Rebane's Ruminations

About

January 2026
S M T W T F S
 123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
25262728293031

ARCHIVES

OUR LINKS

YubaNet
White House Blog
Watts Up With That?
The Union
Sierra Thread
RL “Bob” Crabb
Barry Pruett Blog

Category: Web/Tech

  • BB6 is in the can – A conversation with Sheriff Keith Royal

    George Rebane Tonight we recorded the sixth edition of Breaking Bread at the NCTV studios.  BB6 may be the last program recorded at the former Grass Valley Group facility since the station is undergoing a transition which involves moving to new quarters for the new year.  I hosted the program in which we introduced a…

  • Ruminations – 19nov13 (updated)

    “Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them… well, I have others.”  Groucho Marx George Rebane It turns out that the Census Bureau faked the 2012 pre-election jobs report.  That is reported by zerohedge.com, Armstrong & Getty on AM650, and the National Review.  The list of underhanded things that Team Obama did to…

  • Ruminations – 13oct13 (updated)

    George Rebane NSA strikes deeper into our lives.  The IEEE reported last week that NIST has compromised its random number algorithm to our nation’s electronic spymasters.  Specifically – The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has an image problem. Last month, revelations surfaced indicating that the National Security Agency (NSA) may have planted a…

  • Time to Live Forever?

    George Rebane A number of emails, articles, and recent announcements came together that made me again revisit the notion of man’s dream of physical immortality.  What if there were developed a pill that would genomically and/or proteomically rejuvenate a person, and taking such a pill every so many years would keep him going indefinitely?  It…

  • Rise of the New Upper Class

    George Rebane [This is the appended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 30 August 2013.] In these commentaries we have examined major trends like systemic unemployment, income inequality, and the notion of a Great Divide that may rend America across one of its ideological faults.  In this installment I’ll briefly summarize a schism…

  • Nevada County’s Collaborative Technology Center

    George Rebane [This is the transcript of my 16aug13 KVMR radio commentary, plus a couple of snapshots.] Last Tuesday I attended the opening of the Nevada County Library’s Collaborative Technology Center or CTC.  The ribbon to the new 2,000 square foot facility was cut by country librarian Jessica Hudson after a few attending dignitaries had…

  • Approaches to Effective Education (updated 7aug13)

    George Rebane Our long lament with America’s education systems continues.  I was reminded of it again by a report on the entrepreneurial approach to teaching students that is rampant in South Korea.  There kids go to school during the day, and at night after coming home they go back to school, alebeit of a different…

  • Machines and Minders and Systemic Unemployment

    George Rebane Automation and advanced digital technologies are eliminating the need for people in a growing number of jobs.  We’ve survived severe technological change before but this time it might be different: are we facing a future of dismal job opportunities, stagnant income, and worsening inequality?  Are we headed for chronic unemployment?  So asks ‘How…

  • Collecting and Connecting the Dots (Addended)(updated 3jul13)

    George Rebane Head of the National Security Agency, General Keith Alexander, goes in front of a closed doors congressional panel today.  They will quiz him about what data the NSA and other intelligence agencies can collect, have been collecting, and plan to collect on Americans.  He will tell them about the threats thwarted through the…

  • Online Education Promoting More Inequality? (updated 1jun13)

    George Rebane [This is the transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 31 May 2013.  This and previous commentaries are also available on the KVMR website.] Information systems professor Larry Press of CalState Dominguez Hills recently asked the question ‘Are poor students excluded from online education?’  In this commentary and on my blog the…

RR FUNDAMENTALS

About the Bastiat Triangle

Glossary & Semantics

A Conservetarian Credo

Commenting Rules

RECENT POSTS

RECENT COMMENTS

CATEGORIES