Archive for May, 2007
Unshared Sacrifice
Source:
The Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies [IES], University of Wisconsin at Madison
Related:
Climate Shift Tied To 150,000 Fatalities. Washington Post. 2005
United Nations Environment Program [UNEP]
Climate, The Earth Institute, Columbia University
Global Warming, New York Times [NYT]
Climate Analysis Indicators Tool [CAIT]
The Pew Center on Global Climate Change
Climate Change
Climate and Radiation Branch, Goddard Space Flight Center [GSFC], US National Aeronautics and Space Administration [NASA]
Climate, US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration [NOAA]
Climate Change, US Environmental Protection Agency [EPA]
Debating Net Neutrality: A Nutshell
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Related:
[my comment]
The Coming Internet Traffic Jam: “…argument on government legislation. It is a false argument that some proponents of non-neutrality wish to spread. Surely, in this age of war-profiteers turning in record-breaking quarters, loose monopolies of mergers and bundles, debatable price gouging etc, it is a little naive to want to believe that all the companies involved will tow some good line on the other side of short-term profits for the greater common good.
If anything, some private companies interfere with day-to-day governance through unabashed lobbying and kickback offerings, creating grossly unfair access to government.
If a government legislation has caused long-term damage in the past, the legislation must be refined or redone and the legislators should be unelected, not have the people’s say through ‘smart legislation’ be silenced.”
[/my comment]
Making Public Policy: A Nutshell
Wanted: Proactive Policies
My Pick of FOSS4G 2007 Presentation Submissions
An impressive summary of presentations, but my professional favorite would be ‘IBM DB2 Express-C: A Free Database for Open Source Spatial and XML Development’. Although something tells me that something else might be the crowd favorite.
On DB2 Express-C: It went free soon after its counter-weights Oracle XE and SQL Server XE last year, but its press “news” release has not found its way into major SIS publications. DB2′s continued advancements in the free spatial database market could only make things tighter for PostgreSQL+PostGIS.
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Related:
Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial [FOSS4G] 2007
‘DB2 Express-C, the developer-friendly alternative’
‘Oracle XE and Geospatial Information Systems: An Interview with
Dennis Wuthrich of Farallon Geographics’
