[liberationtech] New approach with Android Router to bypass GFW

2013-04-08 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
Hi all, i just wanted to send a notice to the list about a project still not very known within the privacy/anonymity/censorship environment that's called FQRouter: http://fqrouter.com/ That's a novel approach to bypass GFW by using some of the low-level TCP hacking techniques from Philip Winter

[liberationtech] FYI Random Hacks of Kindness ... Fwd: RHoK Community Newsletter

2013-04-08 Thread Steven Clift
At the local level I see lots of coders with a more or less open community interest that includes open government and working with community orgs or residents directly with the coding skills. So, if you don't have a CfA Brigade in your area, you might want to look for a RHoK group -

[liberationtech] Online Collective Action and Policy Change - Special issue of 'Policy Internet': Now published

2013-04-08 Thread Calderaro, Andrea
Sorry for cross-posting --- Now Published: ‘Online Collective Action and Policy Change’ - Special Issue of “Policy and Internet Guest Editors: Andrea Calderaro (European University Institute) and Anastasia Kavada (University of Westminster) Abstract The Internet has multiplied the platforms

[liberationtech] [CCM-L] Scientific Articles Accepted (Personal Checks, Too)-nytimes

2013-04-08 Thread Eugen Leitl
- Forwarded message from Rangraj Setlur rang...@gmail.com - From: Rangraj Setlur rang...@gmail.com Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2013 19:23:33 +0530 To: International Critical Care Medicine Group cc...@list.pitt.edu Subject: [CCM-L] Scientific Articles Accepted (Personal Checks, Too)-nytimes

[liberationtech] For everyone and their grad students: Fake, pay-to-publish journals conferences

2013-04-08 Thread Yosem Companys
From: Nathaniel Poor natp...@gmail.com http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/08/health/for-scientists-an-exploding-world-of-pseudo-academia.html The scientists who were recruited to appear at a conference called Entomology-2013 thought they had been selected to make a presentation to the leading

Re: [liberationtech] For everyone and their grad students: Fake, pay-to-publish journals conferences

2013-04-08 Thread LISTS
Indeed, this would be a problem. However, it's already a problem, which is to say that poorer universities cannot afford subscriptions to EBSCO and whatnot to begin with, and thus their faculty have trouble keeping up with research in comparison to those at richer schools. What I'm suggesting

Re: [liberationtech] Online Collective Action and Policy Change - Special issue of 'Policy Internet': Now published

2013-04-08 Thread p_p
On 4/8/13 3:21 PM, Calderaro, Andrea wrote: Sorry for cross-posting * * *---* *Now Published: * *'Online Collective Action and Policy Change' - **Special Issue of Policy and Internet * *Guest Editors: * *Andrea Calderaro *(European University Institute) and *Anastasia Kavada *(University of

Re: [liberationtech] For everyone and their grad students: Fake, pay-to-publish journals conferences

2013-04-08 Thread Todd Davies
The model that most appeals to me at the moment is one that has been talked about for years by Doug Engelbart and others: Researchers publish in open access repositories whose costs are modest and can be funded through grants and institutional cost-sharing. Light moderation classifies articles

Re: [liberationtech] For everyone and their grad students: Fake, pay-to-publish journals conferences

2013-04-08 Thread Richard Brooks
Part of the problem is the use of publications to drive academic retention, tenure, promotion. Publications should be vetted by a set of peers that only allow publication of quality goods. The journals are supposed to be the gate-keepers and enforcers of quality. This means that the people trying

[liberationtech] Cloud encryption

2013-04-08 Thread frank
I imagine people here might have thoughts about this. Comes from a Texas-based, civil liberties-oriented blog. Encryption for cloud communications may best protect Fourth Amendment rights via Grits for Breakfast by Gritsforbreakfast on 4/6/13

Re: [liberationtech] For everyone and their grad students: Fake, pay-to-publish journals conferences

2013-04-08 Thread Peter Lindener
Oh-dear! Up to now, I have figured that the Internet revolution was mostly a good thing... The shakeup of the news paper industry at first seemed like it might help to open up Journalism to in some way perhaps more democratic... As I read here about potential confusion regarding the

Re: [liberationtech] For everyone and their grad students: Fake, pay-to-publish journals conferences

2013-04-08 Thread Karl Fogel
If we'd all stop using the verb publish when we really mean endorse, much conversation on this topic would be clearer. (Not aimed at anyone here, by the way; just a general observation :-) .) -Karl Richard Brooks r...@acm.org writes: Part of the problem is the use of publications to drive