http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/information/ en-us Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:04:06 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408317/posts Americans are known for gorging on food, but we're also gluttons of another sort: A new study finds that the average American consumes more than 34 gigabytes of video, music and words a day-and that's only on our free time. One byte of information is equivalent to one letter of text. One gigabyte is equal to roughly 8 minutes of high definition video. Thirty-four gigabytes of data would fit on about 7 DVD disks or 1.5 Blu-ray disks. A mix of old and new media contribute to our daily information diet, the study finds, including TV, radio, books, the Internet,... Yahoo News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408317/posts#comment Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:04:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404772/posts Last February I mentioned the events that would commemorate the life and work of Charles Darwin in 2009. I had no idea at the time that I would be invited to participate in one of these events. But there I was, precisely 150 years after On the Origin of Species first appeared, seated with other scientists in front of a packed room that featured, among other interesting things, a life-sized model of a baleen whale. The venue was the National Museum of Natural History in Stuttgart, Germany, and the occasion was a panel discussion titled Design without a Designer? [1]... Biologic Institute http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404772/posts#comment Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:03:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403796/posts December 7th, 2009 3:29 pmDirective Number 9 During the Algerian war, the terrorists promulgated an order which with variations would provide the backbone doctrine for information warfare into the 21st century. Dr. Cori Dauber, the author of the SSI monograph “The YouTube War: Fighting in a World of Cameras in Every Cell Phone and Photoshop on Every Computer” describes the ground zero of the modern information Jihad. The AlgeriansÂ’ “Directive Number Nine” argued that it was better to kill one man where the American press would hear of it than nine where no one would find out. What Khattab realized... Belmont Club http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403796/posts#comment Wed, 9 Dec 2009 16:54:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402578/posts The current treatment of young-age creationists in the scientific community and society at large is unfair and unwise. Scientists and philosophers of science, including old-age creationists and naturalists, should respect youngage creationists as legitimate contributors to science. Young-age creationists offer to the current origins science establishment a competing rational viewpoint that will augment fruitful scientific investigation through increased accountability for scientists, introduction of original hypotheses and general epistemic improvement... Journal of Creation http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402578/posts#comment Tue, 8 Dec 2009 03:30:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2318474/posts Here is but the latest act of submission to Islam by your State Department. A State Department cable has just been sent out with this announcement: The Bureau of International Information Programs (IIP) has assembled a range of innovative and traditional tools to support Posts' outreach activities during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. Here, in contrast, is the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble,... AmericanThinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2318474/posts#comment Tue, 18 Aug 2009 05:19:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2308401/posts BOSTON (AP) -- When Shanghai blogger Isaac Mao tried to watch a YouTube clip of Chinese police beating Tibetans, all he got was an error message... ...Mao thought the error -- just after the one-year anniversary of a crackdown on Tibetan protesters in China -- was too suspicious to be coincidental, so he reported it on a new Harvard-based Web site that tracks online censorship... ...Zittrain started Herdict in February -- a month before China's block began -- to aggregate reports of online inaccessibility and help users detect government censorship on the Web as soon as it happens. Having tracked... Technology Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2308401/posts#comment Wed, 5 Aug 2009 01:45:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2307435/posts U.S. IT providers continue to push jobs offshore, while Indian firms work to refine the amount of work they complete overseas. Although Congress may force the Indian firms to hire more Americans -- and Indian companies have been telling investors that they may have to indeed do that -- the change won't likely affect the overall trend and the shift in jobs outside the U.S. Okay, so where are U.S. jobs going? What's the data show? Data prepared by Everest Group Inc., a research and outsourcing consulting firm, shows in broad brush fashion the shift of jobs overseas by some... Computer World http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2307435/posts#comment Mon, 3 Aug 2009 22:06:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2291197/posts Cass Sunstein, a Harvard law professor and friend to the national Messiah, has been tapped to head the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. The Wall Street Journal has reported that Sunstein was one of the major influences on a young Obama’s attitudes on government regulation and economics, a scary proposition considering the degree to which the Obama administration is attempting to pull us toward Soviet-style communism. According to the Journal, many of those familiar with Sunstein’s work and philosophy have said that his fingerprints are obvious in many of the administration’s policies, including credit card reform and... The Constitutional Alamo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2291197/posts#comment Mon, 13 Jul 2009 02:45:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2269143/posts Note: The following text is a quote: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/Transparency-Access-to-Information/ THE BRIEFING