9/11
Tech at Night: Civil Defense in the D Block, Hugo Chavez, Google, Netflix, Amazon
Hello! As is my right, I’m going to start tonight by shamelessly promoting my own piece arguing for the assignment of the D block of wireless spectrum to civil defense and public safety. I keep calling it civil defense because we learned about the need for this after 9/11, and if the actions of the first responders after those attacks wasn’t wartime civil defense, I | Read More »
Tags: 9/11, Amazon, Argentina, Civil Defense, D Block, FCC, Free Press, FTC, Google, Hugo Chavez, Internet, Netflix, Privacy, Security, Spectrum, Tech at Night, Venezuela, Wireless
We don’t need to auction the D block spectrum for public safety
Remember the Digital TV transition? That was when we took advantage of improved technology by making all the broadcast TV stations give up their old, huge blocks of wireless spectrum, in exchange for receiving new, narrower blocks. By making the switch, we made room for new wireless technologies to bloom. That room was split into 5 “blocks.” The C block, for example, was auctioned off | Read More »
Open Thread: Internet trolls go outside
What happens when an Internet troll goes outside? Open Thread.
9/11 research could make fusion power breakthrough
BBC reports that research into the building collapses on 9/11 has illuminated properties of steel at high temperatures. Fusion power researchers hope that research into the effects of magnetism on very hot steel will lead to the creation of new materials that can take the heat, which would allow the construction of better nuclear fusion chambers.
NIST report on WTC 7 released
Via Slashdot, the NIST report on the collapse of New York World Trade Center building 7 is out. The statements of the cause of the collapse are conclusive. “Our study found that the fires in WTC 7, which were uncontrolled but otherwise similar to fires experienced in other tall buildings, caused an extraordinary event,” said NIST WTC Lead Investigator Shyam Sunder. “Heating of floor beams | Read More »
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