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The Flaw that May Bring Down Bitcoin or Change it Forever
Bitcoin is currently being used as a publishing system due to a design feature/flaw. That flaw threatens the viability of Bitcoin as a currency. How so? Some folks have expoited that feature/flaw to publish Wikileaks cables and pedophile porn links... Continue reading
Posted Apr 30, 2013 at Global Guerrillas
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Nobody to link to. I'm breaking the story.
Commented Apr 30, 2013 on #Bitcoin as a Publishing System: From Wikileaks to Pedophile Links at Global Guerrillas
#Bitcoin as a Publishing System: From Wikileaks to Pedophile Links
Bitcoin is an open source software system. That means nobody owns it. Up until now, it's been used as a decentralized currency system. Why? Bitcoin makes it possible to make non-reversible decentralized transactions on a global scale. It's visibility as a currency has been good for bitcoin....
#Bitcoin as a Publishing System: From Wikileaks to Pedophile Links
Bitcoin is an open source software system. That means nobody owns it. Up until now, it's been used as a decentralized currency system. Why? Bitcoin makes it possible to make non-reversible decentralized transactions on a global scale. It's visibility as... Continue reading
Posted Apr 29, 2013 at Global Guerrillas
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OSW isn't a solo activity. It's built through the actions of many small participants.
That's Ocham's razor.
JR
Commented Apr 19, 2013 on OPEN SOURCE WARFARE never goes away at Global Guerrillas
OPEN SOURCE WARFARE never goes away
Boston is a reminder that: Open source warfare doesn't ever go away. It can be revived with a terrible suddenness, as we saw at the Boston Marathon. The grievances and motivations for attacks never die. They can always find a corner of the Web to fester and grow, in groups too tiny to eve...
OPEN SOURCE WARFARE never goes away
Boston is a reminder that: Open source warfare doesn't ever go away. It can be revived with a terrible suddenness, as we saw at the Boston Marathon. The grievances and motivations for attacks never die. They can always find a... Continue reading
Posted Apr 19, 2013 at Global Guerrillas
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How Drones Can Live off the Land for Years
Posted Mar 17, 2013 at Global Guerrillas
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David is amazing. We've been having a discussion on this topic, more off than on, for the last decade.
JR
Commented Feb 19, 2013 on Life in a Networked Age at Global Guerrillas
Life in a Networked Age
Here's some idle thinking for a sunny afternoon at the end of winter. To access it, let's make a simple assumption that economics, politics, and warfare are all a function of the dominant technological substrate. A technological substrate is the family of related technologies that we rely upo...
Life in a Networked Age
Here's some idle thinking for a sunny afternoon at the end of winter. To access it, let's make a simple assumption that economics, politics, and warfare are all a function of the dominant technological substrate. A technological substrate is the... Continue reading
Posted Feb 15, 2013 at Global Guerrillas
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Don, No need. Current drone autopilots are more than sufficient. JR
Commented Jan 12, 2013 on How an Internet of Drones will be Built: Think 2,400 baud at Global Guerrillas
How an Internet of Drones will be Built: Think 2,400 baud
Did you ever own a 1,200 baud modem? Remember the noise? Remember how slow it was? Did it stop you from connecting to CompuServe or AOL or you favorite BBS? No. We connected anyway. Remember how cool it was to go from 1,200 baud to 2,400 baud? I know that's kind of geeky, but early dr...
I suggested that they opt out.
Commented Jan 9, 2013 on Dronet: Think Interactive TV (iTV) at Global Guerrillas
Dronet: Think Interactive TV (iTV)
Something as big as Dronet (and Internet of drones) isn't going to emerge overnight, fully functional, for a variety of reasons. A big reason is that it's too risky for a big company to invest the billions required to lock up a section of it. Here's why, by way of a story. Back in 1994, befor...
How an Internet of Drones will be Built: Think 2,400 baud
Posted Jan 9, 2013 at Global Guerrillas
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Fixed the rolling drone link:
http://youtu.be/KbtkpYIbuCw
Commented Jan 9, 2013 on How to Roll Out Dronet at Global Guerrillas
How to Roll Out Dronet
The tough part about the Dronet (a simplified version of the made up word: dronenet) idea isn't coming up with the idea, it's figuring out how to make it real and when it could become real (means and timing). If you can't figure out means and timing and communicate it to people, the idea is m...
Dronet: Think Interactive TV (iTV)
Posted Jan 9, 2013 at Global Guerrillas
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Collisions avoidance is actually pretty easy point to point VTOL. Every two points on the network have GPS coordinates. Just use altitude separation (5 ft) for any two routes that intersect. That solves the problem for the first thousand drones per square mile.....
Commented Jan 7, 2013 on How to Roll Out Dronet at Global Guerrillas
How to Roll Out Dronet
The tough part about the Dronet (a simplified version of the made up word: dronenet) idea isn't coming up with the idea, it's figuring out how to make it real and when it could become real (means and timing). If you can't figure out means and timing and communicate it to people, the idea is m...
How to Roll Out Dronet
Posted Jan 6, 2013 at Global Guerrillas
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Larry, not sure what you mean. I've built quite a few technical platforms before, and it's always constructed with shared services, simple interconnections, and honest management.
Commented Jan 4, 2013 on DRONENET How to build it at Global Guerrillas
DRONENET How to build it
How do you build a global delivery network that can handle billions of drones? NOTE: Why billions of drones? A short haul, on-demand delivery service that costs peanuts to use would generate enormous use. New markets would rapidly emerge. Instant food, pharma, etc. Jevon's paradox (altho...
DRONENET How to build it
How do you build a global delivery network that can handle billions of drones? NOTE: Why billions of drones? A short haul, on-demand delivery service that costs peanuts to use would generate enormous use. New markets would rapidly emerge. Instant... Continue reading
Posted Jan 4, 2013 at Global Guerrillas
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Not too worried about that (my mail sits outside all day).
Commented Jan 3, 2013 on What a Dronet (a more compressed spelling?) can leverage at Global Guerrillas
What a Dronet (a more compressed spelling?) can leverage
Arg. Got distracted by this. Ok, let me peel back the next layer of the onion. An open drone network can leverage: a) 3D transportation uses the "big sky theory." Lots of space. Very few obstacles. Compare that to 2D transpo on the ground -- lots of obstacles and limited routes. b) Ubiqu...
What a Dronet (a more compressed spelling?) can leverage
Arg. Got distracted by this. Ok, let me peel back the next layer of the onion. An open drone network can leverage: a) 3D transportation uses the "big sky theory." Lots of space. Very few obstacles. Compare that to 2D... Continue reading
Posted Jan 3, 2013 at Global Guerrillas
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An open drone network vs. closed logistics networks
About five years ago I did some work for a defense contractor on the potential applications of drones ($$). One of the things I put together for them was a logistics system, using drones, for special ops teams. It was... Continue reading
Posted Jan 3, 2013 at Global Guerrillas
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I did. I did exempt DIY and decentralized approaches.
I had done some thinking for a big defense contractor 5 years ago on drone based logistics network for spec ops. Saw matternet's presentation a couple of months ago and it was the same approach, but a lightweight version. 5 years of perspective led me to think that this was the wrong approach, it would be much better using an open protocol.
JR
Commented Jan 2, 2013 on DRONENET The next BIG thing. at Global Guerrillas
DRONENET The next BIG thing.
Here's the next BIG thing. Something that has the potential to be as big as the Internet. It's one of those ideas that hits you like a ton of bricks once you figure it out. Given the rise in the entrepreneurial backchatter I'm getting on it, I supect it's going to roll out very quickly. Mo...
Don't agree. Can't beat $.25 a kilo per 10 mi performance level by going 2D.
Commented Jan 2, 2013 on DRONENET The next BIG thing. at Global Guerrillas
DRONENET The next BIG thing.
Here's the next BIG thing. Something that has the potential to be as big as the Internet. It's one of those ideas that hits you like a ton of bricks once you figure it out. Given the rise in the entrepreneurial backchatter I'm getting on it, I supect it's going to roll out very quickly. Mo...
CompuServe approach.
Commented Jan 2, 2013 on DRONENET The next BIG thing. at Global Guerrillas
DRONENET The next BIG thing.
Here's the next BIG thing. Something that has the potential to be as big as the Internet. It's one of those ideas that hits you like a ton of bricks once you figure it out. Given the rise in the entrepreneurial backchatter I'm getting on it, I supect it's going to roll out very quickly. Mo...
DRONENET The next BIG thing.
Posted Jan 2, 2013 at Global Guerrillas
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Introducing: Resilient Strategies.
Posted Nov 1, 2012 at Global Guerrillas
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