ROOM • THE BLOG WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10TH, 2009 AT 6:34 PM Transparency: Access to Information Posted by Michael Fitzpatrick The Federal government is the largest single producer, collector, consumer, and disseminator of information in the United States. Providing meaningful access to this information is a key goal of President Obama’s Open Government Initiative. As part of the Open Government Initiative, the President tasked Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Peter Orszag with issuing an Open Government Directive to Federal agencies. The OMB Directive will be informed by recommendations being... WHITEHOUSE.GOV http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2269143/posts#comment Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:23:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2257457/posts News to Note, May 23, 2009: A weekly feature examining news from the biblical viewpoint (READ THE FOLLOWING STORIES AND MUCH MORE BY CLICKING THE EXCERPT LINK AT BOTTOM) 1. ICR: “‘Missing Link’ Ida Is Just Media Hype”The news media has been awash this week in hype over an alleged missing link fossil nicknamed Ida. As it turns out, the fossil wasn’t fraudulent, but the hype definitely was. 2. The Telegraph: “New ‘Super Rats’ Evolve Resistance to Poison”Is this “super rat” an example of evolution in action, or the result of an information-reducing mutation? 3. Gallup: “More Americans ‘Pro-Life’ than... AiG http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2257457/posts#comment Sun, 24 May 2009 20:48:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2252236/posts Chapter 12: Life Requires a Source of Information by Dr. Werner Gitt May 14, 2009 The common factor present in all living organisms, from bacteria to man, is the information contained in all their cells. It has been discovered that nowhere else can a higher statistical packing density of information (see appendix A1.2.3) be found. The information present in living systems falls in the category of “operational information” as discussed in chapter 7. This information is exactly tuned in to the infinitude of life processes and situations, and its origin can be ascribed to creative constructional information (chapter 7). The... AiG http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2252236/posts#comment Sat, 16 May 2009 15:13:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2245068/posts In the Beginning was Information: Some Quantitative Evaluations of Semantics (Ch 10) by Dr. Werner Gitt We can now begin to evaluate semantic information quantitatively, after having considered the essentials at the semantics level in the preceding chapters... AiG http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2245068/posts#comment Wed, 6 May 2009 03:09:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2243431/posts Marklevinshow.com (archived shows as well) Live from 6-8 Eastern RushLimbaugh.com Glennbeck.com I'm sorry folks but these sources actually 'cite' sources and what is happening. Mark Levin, although somewhat abrasive, is a constitutional lawyer and is right-on with his http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2243431/posts#comment Mon, 4 May 2009 00:33:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2242814/posts News to Note, May 2, 2009A weekly feature examining news from the biblical viewpoint (Read the following stories, and much more by clicking excerpt link at the bottom) 1. LiveScience: “Swine Flu Is Evolution in Action”Swine flu—both the virus itself and the associated paranoia—seems to be sweeping the world. Is it evolution in action? 2. LiveScience: “Some Dinosaurs Survived the Asteroid Impact”The widely taught model of dinosaur extinction doesn’t line up with the latest fossil findings. 3. National Geographic News: “Baby Mammoth CT Scan Reveals Internal Organs”The preserved baby woolly mammoth shows that it died in an “oxygen-deprived environment” that... AiG http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2242814/posts#comment Sat, 2 May 2009 18:41:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2242541/posts Having been following the Swine Flu / H1N1 outbreak for some time, I thought it would be interesting to put together a reference to the various State home pages, as well as references to their Department of Health. It was an elightening experience. Had this been a biological warfare, there are some things that the States could do to make it easier to share information. First, finding the various State home pages was not necessarily straight forward. Using Google, for example, State Universities trumped State Government web pages in the links ranking and it took some digging to find the... Freerepublic http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2242541/posts#comment Sat, 2 May 2009 04:17:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2238611/posts Does Instant Information Promote Market Efficiency? April-26-2009 I have been reading the updated sixth edition of Security Analysis from cover to cover and on more than one occasion, I have stopped to consider the major advantages modern day investors have compared to Graham and Dodd. Investors today have access to a wealth of information that Benjamin Graham lacked during his career. However, more widespread information also would theoretically lead to more market efficiency and reduce opportunities to find mispriced securities. Is it true that the market is more efficient due to the widespread dissemination of information made possible by the... Guru Focus http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2238611/posts#comment Mon, 27 Apr 2009 11:24:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2226395/posts Information accosts us from all sides and presents itself over a wide range of manifestations: —From messages pounded out by drums in the jungle to telephone conversations by means of communications satellites. —From the computer-controlled processes for producing synthetic materials to the adaptive control of rolling mills. —In printed form from telephone directories to the Bible. —From the technical drawings which specify the construction of a gas-driven engine to the circuit diagram of a large scale integrated computer chip. —From the hormonal system of an organism to the navigational instincts of migrating birds. —From the genome of a bacterium to... AiG