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911 Moving To P2P
BBC – Cool idea at the University of Maryland – “The 911 telephone system functions effectively when there are traffic accidents, health emergencies or small fires, but when large numbers of people are involved it does not handle the capacity,” … Continue reading
More On Prizes
NYT – Looks like the VC’s are struggling with this – Prizes may be of limited value to venture capitalists, who ultimately are less interested in groundbreaking science than they are in concrete and market-ready technologies, according to some technology … Continue reading
Afghanistan + Opium
WaTimes also connects the dots – The spring opium harvest will soon begin in Afghanistan. So will a murderous spring offensive by the Taliban and its allies against U.S. and coalition troops. The two events are directly related, for the … Continue reading
High Return Rocket Investment
Times – The Taliban leverages 107mm rockets to disrupt hydroelectic operations – It took the Taleban only 14 cheap rockets to bring to a halt one of Afghanistan’s most prestigious reconstruction projects. Hours after Royal Marines in Kajaki staged a … Continue reading
Rewarding Failure
NYT – Last June, Douglas J. Feith, a former top Pentagon official involved in planning the Iraq war, was hired by a Defense Department graduate school for military officers and diplomats, with a four-year contract that was to pay him … Continue reading