The World's Most Notorious Micronation Has the Secret to Protecting Your Data From the NSA. A few months ago, internet entrepreneur Avi Freedman received an unexpected email from a prince. A decade earlier, Freedman had been part of an effort to create a data haven—a safe place where information could be stashed far from the reach of prying eyes and nosy governments—on the world's smallest and most notorious micronation, Sealand, a 120-by-50-foot anti-aircraft platform seven miles off the British coast and 60 feet above the waters of the cold North Sea. Now Freedman's ex-partners, the self-proclaimed royal family of Sealand, wanted to try again.
Freedman said yes. HavenCo, the Sealand-based data haven that failed spectacularly a decade ago, relaunched this weekend. And this time, Freedman thinks it's going to work. To understand what HavenCo is trying now, it helps to understand how this all started. The Principality of Sealand, where HavenCo was once based, was founded in 1967 by a waggish former British Army Major named Roy Bates.
Garbage Patch State. Asapisland's Blog | Talk is cheap – let´s start positive action :-) Cities in the Sea. EmpireMe. Boids (Flocks, Herds, and Schools: a Distributed Behavioral Model) In 1986 I made a computer model of coordinated animal motion such as bird flocks and fish schools. It was based on three dimensional computational geometry of the sort normally used in computer animation or computer aided design. I called the generic simulated flocking creatures boids.
The basic flocking model consists of three simple steering behaviors which describe how an individual boid maneuvers based on the positions and velocities its nearby flockmates: Each boid has direct access to the whole scene's geometric description, but flocking requires that it reacts only to flockmates within a certain small neighborhood around itself.
The neighborhood is characterized by a distance (measured from the center of the boid) and an angle, measured from the boid's direction of flight. Flockmates outside this local neighborhood are ignored. A boid's neighborhood A slightly more elaborate behavioral model was used in the early experiments. Online resources related to boids Software Boids C++ Boids. New Utopia, capitalism, tourist, New-Utopia, Libertarian, Principality, Prince Lazarus, Tax Haven, property, investment, the palms, free enterprise, laissez-faire, real-estate, island paradise, Hong Kong, real-estate, Island paradise, Weblog archive » Adaptive Urban Development. To avoid severe shortages in 2050, existing metropolises must transform into flood proof ecocities. Moreover parts of these cities + food production must be located on the water.
These solutions were presented by Ruger de Graaf in his Inaugural Lecture on the Blue Revolution. Below (following read more) you will find a summary + a link to his book presented after this lecture. Professor De Graaf quantifies that, even with wiser use of the available land, the word will lack in 2050 an estimated 22 million square kilometres, or more than two times China. If the required CO2 compensation is taken into account, the shortage is even much larger (DeltaSync, 2012).
But, if we follow his plea for a Blue Revolution (i.e. locating a part of the urban areas on the ocean and replacing inefficient food production on land by efficient sea based production) then we will even have a surplus of available land. Summary It is expected that until 2100 a total of 5 billion people will move to cities. MICRONATION / MACRONATION 2012. An interactive platformproject produced by HONF curated by : Enin Supriyanto 3D site plan + Research + Laboratory Works + Presentation + Small Symposium + Exhibition + Residency Program + Collaboration Project + Open Culture Meeting + Social Hacking Activism supported by : HONF_lab, HONFablab, HONFmedia, v.u.f.o.c, Scorpa Pranedya, Rumah Sleman, ARGAWASTU, LPTI (Lembaga Pengkajian Teknologi dan Informasi) Pelataran Mataram, Cahaya Khatulistiwa, interkoneksi persada, Langgeng Art Foundation (LAF), Pesantren Al-Qodir Yogyakarta, Gandang's Garden, Umahseni Jakarta, WAFT, Aliansi Rakyat Menoreh (ALARM), TBM Positif, inatrade, VIROLOGI, Forum PEL (Pengembangan Ekonomi Lokal), idcorner, KOST-NET, DORXLAB, Istituto Italiano di Cultura Jakarta 3 April + Build a 'Satellite Grabber' for MICRONATION/MACRONATION 2012 venue : HONF_lab + v.u.f.o.c 9 April + Press Conference I venue : Pesantren Al-Qodir Yogyakarta + Site visit and Presentation 10 April + Site visit and Discussion 11 April - 20 April 12 April - 15 April 5 May.
Official Home Site of the Principality of Hutt River, Homepage! Oasis En Tous Lieux - Accueil. Chers amis, Il y a environ une dizaine d'années, constatant déjà le processus de désertification sociale, économique, écologique et rurale, j'avais proposé comme alternative la création des Oasis en tous lieux. Un manifeste avait été rédigé pour rendre intelligible le concept et dans le même temps vérifier sa pertinence. Celle-ci aujourd'hui ne fait aucun doute au vu de l'évolution négative accélérée de notre système de vie dont le nombre de victimes ne cesse de progresser, générant de grandes incertitudes avec un avenir mal défini.
En dépit de toutes les difficultés rencontrées, les 15 sites témoins membres du réseau offrent aujourd'hui des exemples concrets et convaincants qu'une autre façon d'être et de vivre ensemble dans le respect de l'humain et de la nature est possible. Par ailleurs, au cours de ces dernières années nous avons tissé des liens de coopération avec d'autres associations oeuvrant pour les mêmes valeurs et aspirations en France et en Europe. Pierre Rabhi. GEN.