Open Salon](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/is-this-the-week-the-occupy-movement-got-too-big-to-stop-kevin-army-open-salon/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand TransformationWhat was caught on video said it all. There was little to no video of protestors being violent, there was a lot showing the police using excessive measures on the protestors. I think the images of the large amounts of tear gas, along with flash grenades and the sounds of rubber - [Why inequality in America is even worse than you thought](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/why-inequality-in-america-is-even-worse-than-you-thought/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand TransformationA new study shows economic and social conditions in the U.S. are at the bottom of the OECD countries. U.S. ranks 27 out of 31 in OECD Social Justice Index, just below Italy, Spain & Portugal and only above Turkey, Chile and MexicoShow original - [You Say You Want a Revolution](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/you-say-you-want-a-revolution/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation Andrew Sullivan: How I learned to love the ‘goddam hippies’—and why their protests aren’t going to end.Show original - [How OWS confuses and ignores Fox News and the pundit class.](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/how-ows-confuses-and-ignores-fox-news-and-the-pundit-class/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation I confess to being driven insane this past month by the spectacle of television pundits professing to be baffled by the meaning of Occupy Wall Street. Good grief. Isn’t the ability to read still a job requirement for a career in journalism?Show original - [How Occupy has shifted the national debate - Boing Boing](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/how-occupy-has-shifted-the-national-debate-boing-boing/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand TransformationPrior to Occupy Wall Street, the dominant narrative in US politics was about debt and deficit reduction, and the attendant austerity measures that entailed. A study of keywords from network newscasts shows that the national policy discussion has shifted in the wake of the Occupy demonstrations, with an increased emphasis on - [Egyptians march from Tahrir Square to support Occupy Oakland protestors - Boing Boing](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/egyptians-march-from-tahrir-square-to-support-occupy-oakland-protestors-boing-boing/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand TransformationAs they vowed earlier this week to do, Egyptian pro-democracy protesters marched from Tahrir square to the U.S. Embassy today to march in support of Occupy Oakland—and against police brutality witnessed in Oakland on Tuesday night, and commonly experienced in Egypt.Show original - [CITY COUNCIL UNANIMOUSLY AGREES 'OCCUPY TENTS ARE A FORM OF SPEECH' | Occupy Orange County Irvine](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/city-council-unanimously-agrees-occupy-tents-are-a-form-of-speech-occupy-orange-county-irvine/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation Irvine City Council UNANIMOUSLY AGREED that the Occupy Orange County Tent Village is accepted as a form of free speech. The City Of Irvine passed and emergency motion to add Occupy Irvine to the official agenda.Show original - [How would you spend $7 billion?](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/how-would-you-spend-7-billion/) - Via Scoop.it - Creating the Future Two proposed energy projects (each with a $7 billion price tag) present two very different directions for America's future. Which would you choose?Show original - [Lauren Weinstein's Blog: Meet the Real Parasites: Congress Declares Nuclear War on the Global Internet](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/lauren-weinsteins-blog-meet-the-real-parasites-congress-declares-nuclear-war-on-the-global-internet/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand TransformationWe don't have health care. We don't have jobs. Our civil liberties are being quashed. Income and wealth disparities in this country are immense and growing more pronounced as each hour passes, making the 1% richer and the rest of us ... dirt. So what are our elected representatives in - [Google shows the limits of a free web](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/google-shows-the-limits-of-a-free-web/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand TransformationWe received requests from state and local law enforcement agencies to remove YouTube videos that displayed protests against social leaders or used offensive language in reference to religious leaders. We declined the majority of these requests and only locally restricted videos that appeared to violate local laws prohibiting speech that could - [Charlie Rose - Slavoj Zizek](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/charlie-rose-slavoj-zizek/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation Slavoj Zizek is a Slovenian philosopher and critical theorist working in the traditions of Hegelianism, Marxism and Lacanian psychoanalysis. He has made contributions to political theory, film theory, and theoretical psychoanalysis.Show original - [TOM THE DANCING BUG: In Which Lucky Ducky and the Houndsville 99% Declare Class Warfare!! - Boing Boing](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/tom-the-dancing-bug-in-which-lucky-ducky-and-the-houndsville-99-declare-class-warfare-boing-boing/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand TransformationTh-That's CLASS WARFAREShow original - [Breakout Labs: Home](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/breakout-labs-home/) - Via Scoop.it - Creating the FutureBreakout Labs is a bold re-envisioning of the way early-stage science gets funded, allowing independent researchers and early-stage companies to test their most radical ideas. We invite individuals, teams of individuals, and early stage companies from around the world to apply for funding of