Download e-book for iPad: Drugs 2.0: The Web Revolution That's Changing How the World by Mike Power

By Mike Power

ISBN-10: 1846274591

ISBN-13: 9781846274596

Many years in the past, bargains have been performed in dimly-lit facet streets or at the mobilephone through a pal of a pal. this present day, you could order each available capsule or powder with the press of a mouse. however the on-line industry in narcotics isn't simply altering the way in which medications are received and offered; it's altering the character of substances themselves. Enterprising purchasers are utilizing the internet to have interaction hugely expert overseas chemists to tweak the chemical constructions of banned medicines - barely enough to create an analogous impression, simply enough to render them felony in so much elements of the area. medications reminiscent of mephedrone (aka miaow-miaow) are advertised as 'not for human consumption', yet we all know precisely how they're going for use - what they can't understand is whether or not their use may turn out deadly.

From united kingdom dancefloors to the places of work of apathetic executive officers, through social networking websites and underground labs, Mike strength explores this agile, foreign, digital tradition that would continuously be one step prior to the legislation.

Show description

Read or Download Drugs 2.0: The Web Revolution That's Changing How the World Gets High PDF

Best internet books

Cancel Cable: How Internet Pirates Get Free Stuff by Chris Fehily PDF

What net pirates don't pay for: videos. track. television indicates. educational textbooks. recommendations manuals. grownup video clips. working platforms. note processors. place of work software program suites. artistic software program suites. Language guideline. academic software program. laptop books. comedian books. Anime. Magazines. Cookbooks.

Read e-book online Hacking the Future: Privacy, Identity and Anonymity on the PDF

How does anonymity let loose speech - and the way is it a hazard? "I imagine anonymity on the web has to move away," famously acknowledged through Randi Zuckerberg (sister of Mark), has turn into the coverage for a few, whereas the cease on-line Piracy Act mobilized thousands to write down Congress in protest.

Stryker offers a powerful security of anonymity and explores a number of the instruments and enterprises on the subject of this factor, in particular because it has advanced with the ubiquity of the net. Cogent and compelling, his exam of on-line identities, either fake and genuine, is a vital learn for the social-networking age.

A urged decide for laptop and social matters holdings alike. " — – Midwest publication Review

"A multilayered and well-reasoned retort opposed to all those that could search to erase anonymity from the net … probably the most well-informed examinations of the net on hand at the present time. " — Kirkus Reviews

"[Cole Stryker] makes a compelling case for anonymity (and pseudonymity) utilizing dozens of real-life case reviews. " — The day-by-day Dot

"Stryker offers a robust safeguard of anonymity and explores the various instruments and companies when it comes to this factor, specifically because it has developed with the ubiquity of the net. Cogent and compelling, his exam of on-line identities, either fake and actual, is an important learn for the social-networking age. " — LaughingSquid. com

"Hacking the longer term does an admirable task of laying out the present situation on the web, and it lays a superb foundation for realizing the darker facet of the net, giving its reader a good review of what we should always worry, and what we should always not… no matter if you don’t totally settle for the argument that privateness and anonymity is the first factor for the way forward for the web, Hacking the longer term provides a cohesive argument as to why we should always defend these items regardless. " — TheVerge. com

"Perhaps the easiest a part of Hacking the longer term is an research of what anonymity skill when it comes to its expense, a balancing of the price of what’s hidden opposed to the hassle to conceal and the trouble to unmask. " — long island magazine of Books

Cole Stryker is a contract author and media advisor established in big apple urban. he's the writer of Epic Win for nameless, the 1st ebook to inform the tale of the genesis of the Internet-based protest teams and inventive memes presently altering our international. Stryker has been interviewed approximately his writing by way of the hot York occasions, Reuters, long island Observer, Salon, and The Rumpus.

Johann Höller, Manfred Pils, Robert Zlabinger's Internet und Intranet: Herausforderung E-Business, 3. PDF

Der erste E-Business-Hype liegt hinter uns und dennoch bleibt die Herausforderung für Unternehmen bestehen, sich den zukünftigen Anforderungen des E-Business zu stellen. Dieses Buch zeigt erfolgreiche Anwendungen des digital enterprise anhand konkreter Projekte. Es wird gezeigt, dass seriöse Planung und Vorbereitung auch im Bereich des E-Business unabdingbare Voraussetzungen für den geschäftlichen Erfolg sind.

Download e-book for iPad: Internet der Dinge in der Intralogistik by Michael ten Hompel (auth.), Willibald Günthner, Michael ten

Die imaginative and prescient vom sich selbst steuernden Materialfluss, einem Netzwerk von gleichberechtigten Einheiten, die keine übergeordnete Koordination mehr brauchen, beginnt Gestalt anzunehmen. Experten aus Wissenschaft und Technik fordern ein Umdenken in der Intralogistik: weg von durchgeplanten, vorherbestimmten Systemen, hin zu einem „Internet der Dinge".

Additional info for Drugs 2.0: The Web Revolution That's Changing How the World Gets High

Example text

Düvel, Caroline (2006): Mobilkommunikation in Diasporagemeinschaften: kommunikative Mobilität und Vernetzung junger russischer Migranten in Deutschland. In: Ästhetik & Kommunikation. 37. 73-80. Eckhardt, Josef (2000): Mediennutzungsverhalten von Ausländern in Deutschland. In: Schatz/Holtz-Bacha/Nieland (2000): 265-271. Esser, Hartmut (2000): Assimilation, Integration und ethnische Konflikte. Können sie durch ‚Kommunikation’ beeinflusst werden? In: Schatz/Holtz-Bacha/Nieland (2000): 25-37. Digitale Medien, Migration und Diaspora 47 Faßler, Manfred (2001): Kulturen ohne Land?

Die Abgrenzung von Nationalstaaten aufgrund ihrer Territorialität wird dadurch in Frage gestellt; das Internet liefert einen zusätzlichen Beitrag zur Kohäsion und Aufrechterhaltung der kulturellen Gruppe sowie zur Integration ihrer Mitglieder. indian (sci) im Jahr 1995 deutlich. Wenn sie zu dem Schluss kommt, dass die Mitglieder der indischen Diaspora das Internet zunehmend benutzen, „to re-create a sense of virtual community through a rediscovery of their commonality“ (Mitra 1997: 58), dann weist sie darauf hin, dass die sci-group-Mitglieder ein Gemeinschaftsgefühl zum Ausdruck bringen, das auf ihrer Bewusstheit eines gemeinsamen Herkunftslandes Indien basiert.

Es geht mir also um eine Perspektive, die stärker als in den beiden anderen Kategorien die Frage der hybriden Identitätsbildung in Bezug auf einen mehrwertigen Zugehörigkeitskontext thematisiert bzw. in den Mittelpunkt stellt. Als einen wichtigen empirischen Vorläufer zähle ich die ethnografische Untersuchung von Daniel Miller und Don Slater (2000) über die Kultur der Menschen in Trinidad und ihrer Diasporagruppen, die allerdings weniger auf den Aspekt des doppel- oder mehrwertigen Kontextes als auf den der Entwicklung eines „neuen“ Selbst-Verständnisses mithilfe des Internets abhebt.

Download PDF sample

Drugs 2.0: The Web Revolution That's Changing How the World Gets High by Mike Power


by Paul
4.1

Rated 4.78 of 5 – based on 18 votes