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Lawrence_Bird writes:
Reason.com reports this morning on how the Obama administration helped break up the Occupy protests by providing advice and assistance from the FBI and DHS. Nixon must be smiling.
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Lawrence_Bird writes:
Republican Presidential candidate has raised in excess of $3 million since midnight. Grassroots supporters organized a 'money bomb' campaign for 5 November — Guy Fawkes day (remember, remember the 5th of Novemeber). At about 5:50pm EST, the total passed the $3 mio mark and is on a pace for over $4 mio by midnight. The NY Times political blog has more details.
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Lawrence_Bird writes:
Longshot Republican presidential hopeful and internet phenom Ron Paul (TX-14) reported today his campaign has more cash on hand ($2.4M) than does John McCain ($2M) and only slightly less than Mitt Romney ($3M excluding his personal loans). Paul's spokesman noted(nytimes) that most of the donations were via the internet and that Paul is able to run a much more frugal campaign (he has only 11 staffers) because of his wide spread support via sites such as youtube and meetup. The campaign was also the first to provide an iPhone specific platform to allow access to campaign materials.
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Lawrence_Bird writes:
Summary: Routing traffic through peer-to-peer networks could stave off Internet congestion, according to a new study. Technology Review has the story, complete with a very pretty picture. The study also notes that even cutting off the 'core' will allow up to 70% of the 'mantle' of internet connections to continue functioning.