a specific project that would push - [House Tax Writer: Exempt Many Offshore Profits](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/house-tax-writer-exempt-many-offshore-profits/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand TransformationRepublicans: Exempt Many Offshore Profits... A complete give away to Multi-National Corporations and an incentive to offshore even moreShow original - [The real reason OWS terrifies conservatives](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/the-real-reason-ows-terrifies-conservatives/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation It's not the dirty hippies.It's because the protesters could find natural allies in the Tea Party...Show original - [CIA's 'Facebook' Program Dramatically Cut Agency's Costs](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/cias-facebook-program-dramatically-cut-agencys-costs/) - Via Scoop.it - Creating the Future The CIA's invention of Facebook has saved the government millions of dollars.Show original - [House To Repeal Law Withholding Contractors’ Taxes](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/house-to-repeal-law-withholding-contractors’-taxes/) - Via Scoop.it - Creating the FutureHouse To Repeal Law that cracked down on taxes owed by deadbeat government contractors. The law requires federal, state and local governments to withhold 3 percent of their payments to contractors to encourage the full payment of taxes. It is to take effect in 2013.Show original - [Land Swap Would Boost Huge Ariz. Copper Mine](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/land-swap-would-boost-huge-ariz-copper-mine/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand TransformationGOP lawmakers and business groups, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Mining Association want to steal US Tonto National Forest and give it to a Foreign Foreign Mining CompanyShow original - [BlueBiped: A human-like walking robot that requires no power source | ExtremeTech](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/bluebiped-a-human-like-walking-robot-that-requires-no-power-source-extremetech/) - Via Scoop.it - Creating the Future Today's groundbreaking entry into the Uncanny Valley is a pair of mechanical, robot legs that are propelled entirely by their own weight: they can walk with a human-like gait without motors or external control.Show original - [Narco Polo comic: Marijuana Promotes Creativity](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/narco-polo-comic-marijuana-promotes-creativity/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand TransformationThe astronomer and author, Carl Sagan, attributed numerous insights to marijuana and has defended this inspiration from those who call it illusory. The psychologist, Susan Blackmore, has written, “I can honestly say that without cannabis, most of my scientific research would never have been done and most of my books on - [Judith Butler at Occupy Wall Street](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/judith-butler-at-occupy-wall-street/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand TransformationPeople have asked, so what are the demands? What are the demands all of these people are making? Either they say there are no demands and that leaves your critics confused, or they say that the demands for social equality and economic justice are impossible demands. And the impossible demands, they - [Homelessness becomes an OWS issue](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/homelessness-becomes-an-ows-issue/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation Protesters are discovering just how difficult the government makes life for its most downtrodden citizens...Show original - [What If We Paid Off The National Debt? : NPR](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/what-if-we-paid-off-the-national-debt-npr/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation It sounds ridiculous today. But not so long ago, the prospect of a debt-free U.S. was seen as a real possibility with the potential to upset the global financial system.Show original - [WIPO’s secret, corporate-run trademark enforcement meeting – Boing Boing](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/wipo’s-secret-corporate-run-trademark-enforcement-meeting-–-boing-boing/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand TransformationThe World Intellectual Property Organization is hosting an off-the-books meeting in the Philippines on trademark enforcement, with speakers from Louis Vuitton, Chanel, the Swiss Watch Federation. The meeting wasn't announced on WIPO's website, and it exclusively features speakers who support greater enforcement, with no one speaking for moderation and balance.Show original - [Chris Piascik cartoon: Millionaires in US Congress – Boing Boing](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/chris-piascik-cartoon-millionaires-in-us-congress-–-boing-boing/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation"The US Senate: white male millionaires working for you" -- Dave Barry You can quibble that 5% of the US Population is Millionares but the point is still validShow original - [Densely-linked cluster of 147 companies control 40% of world’s total wealth – Boing Boing](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/densely-linked-cluster-of-147-companies-control-40-of-world’s-total-wealth-–-boing-boing/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation...it found much of it tracked back to a "super-entity" of 147 even more tightly knit companies - all of their ownership was held by other members of the super-entity - that controlled 40 per cent of the total wealth in the network. "In effect, less than 1 per cent of - [Scenes From A Multiverse - Evidence Schmevidence](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/scenes-from-a-multiverse-evidence-schmevidence/) - Via Scoop.it - Internet of the absurdWithout Government Interference Corporations would be free to take care of the so called Spike ProblemShow original - [Chinese web censors block terms related to “Occupy,” to