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Foreign Students Missing In India
TimesOfIndia – After the UK terror plot, more than 40 foreign students studying in various professional colleges in Karnataka have gone missing. The mysterious disappearance is a cause of concern for the state police. They missing students are from Pakistan, … Continue reading
Going After P2P
CNet – Politicians charged on Tuesday that peer-to-peer networks can pose a “national security threat” because they enable federal employees to share sensitive or classified documents accidentally from their computers. Yuck. -Shlok Sign up for my newsletter.
On Writing
Spending a lot of my time working on writing up the India project. Originally planned on a big academic paper, but quickly switched tracks to breaking it up into shorter articles and eventually compiling and synthesizing those into progressively larger … Continue reading
Review: Distraction
Read Bruce Sterling’s Distraction last night. The fun is in his focus on networks which result in the themes and the mostly plausible world he builds. Network thinking applied to a book also results in lots of challenging complexity and smart … Continue reading
Youtube+CNN: Smoke and Mirrors
Wonder how many people were tricked into thinking the Youtube/CNN debate was an experiment or the new face of democracy? (It was neither.) If the idea that individuals can ask potential leaders questions is revolutionary then we are in more trouble than I … Continue reading