Archive for July, 2007
« Previous Entrieset al.: don’t impeach Gonzales
Tuesday, July 31st, 2007The temptation, no matter how overwhelming, to impeach Gonzo can’t go forward. Instead, we must look to a sage predecessor as A.G. with equally high ethical and legal standards (kinda along the lines of it takes one to know one…) for the proper course of action: “Let him twist slowly, slowly in the wind.”
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Energy harvesting: walking can give you more energy (literally!)
Tuesday, July 31st, 2007Don’t worry: I haven’t switched this blog to fitness (although Ms. Homeland Security and I bought talking pedometers this weekend, and have become born-again walkers…).
Remember the throngs running from the WTC on 9/11? Now there’s a new technology that might mean people fleeing disasters might be able to generate the power needed to run emergency […]
Time for a change: homeland security 2.0
Monday, July 30th, 2007You’ll notice this blog has a new title: Stephenson blogs on homeland security 2.0 et al.
Same basic content, but the name change reflects the fact that my vision of homeland security is largely congruent with the description Tim O’Reilly, generally acknowledged as the “father of Web 2.0,” gives it:
“Web 2.0 is the network as platform, […]
Time for a switch: homeland security 2.0
Monday, July 30th, 2007You’ll notice this blog has a new title: Stephenson blogs on homeland security 2.0 et al.
Same basic content, but the name change reflects the fact that my vision of homeland security is largely congruent with the description Tim O’Reilly, generally acknowledged as the “father of Web 2.0,” gives it:
“Web 2.0 is the network as platform, […]
Google crowdsourcing Indian maps: good idea to copy
Saturday, July 28th, 2007Dan Karran blogs that Google Earth has enlisted public involvement in Indian 50 cities to flesh out details of its maps with information such as location of graveyards,
Google Earth CTO Michael Jones said at a recent conference:
“… I’ll show you one more thing. Lets say we go to Hyderabad, India. Now, it turns out […]
Republicans’ tipster immunity is half the answer…
Thursday, July 26th, 2007I support the measure that Republicans insisted be added to the Homeland Security bill to would give immunity to tipsters reporting possible terrorist acts, but only if that’s coupled with the kind of active, creative public outreach program by DHS I’ve called for in the past to educate us about what terrorism is — and […]
Terrorist dry runs: another argument for citizen involvement
Wednesday, July 25th, 2007The news of a variety of chillingly-similar incidents at airports around the country involving suspicious packages that included bomb components but where the “fuel” was bricks of cheese is a reminder that Al-Qaeda:
is extremely patient
puts a lot of emphasis on dry runs to check its plans
and that — unless these incidents are just caused by […]
Terrorist dry runs:another argument for citizen involvement
Wednesday, July 25th, 2007The news of a variety of chillingly-similar incidents at airports around the country involving suspicious packages that included bomb components but where the “fuel” was bricks of cheese is a reminder that Al-Qaeda:
is extremely patient
puts a lot of emphasis on dry runs to check its plans
and that — unless these incidents are just caused by […]
Video sharing: great networked homeland security tool!
Tuesday, July 24th, 2007It’s in its infancy, but I suspect that video-sharing for video phones is going to be a great tool for networked homeland security.
As Carolyn Johnson reports, AT & T launched its new Video Share service yesterday in nearly 160 markets. It will let users who have compatible phones (at this point it works with 3 […]
Video sharing: great networked homeland security tool!
Tuesday, July 24th, 2007It’s in its infancy, but I suspect that video-sharing for video phones is going to be a great tool for networked homeland security.
As Carolyn Johnson reports, AT & T launched its new Video Share service yesterday in nearly 160 markets. It will let users who have compatible phones share videos on a real-time basis just […]