stamp out movement’s spread in China – Boing Boing](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/chinese-web-censors-block-terms-related-to-“occupy”-to-stamp-out-movement’s-spread-in-china-–-boing-boing/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand TransformationChina Digital Times verifies a long list of banned keywords on Sina Weibo’s search function that combine “occupy” (占领) with a place name inside China: "provincial capitals, economically developed regions, and few symbolic local areas."Show original - [W. enters my wife’s schoolboard race](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/w-enters-my-wife’s-schoolboard-race/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation Our family gets a close-up look of how big money has taken over politics -- even at the local level...Show original - [Robot Builds Itself With Foam : Discovery News](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/robot-builds-itself-with-foam-discovery-news/) - Via Scoop.it - Creating the FutureThe Modular Robotics Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania, in a project led by Shai Revzen, has created a robot that can be assembled from foam that hardens and pieces that allow the robot to move. The “foambot” looks ungainly, and it is. But once you have a shape -- - [Student loan debts crush an entire generation](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/student-loan-debts-crush-an-entire-generation/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation Hyped like subprime mortgages, school loans now run to hundreds of billions with no relief in sight...Show original - [Fired NPR host sees “McCarthyism”](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/fired-npr-host-sees-“mccarthyism”/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation OWS supporter Lisa Simeone says she was dismissed after right-wing attacks... “I said, ‘Can you explain how?’” Simeone went on. “Scott Simon writes Op-Eds. Cokie Roberts [is paid] tens of thousand of dollars in fees talking to business groups. Moira Ellison goes on Fox TV to express her opinions. - [Charities supporting AT&T’s buyout of T-Mobile have financial incentive](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/charities-supporting-att’s-buyout-of-t-mobile-have-financial-incentive/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation At first sight, it’s hard to understand why the Shreveport-Bossier Rescue Mission, a homeless shelter and clinic in Louisiana, would lobby the Federal Communications Commission.Show original - [Winged Robots Hint at the Origins of Flight - ScienceNOW](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/winged-robots-hint-at-the-origins-of-flight-sciencenow/) - Via Scoop.it - Creating the Future Winged Robots Hint at the Origins of Flight - ScienceNOW...Show original - [How Google's Self-Driving Car Works - IEEE Spectrum](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/how-googles-self-driving-car-works-ieee-spectrum/) - Via Scoop.it - Creating the Future Google engineers explain the technology behind their autonomous vehicle and show videos of the road tests...Show original - [From Tunisia to Wall Street: Letter to a Dead Man About the Occupation of Hope](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/from-tunisia-to-wall-street-letter-to-a-dead-man-about-the-occupation-of-hope/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand TransformationWe are now in some sort of an American Fall. Civil society here has suddenly hit the ground running, and we are all headed toward a future no one imagined when you, a young Tunisian vegetable seller capable of giving so much, who instead had so much taken from you, burned - [Another example US becoming 3rd World: Thieves steal entire bridge in New Castle](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/another-example-us-becoming-3rd-world-thieves-steal-entire-bridge-in-new-castle/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation NEW CASTLE, Pennsylvania - Scrap metal thieves are often caught stealing construction material and indoor plumbing, but in Lawrence County, they're being blamed for stealing an entire bridge.Show original - [Lemony Snicket’s “observations” on Occupy Wall Street](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/lemony-snicket’s-“observations”-on-occupy-wall-street/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation The "Series of Unfortunate Events" author backs the Occupy movement via OccupyWriters.com...Show original - [“Occupy your school.”](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/“occupy-your-school-”/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation The Boston encampment schools a new generation of social media upstarts...Show original - [Lost in Detention – Obama implements Republican Anti-Immigrant program](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/lost-in-detention-–-obama-implements-republican-anti-immigrant-program/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation FRONTLINE and the Investigative Reporting Workshop examine the Obama administration’s controversial get-tough immigration policy. Another example of the how Obama is completing the Police State that Cheney/Bush startedShow original - [Amazing video of Quantum Pinning that is more than magnetic Levitation](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/amazing-video-of-quantum-pinning-that-is-more-than-magnetic-levitation/) - Via Scoop.it - Creating the FutureWhen a superconductor is brought to a very low temperature and placed over a magnet it is able to be pinned within the magnetic fields causing it to levitate. Show original - [Microsoft "convinces" India to put WIndows on "Free Laptops"](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/microsoft-convinces-india-to-put-windows-on-free-laptops/) - Via Scoop.it - Creating the FutureELCOT’s repeated changes in the tender have forced out free software and pushed in Microsoft products, a move that in the words of former ELCOT MD C Umashankar could ‘end up putting unproductive laptops with Windows in the hands