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Posts published in November 2011

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

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 Goebbels. I grew up over…

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

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 teraflop barrier busting,” Rajeeb Hazra,…