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Neuros MPEG4 Recorder does what it promises to do well, but there's room for improvement Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

One of the things I really like about Neuros is that it comes from a group of developers with an open-source philosophy. There is an entire developer community building up around this device, and the source code is available and always being improved. So this is the opposite of the Sony BMG people, who believe that nothing should be shared and everything should be proprietary. The fact that Neuros is an open-source community product makes it far more interesting. One of the features sorely missing from this product is a customizable time limit on the recording.

Kevin Miller's New "Generation Rx" Documentary Exposes Mass Betrayal of Children by FDA, Big Pharma Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Note of hope: There is one peer-reviewed medical journal that remains honest and publishes good medical science: PLoS Medicine, an open-source journal that accepts no advertising from drug companies...) The simple truth, as the film reveals, is that money buys everything in this modern economy. It buys media coverage, it buys distorted science, it buys legislation, and it even buys the very definitions of disease.

Review: The Future of Food, a must-see documentary that exposes the biotech threat to life on our planet Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

We believe in consumer rights, open-source intellectual property and the protection of nature. We're radical thinkers who support radical changes to create a sustainable future founded on consumer freedom, liberty and education.

Mainstream media criticizes Wikipedia because it represents a decentralization of their information monopoly Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Thumbs up to Wikipedia, the Public Library of Science (PLoS journals) and other open-source projects that engage readers and decentralize information rather than trying to dictate it.

It's an open-source site, so it doesn't have to appease corporate interests. It doesn't have an agenda and it certainly doesn't try to appease advertisers. It doesn't have centralized political control, either -- the White House can't call them up and demand that a story be yanked. That's why Wikipedia is almost always neutral on the issues. And that makes it more accurate than mainstream information sources. The democratization of information Wikipedia is about the decentralization of information; it's about the democratization of fact gathering and fact reporting.

What's ahead in 2007 for NewsTarget, an update from Mike Adams Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Our open-source health solutions website, InFiveSteps.com, continues to grow, and we'll be adding substantial new content to it in the months ahead. Readers have posted several new solutions, such as How to protect yourself from electropollution by Lynn Pepple. If you're interested in posting a five-step solution that shares your wisdom with the world, you may use this posting form. All Five Step Solutions that we accept get promoted via related NewsTarget articles. All this and more!

Doctors still fail to recognize healing power of foods, nutrition and supplements Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

But the truth is that nature provides all the medicine we really need, and it's available as open-source medicine from plants, with no royalties, no patents and no profiteering monopolistic prices. Food, herbs and supplements are our best medicine. The healthiest people in our society already know that. But sadly, most doctors still do not. It's as if they were attempting to create French cuisine but only had the experience of microwaving a bowl of macaroni and cheese.

Study "Disproving" Mercury-Autism Link Published in Journal with Financial Ties to Vaccine Manufacturers Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

The only truly honest, independent, peer-reviewed medical journal operating today is PLoS Medicine, an open-source journal that takes no money from drug companies. Notice that the autism/mercury link study did not appear in PLoS Medicine? No, it had to be published with a home field advantage in a pro-drug publication that maintains a strong bias in favor of pharmaceuticals and chemicals.

Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century Alex Steffen See book keywords and concepts

If not, the person who proposed it is free to take the open-source software and start their own version—as long as anyone who wants to can look at and propose changes to their code. This collaborative and nonproprietary approach to building software has caused a technological upheaval in the last few years. It turns out that a whole bunch of smart people collaborating in an open and noncommercial manner can do things that even huge corporations and government agencies have a hard time doing.

Co-founder of the open-source peer-to-peer software company OpenCola, he presently serves on numerous boards including Technorati's. In 2006/2007, he will serve as the Fulbright Chair at the Annenberg Center for Public Diplomacy at the University of Southern California. Cory's novels are published by Tor Books and simultaneously released on the Internet under Creative Commons licenses. JOSHUA ELLIS [JE] Joshua Ellis is a writer, Web designer, and musician.