of poor students’. This would entrap them in Microsoft’s proprietary web - [Why what’s good for GE isn’t good for America](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/why-what’s-good-for-ge-isn’t-good-for-america/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand TransformationIts clear that Obama is part of the 1% and against the 99% Obama's jobs czar, Jeffrey Immelt, thinks we can beat China by making life easier for corporations...Show original - [The progressive debate we need](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/the-progressive-debate-we-need/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand TransformationThe president isn't offering strong alternatives to the GOP's regressive ideas. Republicans are debating again tonight. And once again, Americans will hear the standard regressive litany: government is bad, Medicare and Medicaid should be cut, “Obamacare” is killing the economy, undocumented immigrants are taking our jobs, the military should get - [The death panels are already here](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/the-death-panels-are-already-here/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand TransformationWhat happens when drug shortages spike? Another example that "Markets" are not the answer to every question.Show original - [How to beat the regressive right](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/how-to-beat-the-regressive-right/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand TransformationProgressives believe in openness, equal opportunity, and tolerance. Progressives assume we’re all in it together: We all benefit from public investments in schools and health care and infrastructure. And we all do better with strong safety nets, reasonable constraints on Wall Street and big business, and a truly progressive tax system. - [CHARTS: Here's What The Wall Street Protesters Are So Angry About...](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/charts-heres-what-the-wall-street-protesters-are-so-angry-about/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation The full story, in charts....The problem in a nutshell is this: Inequality in this country has hit a level that has been seen only once in the nation's history, and unemployment has reached a level that has been seen only once since the Great Depression. And, at the same time, - [Its Bewildering that so many "Media Stars" are bewildered and befuddled by #OWS Movement](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/its-bewildering-that-so-many-media-stars-are-bewildered-and-befuddled-by-ows-movement/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand TransformationAnyone who expressed difficulty seeing or understanding what motivates these protests revealed many things about themselves. None is flattering. The only thing that’s surprising is that these protests didn’t happen sooner and that they’re not more widespread and intense.Show original - [Worst Kept Secret Now Confirmed: Government Was Very Involved Helping RIAA/MPAA Negotiate Six Strikes | Techdirt](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/worst-kept-secret-now-confirmed-government-was-very-involved-helping-riaampaa-negotiate-six-strikes-techdirt/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation From the moment the so-called "voluntary" six strikes agreement between the RIAA/MPAA and various ISPs came out, it was obvious that the Obama administration, in the form of VP Joe Biden's office and IP Czar Victoria Espinel, were...Show original - [Income Gain Distribution 1917-81; 1982-2000; 2001-08 | The Big Picture](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/income-gain-distribution-1917-81-1982-2000-2001-08-the-big-picture/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation Here is an interesting interactive tool that lets you look at different year ranges based upon societal gains in income, and how they got...Show original - [Occupy Wall Street Hackathons Want to Build a Better Protest](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/occupy-wall-street-hackathons-want-to-build-a-better-protest/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation Meet Occupy Wall Street's decentralized IT department.Show original - [Coffee Party | Wake Up and Stand Up](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/coffee-party-wake-up-and-stand-up/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand TransformationThe mission of the Coffee Party is to fight the Cycle of Corruption, and restore self-governance to the People. To do so, we must achieve 1. Campaign finance reform2. Wall Street reform3. Tax code reformShow original - [Coffee Party USA (CP) & Occupy Wall Street Synergies Exist](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/coffee-party-usa-cp-occupy-wall-street-synergies-exist/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation Advocates of campaign finance reform say the protesters in New York and elsewhere have, in recent weeks, brought the question of corporate influence closer to the front burner of national discourse, adding fresh momentum ...Show original - [Rally in SF: Tell Obama to Stop the Keystone XL Pipeline](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/rally-in-sf-tell-obama-to-stop-the-keystone-xl-pipeline/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation We're greeting President Obama at his high-dollar fundraiser in San Francisco with a big rally to deliver a simple message: It's time for the change you promised - you must stop the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline.Show original - [Obama’s crackdown on medical marijuana](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/obama’s-crackdown-on-medical-marijuana/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand TransformationThe Justice Department shifts course and goes after California's lucrative pot industry...The only reason that an administration would go down this path is that they have been bribed by the Drug Kingpins to protect the Illegal Drug trade and destroy competion. See