August 2010 – Page 16 – Public Intelligence Blog

Ranking Corporations for Open Source Support

by Jason

My Rankings

Again, in the context of corporations, I would rank some commonly mentioned entities as follows:

Red Hat
Mandriva
Canonical
Google
IBM
Oracle
Apple (Below here is active harm)
Novell
Microsoft

Phi Beta Iota: The author was reacting to a very strong negative comment on Google, both the spark and the fire are worth reading. Our view is unequivocal: Google is evil. We support Open Everything, but especially Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS), Open Source Intelligence (OSINT), and Open Spectrum.

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Journal: Bill Gates Has Blinding Flash of Insight

04 Education

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Bill Gates: In Five Years The Best Education Will Come From The Web

August 9, 2010

Source: TechCrunch — Aug 6, 2010

“Five years from now on the web for free you’ll be able to find the best lectures in the world,” says Bill Gates. “It will be better than any single university.”

He believes the $50,000 a year university education could be done via the web for as little as $2,000.

Phi Beta Iota: Duh. It comes down to political integrity–creating measures of learning rather than selling credentials. This will be a race to the bottom among universities, and a race from the bottom among restless poor people savvy enough to hack the Internet and use it as a lever to redirect both democracy and capitalism back toward the common good. This is of course what both Amazon (World Brain Brief) and Google (Googlization of Intelligence Brief versus Do MORE Evil) should have been doing all along, but on an Open Everything standard.

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Journal: Traitor to Some, Hero to Others

10 Security, 11 Society, InfoOps (IO), Journalism/Free-Press/Censorship, Officers Call, Open Government, Secrecy & Politics of Secrecy

Marcus-Aurelius-150x150 — Marcus Aurelius Recommends

(COMMENT: Really too bad that individuals like this are entitled to Constitutional protections… If he in fact compromised assets, as I have read in open press, they will be lucky if all the Taliban does is shoot them.)

Washington Post
August 14, 2010
Pg. 2

Army Analyst Celebrated As Antiwar Hero

Many rally to soldier's defense after disclosure of classified documents

By Michael W. Savage

For antiwar campaigners from Seattle to Iceland, a new name has become a byword for anti-establishment heroism: Army Pfc. Bradley E. Manning.

Manning, a 22-year-old intelligence analyst, is suspected of leaking thousands of classified documents about the Afghanistan war to the Web site WikiLeaks.

FULL STORY ONLINE

Phi Beta Iota: This needs to be evaluated at multiple levels.

Continue reading “Journal: Traitor to Some, Hero to Others”

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Search: “the central problem of our time” Steele

About the Idea, Officers Call, Searches

Journal: Politics & Intelligence–Partners Only When Integrity is Central to Both

Robert Steele as posted 13 October 2009. The below paragraph is cited in Kent C. Myers, Reflexive Practice: Professional Thinking for a Turbulent World (New York, NY: Palgrave McMillan, 2010); p. 86.

The central problem of our time is the failure of human organization–its failure to scale, to adapt, to assimilate.

We believe the failure stems directly from a rejection of diversity and a falsification of feedback loops–the absence of integrity.

We’ve come to the conclusion that the discord between politics and intelligence is contrived–there is no inherent opposition between politics (choice of best path for all) and intelligence (presentation of best achievable truth for all) provided ONE condition is met: integrity among the majority of individuals engaged in each.

If intelligence loses its integrity and allows itself to be politicized or worse, ignored, then intelligence fails. Similarly, if politics loses its integrity and overplays the secrecy card while also shutting out the diversity of views that are essential to achieving a sustainable consensus, then politics fails.

2010 PhD Author Dissects Intelligence Reformer Robert Steele [Click on Cartoon for 5 Pages]

About the Idea, Ethics, Hacking, Officers Call, Worth A Look

brain-surgery humor — CLICK HERE For Myers on Steele 5 Pages

As published in Kent C. Myers, Reflexive Practice: Professional Thinking for a Turbulent World (New York, NY: Palgrave McMillan, 2010); pp. 82-86.

Cartoon Credit: Inebriated Press also quoted below

My first post was on June 21, 2007: “Mad Cows Terrorize London“ For all I know they still do.

PS: Hang tough and live your beliefs. Remember what Edmund Burke said:

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”

Phi Beta Iota: Alvin Toffler in “The Future of the Spy” (1993) and Anthony Kimery in “Vet with a Vision” (2009) are the precursors to Dr. Myers' definitive dissection. Browse the many items in About the Idea for a broad overview. The concluding quote from Steele by Myers can be found at Journal: Politics & Intelligence–Partners Only When Integrity is Central to Both as posted 13 October 2009.