Not only do such disruptions render the state unable to deliver those services that are the foundation of its legitimacy, but they create an unstable environment that prompts more groups to enter the open-source war, on either side. Systems disruption is easy (we have too many networks Opposite, left: Indians and Pakistanis work together to deploy relief tents to victims of the 2005 earthquake in Kashmir, a disputed area between the two countries. Opposite, right: Insurgents in Fallujah, Iraq, take up position to launch mortars against U.S. troops, 2004.

These substates have developed a new method of warfare that uses nonhierarchi-cal forms of organization very much like what we see in the open-source software community. Open source-style warfare is highly decentralized. It allows many groups, regardless of motive, to coordinate and mutually advance against common enemies. In Iraq, which is increasingly the laboratory for this century's new war, seventy-five to a hundred different insurgent groups are fighting the U.S. military, its coalition partners, and the new Iraqi government with a considerable amount of success.

Such a phone might even be built by its users, spinning off from current open-source mobile-phone design projects. The Earth Phone Web site would mix what you witness with what thousands or millions of other people around the world witness. It would give us far better knowledge of what's happening on our planet environmentally than could be gathered with satellites and the handful of government and academic sensor networks alone. As we work to figure out ways to mitigate the worst effects of climate disruption, every little bit of information matters.

NewsTarget survey results, part 2: Healthy actions = healthy results Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

I think that's a phenomenal number, and I know that if the antidepressant drug manufacturers could see this report, they would be alarmed to learn that simple, open-source health information is helping people overcome depression without dangerous, expensive prescription drugs. Eleven point six percent reported receiving praise from their doctor for making positive health changes.

I'm a believer in the open-source movement, and I believe that information about health should be made freely available to anyone, so that they can search for solutions to their health problems and educate themselves on what to do better. That stance is something that scares organized medicine half to death, because it recognizes that if people really knew how easy it was to prevent chronic disease, reverse cancer, or replace dangerous prescription drugs with natural alternatives, then organized medicine would utterly collapse overnight.

Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century Alex Steffen See book keywords and concepts

Brazil's Telecentras mmmm If we want to understand why open-source software and cheaper computers are important to the future of emerging megacities, we need look no farther than Sao Paulo, Brazil. There, in some of the poorest slums in Latin America, an innovative project has created more than a hundred free community computing centers, or telecentras, which are connecting locals to the Internet—and changing their lives. Residents can use the centers for up to an hour a day to learn new skills, hunt for jobs, access community services, and keep in touch with distant relatives and friends.

Neuros MPEG4 Recorder does what it promises to do well, but there's room for improvement Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

The company that brings it to you has a good open-source philosophy and a commitment to improving the product. The hardware itself is fine. The interface is clunky and the remote needs some improvements, but overall, if you're just looking to rip some movies to your PlayStation portable, this is a solid product. It does what it promises to do and it doesn't even require a PC. Just don't expect it to go beyond ripping videos for portable video devices. I give this device three stars, and I hope to be able to give it more stars in the future as the product continues to improve.

The fact that Neuros is an open-source community product makes it far more interesting. One of the features sorely missing from this product is a customizable time limit on the recording. There is a feature where you can limit your recording to one hour, two hours, or three hours, but those are the only choices. What if you have a movie that is 97 minutes? I don't want to have to sit there viewing it for 97 minutes so that I can hit stop.

The iRiver PMP-100 series: A product with the typical strengths and weaknesses of Korean technology Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

In fact, the best firmware is developed by open-source developers who don't even work for the company, like the Rock Box project that you can see at RockBox.org. Chances are, the Rock Box firmware will be far better than anything iRiver will develop. Is there anything good about the iRiver PM-100 series? Yes, the battery life is much longer than that of the current iPods that play video, for example. You can get several hours of video out of these units, which gives you more opportunities to watch Brad Pitt's mouth move.

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