http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/prohibition/Show original - [» U.S. Copyright Czar Cozied Up to Content Industry, E-Mails Show](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/»-u-s-copyright-czar-cozied-up-to-content-industry-e-mails-show/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation E-mails obtained through a government sunshine request show top government officials were deeply involved in secret negotiations about ISPs punishing Americans accused of illegal file sharing.Show original - [Wrong People Arrested on Wall Street « Borowitz Report](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/wrong-people-arrested-on-wall-street-«-borowitz-report/) - Via Scoop.it - Internet of the absurdNEW YORK (The Borowitz Report) – Millions of Americans cheered the news on Friday that arrests had finally been made on Wall Street, but were soon disappointed to learn that the wrong people had been taken into custody.Show original - [Iraq pullout: The quicker the better](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/iraq-pullout-the-quicker-the-better/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation Critics of U.S.withdrawal plans are on the wrong side of history...Show original - [Occupy Wall Street: A trans-Atlantic movement](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/occupy-wall-street-a-trans-atlantic-movement/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand TransformationProtests planned in several European cities -- including London, Rome and Frankfurt -- both today and tomorrow...Show original - [Dennis Ritchie: The Shoulders Steve Jobs Stood On](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/dennis-ritchie-the-shoulders-steve-jobs-stood-on/) - Via Scoop.it - Creating the Future The tributes to Dennis Ritchie won’t match the river of praise that spilled out over the web after the death of Steve Jobs. But they should.Show original - [Space Companies Hatch Plans for Reusable Rockets - Technology Review](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/space-companies-hatch-plans-for-reusable-rockets-technology-review/) - Via Scoop.it - Creating the Future Such a rocket would dramatically reduce the costs of spaceflight—a promise NASA's space shuttle failed to deliver on.Show original - [Defend Occupy Wall Street From Eviction](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/defend-occupy-wall-street-from-eviction/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation This is about more than just one protest. What's at stake is the very right we have as Americans to speak out when we've been wronged, and to peaceably assemble as a community to seek redress from the government.Show original - [The LA Times notices the “double standard” on Iran](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/the-la-times-notices-the-“double-standard”-on-iran/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand TransformationBut wait a minute. Two weeks ago, the United States assassinated one of its enemies in Yemen, on Yemeni soil. If the U.S. believes it has the right to assassinate enemies like Anwar Awlaki anywhere in the world in the name of a “war on terror” that has no geographical limitation, - [Congressional study: Warren Buffett is right](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/congressional-study-warren-buffett-is-right/) - Via Scoop.it - Internet of the absurdThe Congressional Research Service finds that U.S. tax code really is in violation of "The Buffett Rule"Show original - [Joseph Stiglitz and Lawrence Lessig at Occupy Wall Street](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/joseph-stiglitz-and-lawrence-lessig-at-occupy-wall-street/) - Via Scoop.it - Internet of the absurdJoseph Stiglitz teaches at the Columbia Business School and Columbia's Department of Economics and, of course, won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2001. Given Lessig’s focus on how corporate money corrupts our political system, it’s no surprising that he would have something to say about the potential of the Wall - [Balloon Tardis – Boing Boing](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/balloon-tardis-–-boing-boing/) - Via Scoop.it - Internet of the absurdIn a remarkable feat of balloon twistery, Twisty Kristy made this full-sized balloon Tardis for eAtomic Comics at Chandler Fashion Square Mall.Show original - [Bankers’ salaries vs. everyone else’s – Boing Boing](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/bankers’-salaries-vs-everyone-else’s-–-boing-boing/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand TransformationAnother reason to re-regulate the parasitic Financial Racketeers out of existanceShow original - [Insufferable Coffee Snobs video – Boing Boing](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/insufferable-coffee-snobs-video-–-boing-boing/) - Via Scoop.it - Internet of the absurdThis has happened to me when I've asked for my favorite Iced EspressoShow original - [The Obama jobs plan’s Democratic enemies](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/the-obama-jobs-plan’s-democratic-enemies/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation How a handful of Senate Democrats undermined Obama's effort to make a basic, powerful point about GOP obstruction...Show original - [How to realize the OWS vision](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/how-to-realize-the-ows-vision/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation Five changes that would help this grassroots movement transform the nation...Show original - [Occupy Wall Street, Denounce the Democrats | Black Agenda Report](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/occupy-wall-street-denounce-the-democrats-black-agenda-report/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand TransformationIt is Barack Obama, not George W. Bush, who made a lie of the dictum that Social Security is the “third rail of politics.” It is now in the slaughterhouse along with all other government programs, waiting its turn to be eviscerated. The Democrats have excelled in committing the crimes which - [One Per