http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2226395/posts#comment Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:59:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2221207/posts Information in Living Organisms Theorem 28: There is no known law of nature, no known process, and no known sequence of events which can cause information to originate by itself in matter... (for remainder, click link below) AiG http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2221207/posts#comment Fri, 3 Apr 2009 02:05:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2216201/posts ... We can now formulate two fundamental properties of information: Property 1: Information is not the thing itself, neither is it a condition, but it is an abstract representation of material realities or conceptual relationships, such as problem formulations, ideas, programs, or algorithms. The representation is in a suitable coding system and the realities could be objects or physical, chemical, or biological conditions. The reality being represented is usually not present at the time and place of the transfer of information, neither can it be observed or measured at that moment. Property 2: Information always plays a substitutionary role. The... AiG http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2216201/posts#comment Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:21:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2212274/posts In the Beginning was Information: The Five Levels of the Information Concept ...Because of the philosophical bias, both information and life itself are regarded as purely material phenomena in the evolutionary view. The origin and the nature of life is reduced to physical-chemical causes. In the words of Jean B. de Lamarck (1744–1829), “Life is merely a physical phenomenon. All manifestations of life are based on mechanical, physical, and chemical causes, being properties of organic matter” (Philosophie Zoologique, Paris, 1809, Vol. 1, p. 104 f). The German evolutionist Manfred Eigen expressed a similar view [E2, p. 149]: “The logic of... AiG http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2212274/posts#comment Sun, 22 Mar 2009 23:12:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2205290/posts 3.1 Information: A Fundamental Quantity The trail-blazing discoveries about the nature of energy in the 19th century caused the first technological revolution, when manual labor was replaced on a large scale by technological appliances—machines which could convert energy. In the same way, knowledge concerning the nature of information in our time initiated the second technological revolution where mental “labor” is saved through the use of technological appliances—namely, data processing machines. The concept “information” is not only of prime importance for informatics theories and communication techniques, but it is a fundamental quantity in such wide-ranging sciences as cybernetics, linguistics, biology,... AiG http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2205290/posts#comment Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:23:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2195448/posts Preliminary Remarks about the Concept of Information by Dr. Werner Gitt February 26, 2009 By way of introduction, we shall consider a few systems and repeatedly ask the question: What is the reason that such a system can function? 1. The web of a spider: In Figure 1 we see a section of a web of a spider, a Cyrtophora in this case. The mesh size is approximately 0.8 x 1.2 mm. The circle in the left picture indicates the part which has been highly magnified by an electron microscope to provide the right picture. The design and structure of... AiG http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2195448/posts#comment Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:26:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2192186/posts Hi everyone, Please check out a new grassroots activism site that I'm trying to build up which would work off of a "cell/viral" model. There is also a FREE weekly newsletter that several others and myself (including some FReepers) are involved with. Please sign up if you'd like the free .pdf newsletter (printable and forwardable - both of which are encouraged). http://conservativesunderground.us/index.html Thanks! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2192186/posts#comment Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:33:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2173173/posts The Congressional Budget Office has released their analysis of the House version of the stimulus bill (H.R. 1). You can read the full analysis in PDF form here, but we thought it would be useful to take some of the budget numbers in the analysis and present them in chart format. Shown below are several different views of the how the dollars for H.R. 1 would be spent over time. Most striking is that in total, the CBO estimates that less than 21% of the funds would be spent in 2009. Apparently, it is a huge crisis which requires swift... Read the Stimulus http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2173173/posts#comment Wed, 28 Jan 2009 03:17:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2172630/posts <p>“The commonly cited case for intelligent design appeals to: (a) the irreducible complexity of (b) some aspects of life. But complex arguments invite complex refutations (valid or otherwise), and the claim that only some aspects of life are irreducibly complex implies that others are not, and so the average person remains unconvinced. Here I use another principle—autopoiesis (self-making)—to show that all aspects of life lie beyond the reach of naturalistic explanations. Autopoiesis provides a compelling case for intelligent design in three stages: (i) autopoiesis is universal in all living things, which makes it a pre-requisite for life, not an end product of natural selection; (ii) the inversely-causal, information-driven, structured hierarchy of autopoiesis is not reducible to the laws of physics and chemistry; and (iii) there is an unbridgeable abyss between the dirty, mass-action chemistry of the natural environmental and the perfectly-pure, single-molecule precision of biochemistry.”</p> self http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2172630/posts#comment Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:59:07 GMT