THE DEFIANT WAR; When it began three years ago, few people could have anticipated that the combat in Iraq would last so long or that the enemy would become a stubborn and resilient insurgency

The San Francisco ChronicleOn the third anniversary of the beginning of war in the harsh environment of Iraq, the physical well-being of U.S. forces seems far better than the state of the ethical health of our country's military and civilian leadership

The Dangers of Military Robots, the Risks of Online Voting

The article of record as published may be located at http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2771281John Arquilla considers the evolution of defense drones, and why Duncan A. Buell thinks we are not ready for e-voting

9/11: Yesterday and tomorrow; How we could lose the war on terror

The San Francisco ChronicleThe war on terror has become a global intifada, but despite our all- out commitment we're not much safer than before 9-11. As the conflict enters its third year, the greatest threat is that our failure to cripple al Qaeda and its allies will inspire the rise of even more terror networks. The dark, looming specter is the possibility that 10 years from now, there will be 10 al Qaedas -- fanatical, highly organized and well disciplined terror networks, some of them in secret service to rogue (or maybe not-so-roguish) nations that really do possess weapons of mass destruction

Sustaining and enabling territorial resilience through making actions. The Make in Progress case study.

The recent evolution of production models within urban context shows a possible scenario characterized by new interactions between design-driven innovation, making, creativity and social innovation. The paper analyses this scenario combined with the idea of Territorial Capital as a model to study a specific territory (EU Leader Project; 1999)1 by looking at a case study : Make in Progress, which explores new models of interaction between creative industries, makers, DIY people, artisan and SMEs within urban area and industrial district. The goal of this paper is to analyze how the phenomenon of Open Creative Lab (Ibert, 2015)2 can contribute to the resilience of the territories and how unexpected localized creative communities could emerge. To answer this question the paper focuses on the relationship and the potential of social innovation and service design (Meroni-Sangiorgi,20113; Stickdorn-Schneider,20124) in the territorial enhancement processes, through the making. In this case, the making gets the role of enabler in development of the territorial capital (Arquilla-Bianchini-Maffei-Carelli,20145), becoming from a purpose, as it often happens in most of the process of creation of making places such as fablab and makerspaces (Walter,20146; Gershenfeld,20077), to a real opportunity to be used to make the most interesting characteristics of a territory emerge: people and their capabilities. In detail, the case study of MakeinProgress (MiP) will be analyzed as an applied case of this theory. MIP is born from a real opportunity from the territory: the architectural recovery of the space of a former Filanda, totally funded by local and supralocal authorities by a process of public financing, in the beginning started as incubator and later converted by the intervention of design. We analyzed the territory, defined possible scenario, verified the applicability of this scenario by isolating potential of the area, modified and adapted scenario to the real potential of territory coming to set up an experimental model of action (MiP as demo service). Thanks to this activities was demonstrate how a laboratory in the suburbs, a suburb that did not imagine a possible development in creativity, acts as empowering latent elements showing unexpected capabilities and resilience

In the fight against terrorism, the long war is the wrong war; Sooner or later, terrorists will get, and use, WMD

The San Francisco ChronicleThe war on terror may require a long, long time, as the Bush administration insists, but time is not on our side. Continuing attempts by the administration to make a virtue of the prospect of a drawn-out conflict only encourage mistaken thinking. For if the war does last decades, our chances of losing it rise dramatically

A better way to fight the war on terror; Mobile 'hunter networks' are the right strategy to combat guerrilla fighters

The San Francisco ChronicleThe movement of U.S. troops rotating into and out of Iraq is an eye- catching logistical ballet, but the repositioning of U.S. special forces teams around the world merits more attention. In their potential impact on the course of the war on terror, these elite "hunter networks" can better carry the fight directly to al Qaeda and its affiliates, ripping them apart cell by cell

Where's Osama this election?

The San Francisco ChronicleThe silence coming from the caves is deafening. Having toppled the sitting Spanish government by staging an attack in Madrid days before an election in March 2004, and apparently helping George W. Bush win re-election in November of that year - thanks to the timely release of an oddly meditative videotape - Osama bin Laden seems to be sitting this one out

A Designer A Day 2013

A designer A day Il famoso detto “una mela al giorno …” si trasforma in “un designer/progetto al giorno”, da cui il titolo dell’iniziativa. Una mostra/evento di una settimana, durante il Solone del Mobile con il supporto de La Trentina. Un progetto di selezione abbinato ad un concorso internazionale realizzato in modalità last minutes. Giovani designer, selezionati da un’apposita giuria, hanno avuto l’opportunità di essere protagonisti per un giorno presentando un proprio progetto all’interno di uno spazio espositivo preallestito e personalizzabile. I temi di questa edizione erano "autoproduzione" e "vivere sostenibile". Sono stati selezionati 11 progetti di designer/autoproduttori italiani e stranieri: Sanserif Creatius & Sara Sorribes – Moments Collettivo Buscai-_-minimal-Crist Pace, Forcellini, Mennella – Pronto intervento Filippo Franchi – Sedia Walter DesignSottoscala_Affumicatore_02 Ivdesign – Appendino Francesca Romei – GR_EGG _egg separator P. UNO – ITER MINO_copertina_Giovanni_Tomasini_DESIGN Giovanni Tomasini – Mino Laura Rovida – Eco intrecci Simone Guida – Evoluzione di forme vegetal

Just cyber war?: Casus belli, information ethics, and the human perspective

Does the advent of cyber-war require us to abandon the traditional ethical framework for thinking about the morality of warfare - just war theory - and develop principles specific to the unique nature of cyber-attacks? Or can just war theory still provide an appropriate basis for thinking through the ethical issues raised by cyber-weapons? This article explores these questions via the issue of whether a cyber-attack can constitute a casus belli. The first half of the paper critically engages with recent attempts to provide a new theory of just information warfare (JIW) that is supposedly better suited to the unique character of cyber war insofar as it is grounded the broader meta-ethical framework of information ethics (IE). Yet the paper argues that not only is JIW fundamentally unsuitable as a way of thinking about cyber-war, but (in the second half) that it is possible to develop a different account of how we can understand a cyber-attack as constituting a casus belli in a way that is in keeping with traditional just war theory. In short, there is no need to reinvent just war theory for the digital age