Ho John Lee’s Weblog

• YouTube - ATLAS Rope Ascender
  Powered device for climbing up ropes, from an MIT design contest.
  (tags: random gadgets military hardware mit)
• Wind, Solar Power to Run Rural Mobile Base Stations
  A project aimed at rural networking. “1,500 watts daily, and a six-kilowatt turbine with four solar panels” - seems like a high power budget.
  (tags: kuppam offgrid power wireless networking wind solar ict)
• The Hunt for RFI - Unjamming a Coast Harbor - GPS World
  Monterey Bay researchers tracking down GPS interference learn that a VHF/UHF TV antenna with built-in preamplifier can jam GPS reception for the entire harbor.
  (tags: gps rf engineering antenna hacking privacy security risks)
• Embodying Terror Networks: How Direction Creates Structure - Mitch Stripling (PDF)
  A paper on the structure of terror networks (Al Qaeda). Social network + “animating narrative”, rather than hierarchical or hub-based control.
  (tags: global terrorism military security asymmetric warfare startups business strategy)
• Global Guerrillas: TERRORIST NETWORKS: Advanced Topics
  Some comments on Mitch Stripling’s paper on terrorists and directional scale free social networks.
  (tags: global terrorism military security asymmetric warfare startups business strategy)
• Terrorists trading on bourses: NSA-Politics/Nation-News-The Economic Times
  Some cases of terrorist groups raising funds by market manipulation on the Bombay and Chennai stock exchanges. This would work especially well on thin markets.
  (tags: stock market trading risk management global terrorism finance trends)
• Vertical Solutions
  Introduction and a collection of papers on quantitative testing for trading system design.
  (tags: stock trading quantitative strategy finance risk management)
• The Big Picture | How Do You Define Your Reality?
  A good summary of the schizophrenic, conflicting outlooks and approaches to the markets, trading and investing.
  (tags: stock market trading investing finance economy)
• One million OLPC laptop orders confirmed - Network World
  Currently, the laptops cost around $130, but the goal is to whittle down the price to $100.
  (tags: olpc ruraldevelopment ict education digitaldivide)
• TechStars: TechStars 2007
  Sort of a micro-incubator, by Brad Feld, David Cohen, and others based in Boulder, Colorado. $5K seed grant, server access, and mentoring for the summer, for 5%.
  (tags: vc entrepreneurship startup venture funding trends)

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