Cent: Hypersonic X-37 spaceplanes 'could carry astronauts'](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/one-per-cent-hypersonic-x-37-spaceplanes-could-carry-astronauts/) - Via Scoop.it - Creating the FutureThe Boeing X-37B, the mysterious uncrewed spaceplane developed for the US Air Force, could be scaled up and modified to carry astronauts. That's the tantalising possibility posited by a Boeing chief at Space 2011Show original - [Some Say Occupy Wall Street Protesters Aimless; Facts Say Otherwise - Forbes](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/some-say-occupy-wall-street-protesters-aimless-facts-say-otherwise-forbes/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation There has been a lot said about the lack of vision, lack of specific demands, and a disparity of beliefs and goals among the Occupy Wall Street protesters in the media in the past several weeks. A survey of the protestors shows that none of these criticisms are true.Show original - [U.S. Drug Policy Would Be Imposed Globally By New House Bill](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/u-s-drug-policy-would-be-imposed-globally-by-new-house-bill/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand TransformationThe House Judiciary Committee passed a bill yesterday that would make it a federal crime for U.S. residents to discuss or plan activities on foreign soilShow original - [Researchers engineer new way to inhibit allergic reactions without side effects // News // Notre Dame News // University of Notre Dame](https://www.ibd.com/anti-ageing/researchers-engineer-new-way-to-inhibit-allergic-reactions-without-side-effects-news-notre-dame-news-university-of-notre-dame/) - Via Scoop.it - Creating the Future Researchers from the University of Notre Dame have announced a breakthrough approach to allergy treatment that inhibits food allergies, drug allergies and asthmatic reactions without...Show original - [The Walk Again Project](https://www.ibd.com/anti-ageing/the-walk-again-project/) - Via Scoop.it - Creating the FutureBMI research raises the hope that in the not-too-distant future, patients suffering from a variety of neurological disorders that lead to devastating levels of paralysis may be able to recover their mobility by harnessing their own brain impulses to directly control sophisticated neuroprostheses.Show original - [Did a right-wing agent provocateur instigate Air and Space Museum pepper-spray chaos? – Boing Boing](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/did-a-right-wing-agent-provocateur-instigate-air-and-space-museum-pepper-spray-chaos-–-boing-boing/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation...evidence indicating that Patrick Howley, Assistant Editor of right-wing rag The American Spectator, acted as an agent provocateur at an anti-war protest outside the Air and Space Museum yesterday, leading to an incident in which a number of protesters were maced.Show original - [Curbing inflammatory cells could lead to treatments for diseases including atherosclerosis and cancer](https://www.ibd.com/anti-ageing/curbing-inflammatory-cells-could-lead-to-treatments-for-diseases-including-atherosclerosis-and-cancer/) - Via Scoop.it - Creating the FutureThis technique, known as RNA interference, offers a targeted way to stop inflammation and could be useful in treating not only atherosclerosis, but also other forms of heart disease as well as cancer.Show original - [Qu8k - BALLS 20 - Carmack Prize Attempt - High Altitude Rocket On-board Video](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/creating_the_future_of_abundance/qu8k-balls-20-carmack-prize-attempt-high-altitude-rocket-on-board-video/) - Via Scoop.it - Creating the FutureOn September 30, 2011 at 11:08am, Derek Deville's Qu8k (pronounced "Quake") launched from the Black Rock Desert in Nevada to an altitude of 121,000' before returning safely to earth. Above 99% of the atmosphere the sky turns black in the middle of the day and the curvature of the earth - [In Less than a Minute Alan Grayson Explains Occupy Wall Street to the 1%](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/in-less-than-a-minute-alan-grayson-explains-occupy-wall-street-to-the-1/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation While on Real Time with Bill Maher former congressman, and future 2012 House candidate, Alan Grayson explained to the panel the 1% what Occupy Wall Street is all about.Show original - [Obama issues Secret Orders Target Email of Citizens without Warrents](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/obama-issues-secret-orders-target-email-of-citizens-without-warrents/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation The U.S. government has obtained a controversial type of secret court order to force Google Inc. and small Internet provider Sonic.net Inc. to turn over information from the email accounts of WikiLeaks volunteer Jacob Appelbaum.Show original - [Philosopher to OWS: Keep speaking truth to power](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/philosopher-to-ows-keep-speaking-truth-to-power/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation The Slovenian academic appeared in Zuccotti Park yesterday to give an inspiring talk to protesters VIDEO...Show original - [Rich and Tasty: Recipes for the New Class Warfare – Boing Boing](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/rich-and-tasty-recipes-for-the-new-class-warfare-–-boing-boing/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand TransformationWhen it comes time to eat the rich, these masses will not be satisfied with a Koch and a smile, or with Michael Dell on rye. These are people who went deep into debt stocking their kitchens with Italian espresso makers and complicated food processors. They are not going to want - [Occupy Wall Street: the family-friendly protest](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/occupy-wall-street-the-family-friendly-protest/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand TransformationThe movement continues to defy expectations, this time with a daycare center... and parentsforoccupywallst.comShow original - [Dems backing Occupy Wall St. are funded by Wall St.](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/dems-backing-occupy-wall-st-are-funded-by-wall-st/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation Prominent Democrats applaud Occupy Wall Street while taking huge donations from the finance industry...Show original - [High-Frequency Stock Trading Catches Regulators’ Eyes](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/high-frequency-stock-trading-catches-regulators’-eyes/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation Regulators are weighing rules to rein in high-speed, computerized trading, and officials in the United States, Europe and Canada may impose fees aimed at limiting volume.Show original - [The Little ISP That Stood Up to the Government](https://www.ibd.com/telecom/the-little-isp-that-stood-up-to-the-government/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation Tiny Sonic.net Inc., a Santa Rosa, Calif.-based Internet provider with about 36,000 customers, not only fought a secret court order for information from a WikiLeaks supporter, but also spoke out about it.Show original - [PvPonline » Archive » Missed](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/pvponline-»-archive-»-missed/) - Via Scoop.it - Creating the FutureI didn’t want to do a strip about Steve Jobs. I knew a lot of people would do tribute strips and I also knew that the newspaper editorial cartoonists would mail in the same trite crap they always do. And they did. In spades. I didn’t want to add to - [Panic of the Plutocrats](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/panic-of-the-plutocrats/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand TransformationA look at why there is so much hysteria over the Wall Street protests.... What’s going on here? The answer, surely, is that Wall Street’s Masters of the Universe realize, deep down, how morally indefensible their position is.Show original - [NYTimes Sues The Federal Government For Refusing To Reveal Its Secret Interpretation Of The PATRIOT Act | Techdirt](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/nytimes-sues-the-federal-government-for-refusing-to-reveal-its-secret-interpretation-of-the-patriot-act-techdirt/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation We've been covering for a while now how Senators Ron Wyden and Mark Udall have been very concerned over the secret interpretation the feds have of one piece of the PATRIOT Act. They've been trying to pressure the government into publicly...Show original - [As abuse mounted, DEA boosted painkiller supply](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/as-abuse-mounted-dea-boosted-painkiller-supply/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand TransformationEx-official says anti-drug agency rubber-stamped Big Pharma's requests to increase Oxycodone production... Its clear that Criminal/Corporate Drug Lords completely control the US Gov't. From keeping Marijuanna illegal to Patents, protecting Drug pusher's monopoly.Show original - [Steve Jobs, BMW & eBay](https://www.ibd.com/macintosh/steve-jobs-bmw- ebay/) - Via Scoop.it - Creating the FutureThere have been so many articles posted on Steve Jobs in the past week, I really thought I wasn't going to add one here on my blog.However, yesterday, John Lilly wrote a great piece on Steve JoJobs yesterday, and I realized I might have a story worth telling after all. - [DNS Bypass Systems Needed Now! -- VeriSign Wants Right to Shut Down Domains for Pretty Much Any Reason](https://www.ibd.com/telecom/dns-bypass-systems-needed-now-verisign-wants-right-to-shut-down-domains-for-pretty-much-any-reason/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand TransformationVeriSign has formally requested permission to shut down domains (apparently in most cases with only "after the fact" recourse for targeted sites) for a long list of reasons, ranging from what they view as "malware infestation" to "requests" (not limited to court orders) from "law enforcement."Show original - [Tell your friends: Bridges not Bombs](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/tell-your-friends-bridges-not-bombs/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand Transformation Check out this infographic that shows what we could have if we had NOT wasted $459 billion on the war in Afghanistan.Show original - [What caused the wealth gap?](https://www.ibd.com/how-the-world-works/demand_transformation/what-caused-the-wealth-gap/) - Via Scoop.it - Demand TransformationProtesters are furious over America's growing income disparity.-- The U.S. is facing a structural crisis that goes beyond the bursting of the financial bubble. The remedies, therefore, must also go beyond what I regard as gimmickry of a stimulus package, or a temporary tax cut – or, for that matter, even less - [Avoiding a series of tests with Ruby Hashes of Hashes that might have nil before the leaf hash](https://www.ibd.com/ruby-rails/avoiding-a-series-of-tests-with-hashes-of-hashes-that-might-have-nil-before-the-leaf-hash/) - I'm mostly using Ruby to write Opscode Chef Cookbooks. There are a lot of hashes of hashes that contain attributes or Data Bags. Things that look like: If I wanted to test if this value is set I couldn't safely just say: because in some cases or may be nil . If ether of those - [Install Pgrep and PKill for Mac OS X with Brew](https://www.ibd.com/macintosh/install-pgrep-and-pkill-for-mac-os-x-with-brew/) - My fingers still tend to do ps ax | grep some_program_name_I_want_to_kill and then do a kill 2012 to kill that process. Then I remember that I could use pgrep and/or pkill to do the same kind of thing. But then I remember I'm on a Mac which doesn't have those commands built in, though most - [Getting Comments/Annotations in LyX to show up in PDF](https://www.ibd.com/howto/getting-commentsannotations-in-lyx-to-show-up-in-pdf/) - I've started to use Lyx to do our technical documentation (Oh how I wish I could use Framemaker on the Mac, but Adobe destroyed the best tool for technical documentation