SGT REPORT: ENEMY AT THE FRONT DOOR
Academia, Civil Society, Commerce, Government, Law Enforcement, Media, Military, Non-Governmental, Peace IntelligenceStephen E. Arnold: Journal Subscription Doomsday
Collective Intelligence, Commerce, Corruption, Ineptitude, IO Impotency
Journal Subscription Doomsday Is Upon Us
China might have the great firewall when it comes to blocking access, but another infamous digital wall is the great academic paywall a.k.a. subscription paywalls that block access to scientific and academic journals. That could all be changing. Researchers everywhere are shocking and gasping at the thought of have free access to expensive research materials. Could this be the sound of celebration? Nature fills us in on the details in the story, “Radical Open-Access Plan Could Spell End To Journal Subscriptions.” Continue reading “Stephen E. Arnold: Journal Subscription Doomsday”
Stephen E. Arnold: Amazon Police State Stuff….
Advanced Cyber/IO, Commerce, Corruption, Government, IO Impotency, Law EnforcementAmazon Police State Stuff, employees rebel, some good news (Amazon misrepresents…)
I have been following the Amazon response to employee demands to cut off the US government. Put that facial recognition technology on “ice.” The issue is an intriguing one; for example, Rekognition plugs into DeepLens. DeepLens connects with Sagemaker. The construct allows some interesting policeware functions.
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Yoda: Researcher Jailed After Uncovering Deadly Virus Delivered Through Human Vaccines — CORRECTED
07 Health, 07 Other Atrocities, 10 Transnational Crime, Commerce, Corruption, Earth Intelligence, Government
A credible refutation of this post has become available.
Was a Scientist Jailed After Discovering a Deadly Virus Delivered Through Vaccines?
Stephen E. Arnold: Amazon Global TakeOver Removing Open Source Plums from the Marketplace
Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Corruption, IO ImpotencyAmazon: Global Takeover to Leverage the Cloud
From bookstores to grocery stores to even video stores, we have gotten used to the idea that Amazon is impossible to stop once it begins in a new market. However, some folks re worried about a market that Amazon has been involved with for a while. We learned more from a recent Tech Crunch story: “Common Clause Stops Open-Source Abuse.”
According to the story:
“Amazon takes Redis (the most loved database in StackOverflow’s developer survey), gives very little back, and runs it as a service, re-branded as AWS Elasticache. Many other popular open-source projects including, Elasticsearch, Kafka, Postgres, MySQL, Docker, Hadoop, Spark and more, have similarly been taken and offered as AWS products.
“To be clear, this is not illegal. But we think it is wrong, and not conducive to sustainable open-source communities.”
Jean James: Broken and Corrupt Police Forces in Collusion with Broken and Corrupt Judges, Lawyers, and Accounting Firms – A UK Case Study
07 Other Atrocities, 10 Transnational Crime, Commerce, Corruption, Government, Law Enforcement
British born Canadian, Jean James, is a visual artist, writer, and researcher, with a particular interest in organised crime and public sector corruption. Since her family was defrauded in 2007 by criminals using the British Court of Protection as a tool, she discovered the racketeering that targets the elderly and vulnerable in the UK. Her research has put her in touch with numerous other victims whom the British state and police have also refused to protect. She encourages all British subjects to work together to expose crime and corruption, and restore fairness and equality in the British justice system, and take back their power.
A broken police force is great for the super-rich. But not for the rest of us
Huge underfunding means that the illicitly wealthy escape the clutches of the law – and everyday crimes go unpunished
“We cannot go after the people with real money,” one senior official explained. “If we did, we’d burn through our budget fighting their expensive lawyers in judicial reviews.” Instead, these agencies focus on trying to “change the climate”.
In light of above, I offer the following extended commentary:
