The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
A Decision on the Palantir US Army Dust Up Looms
Palantir Technologies like many Silicon Valley-type firms, takes its inspiration from logical reasoning (our software is great, therefore, the US Army should use it, not DCGS which is not great), Google methods (do not ask permission, apologize later), venture capital infused advisors (we are the masters of the universe), or Larry the Cable guy (git ‘er done).
Continue reading “Stephen E. Arnold: Palantir's Last Stand…”
BA Insight and Its Ideas for Enterprise Search Success
I read “Success Factors for Enterprise Search.” The write up spells out a checklist to make certain that an enterprise search system delivers what the users want—on point answers to their business information needs. The reason a checklist is necessary after more than 50 years of enterprise search adventures is a disconnect between what software can deliver and what the licensee and the users expect. Imagine figuring out how to get across the Grand Canyon only to encounter the Iguazu Falls. . . . The reality is that even the most sophisticated search and content processing systems end up in trouble. Search remains a very difficult problem. Today’s solutions do a few things better than STAIRS III did. But in the end, search software crashes and burns when it has to:
Reports of Potential Voting Trickery in 2016 Presidential Election
The experience of voters in Texas and other states may be bearing out Trump’s warning as multiple reports are surfacing of electronic voting machines changing virtual ballots from Republican to Democratic presidential candidates.
As The Economic Collapse Blog observes,
[A] number of voters in Texas are reporting that the voting machines switched their votes from Donald Trump to Hillary Clinton.
iSucker: Big Brother Internet Culture
.gov is herding web sites into its own little DNS animal farms so it can properly protect the public from that dangerous ‘information' stuff in time of emergency. CloudFlare is the biggest abattoir… er, animal farm. CloudFlare is kind of like a protection racket. If you pay their outrageous fees, you will be ‘protected' from DDoS attacks. Since CloudFlare is the preferred covert .gov tool of censorship and content control (when things go south), they are trying to drive as many sites as possible into their digital panopticons. Source: post #33 in comments by PavewayIV
ORIGINAL STORY ON 16 OCT 2016
U.S. To Use Internet ‘Kill Switch’ By November In Cyberwar With Russia
The US government is preparing to activate an “internet kill switch” according to cyber security experts, and the groundwork has been laid to blame the unprecedented act on Russia.
LO AND BEHOLD ON 21 oct 2016
Someone Attacked America’s Internet
Twitter, Reddit and Spotify were collateral damage in a major online assault
Continue reading “Berto Jongman: Internet Shut-Down, Internet War, US Faking a Russian Attack?”
Google and the Mobile Traffic Matter
I read a couple of writes up about “Google May Be Stealing Your Mobile Traffic.” Quite surprisingly there was a response to these “stealing” articles by Google. You can read the explanation in a comment by Malte Ubl in the original article (link here). . . . Today’s Google is now a legacy system. I know this is heretical, but Google is not a search company. The firm is using its legacy platform to deliver revenue and maximize that revenue. Facebook (which has lots of Xooglers running around) is doing essentially the same thing but with plumbing variations. I am probably wildly out of step with youthful Googlers and the zippy mobile AMPers. But from my vantage point, Google has been delivering a closed garden solution for a long time.
Image and comment below the fold.
Continue reading “Stephen E. Arnold: Google's Closed (Controlled) Jail Yard”
PBI: Above is our editorial title, see our comment below the fold.
Palantir Technologies: An Overview of What Looks Like a Muliti Front War
I read “Conservatives See Political Reprisal As Obama Administration Sues Peter Thiel’s Palantir.” Here in Harrod’s Creek “political reprisal” gets translated as blood feud. The source for the “reprisal” allegation is a real journalistic outfit, The Washington Times. The story appeared on October 16, 2016, when most of the movers and shakers in DC and other US power centers were gearing up to watch NFL football.