and made it only available on the legacy Windows virus vector. Lyx is nothing like Framemaker other than supporting structure documents. I'm just lamenting a - [Bonjour / AVAHI & Netatalk to share files files between Ubuntu 10.4 & Mac OS X](https://www.ibd.com/howto/bonjour-avahi-netatalk-to-share-files-files-between-ubuntu-10-4-mac-os-x/) - It use to be somewhat difficult to have Filesystems on an Ubuntu system show up on the Mac Finder the same way that other Mac Filesystems would show up. There has been the Open Source Unix implementation of the Apple File System (afp) but for a long time the Ubuntu packages were not properly configured - [HBase/Hadoop on Mac OS X (Pseudo-Distributed)](https://www.ibd.com/howto/hbase-hadoop-on-mac-ox-x/) - I wanted to do some experimenting with various tools for doing Hadoop and HBase activities and didn't want to have to bother making it work with our Cluster in the Cloud. I just wanted a simple experimental environment on my Macbook Pro running Snow Leopard Mac OS X. So I thought it was time to - [Copy an EBS AMI image to another Amazon EC2 Region](https://www.ibd.com/scalable-deployment/copy-an-ebs-ami-image-to-another-amazon-ec2-region/) - Since I've already created an image I liked in the us-west-1 region, I would like to reuse it in other regions. Turns out there is no mechanism within Amazon EC2 to do that. (See How do I launch an Amazon EBS volume from a snapshot across Regions?). I did find one post that talked a - [Simple update and clone an Amazon EC2 EBS Boot image](https://www.ibd.com/scalable-deployment/simple-update-and-clone-an-amazon-ec2-ebs-boot-image/) - Introduction Well there is already an update to Chef's Ohai library. At first I thought, "Oh no, I have to generate another EC2 image". But then I remember reading that you can update and clone a running EBS boot image. One of the cool features of using an Amazon EC2 instance that boots from an - [Using the Official Opscode 0.8.x Gems to build EC2 AMI Chef Client and Server](https://www.ibd.com/howto/using-the-official-opscode-0-8-x-gems-to-build-ec2-ami-chef-client-and-server/) - Updates Mar 3, 2010 Added call to script ec2-set-defaults that is normally called on ec2 init that sets the locale and apt sources for EC availability Zone Introduction Opscode has officially released 0.8.x of Chef. It is now even more fabulous. I've been using the pre-release version for the last couple of months and it - [Creating an Amazon EC2 AMI for Opscode Chef 0.8 Client and Server](https://www.ibd.com/howto/creating-an-amazon-ami-for-chef-0-8/) - Changes Since Original 1/13/10: Fix various minor inaccuracies and improved description on how to set up the chef-server. Also removed nanite as a requirement (its no longer used) 1/17/10: Add the requirement to build and install mixlib-authentication for the chef-client 1/21/10: Added a mkdir for /var/log/chef 1/22/10: Added step to insure that /tmp permissions are - [Building Opscode Chef 0.8.x from HEAD of the git repo](https://www.ibd.com/howto/using-opscode-chef-0-8-x-alpha-from-head-of-the-git-repo/) - Update: I am having problems using the chef dev tools/client from the HEAD of the chef git repository with the Opscode Alpha Server service. I'm not sure if its me or if the latest versions of the chef client from HEAD is compatible with the Alpha Server Service. So the following is still useful for - [Using the Opscode aws cookbook to attach an EC2 EBS Volume](https://www.ibd.com/scalable-deployment/using-the-opscode-aws-cookbook-to-attach-an-ec2-ebs-volume/) - This weekend I'm on the steep portion of the Opscode Chef learning curve. Up till now, I was able to do a lot of the basics ok. But now I'm working towards moving our full production environment to be deployable with Chef. The first thing I tried was to create an Amazon EC2 Mysql instance - [Installing Ruby Mysql Gem on Snow Leopard Server](https://www.ibd.com/macintosh/installing-ruby-mysql-gem-on-snow-leopard-server/) - Snow Leopard Server (and at least Leopard Server) both have MySQL installed already. But its not a complete enough install to build the Ruby Mysql Gem. It seems that the Snow Leopard Server Mysql does not include all the client stuff that is needed by the mysql gem. The Apple Support article: Mac OS X Server - [Want to work at a Startup with Cool Tech? (HBase, Clojure, Chef, Swarms, Javascript, Ruby & Rails)](https://www.ibd.com/macintosh/want-to-work-at-a-startup-with-cool-tech-hbase-clojure-chef-swarms-javascript-ruby-rails/) - Opportunity Knocks Runa.com, the startup where I am CTO, is looking for great developers to join our small agile team. We're an early stage, pre-series-A startup (presently funded with strategic investments from two large corporations). Runa offers a SaaS to on-line merchant that allows them to offer dynamic product and consumer specific promotions embeded in - [Updating RabbitMQ and RabbitMQ-Stomp to RabbitMQ 1.5.3](https://www.ibd.com/scalable-deployment/updating-rabbitmq-and-rabbitmq-stomp-to-rabbitmq-153/) - I noticed that the rabbitmq-stomp had stopped working on my servers after a reboot. 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I will be looking into that soon and not do anymore work with iClassify (unless Chef turns out to suck or something, but at first glance it looks pretty good!). [After playing with Chef, - [Hadoop, HDFS and Hbase on Ubuntu & Macintosh Leopard](https://www.ibd.com/runa/hadoop-hdfs-and-hbase-on-ubuntu/) - UPDATE: This has been replaced by a newer post Experience installing Hbase 0.20.0 Cluster on Ubuntu 9.04 and EC2 . I found that using the pre-built distributions of Hadoop and HBase much better than trying to build from source. I need more Java/Ant-fu to do the build from scratch. The HBase-0.20.0 Release Candidates are really - [QuarkRuby: Consume non rails-style REST APIs](https://www.ibd.com/ruby-rails/quarkruby-consume-non-rails-style-rest-apis/) - It seems that most "RESTful" APIs in the wild are well, pretty wild. They don't meet the strict requirements of the pure CRUD/REST of ActiveResource. 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