- Few Californians Understand the State’s Tax System. Fact. – The Bay Citizen
- Proposition 13 has been tinkered with many times, mainly to expand it (by allowing low tax assessments to be passed on within a family, for example). There is growing sentiment that applying Proposition 13 to business property, and maintaining the crazy-quilt of money flows among government entities that Proposition 13 has created, should be reconsidered.
- How Egypt did (and your government could) shut down the Internet
- The only thing we know for sure is that quite suddenly, almost all the Egyptian IP address ranges fell off the 'Net…
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- PirateBox: an "artistic provocation" in lunchbox form
- Painted black with a white skull-and-crossbones, the metal box doesn't hold a pastrami on rye; instead, it's stuffed with networking equipment and batteries, and it hosts a Debian Linux install running a barebones Python-powered Web server. The goal of this "PirateBox": to create an open file-sharing network in any public space, and to do with total privacy.
…tiny Web server has one unique feature: it doesn't connect to the Internet, and it keeps no logs of any kind. Anyone who connects to the PirateBox's WiFi network is automatically directed to a basic Web interface for uploading and downloading files to the box, but privacy and security concerns mean that only local access is provided.
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[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. Signal boosts are awesome! --L.]
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