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Friday August 16, 2013 · 1:47 PM PDT

2013/08/16 · 13:47

According to the Tacoma News Tribune, the Tacoma Public bus fleet of approximately 143 vehicles will begin fueling their large CNG buses with compressed gas produced and refined from the city solid waste facility. The article reports that the renewably produced CNG will burn in exactly the same manner as the subterranean extraction gas that has previously fueled the fleet. BEW website gives some information about the production venture. (BEW is the private corporation working with Puget Sound Energy to produce the CNG from waste.) I haven't been able to track down the energy, water and other inputs versus outputs yet, but this sounds like a promising and replicable technology that could be the difference between dirty fossil production methods and more sensible renewable ones.

Update on Carrier IQ Saga

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Sunday December 18, 2011 · 7:26 PM PST

2011/12/18 · 19:26

I wrote about Carrier IQ shortly after the story emerged and now I want to post a quick update on what has happened and perhaps what it shows about our current digital world.

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Wednesday November 30, 2011 · 7:57 AM PST

2011/11/30 · 07:57

In this amazing set of articles, "How much of your phone is yours" and "Researcher responds to carrieriq with video proof" Russell Holly at Geek.com has been looking into the research results of Trevor Eckhart, a digital security expert who has been examining his Android mobile phones' operation. The interesting news is that Mr. Eckhart demonstrates that within his HTC Android phones, the CarrierIQ software is deeply embedded, does not appear in ordinary setup operations, is difficult or impossible to remove, does not shut down when told to do so and worst of all, transmits almost every single action taken by the user of the phone directly to CarrierIQ, often including transmitting secure information in fully readable text. Here's the link to one of Mr. Eckhart's demonstration videos showing what the CarrierIQ software does:

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Saturday September 18, 2010 · 9:44 AM PDT

2010/09/18 · 09:44

Fairly often I like to try to examine our current culture through what I imagine might be the eyes of our descendants, four, six, eight generations from now. I particularly like to try to guess what received wisdom of our age will be eventually seen as the darkest of ignorance and self-deception, as well as to try to imagine what our distant offspring will long for wistully that exists now but will have been legislated away or been left behind by the tramp of progress.

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Will increased societal transparency:

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Will increased societal transparency:

Significantly improve general social conditions?

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Cause greater imbalances in social power?

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Make us all stars in our own reality show?

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Wash out with a balance of positive and negative effects?

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A Renewable Energy Story in Which You Should Be Interested:

Update on Carrier IQ Saga

Your mobile phone may be transmitting everything you do on it without your knowledge or permission.

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