The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Watson: The PR Blitz Continues
I know that IBM is trying to reverse 13 quarters of revenue decline. I know that most of the firm’s business units are struggling to hit their numbers.
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Continue reading “Stephen E. Arnold: IBM Comatose, Near Death”
Researchers Hack Air-Gapped Computer With Simple Cell Phone
Phi Beta Iota: It's a pity US and Israel did not join in 1994 to commit to secure open source communications and computing — if absolutely trustworthy they would dominate the world marketplace by now. This vulnerability joins the long-known Chinese ability to ride electrical power circuits into US national security and commerical computers not connected to the Internet.
IBM and Its Federated Search Camelot
IBM’s assertion is that there will be no more “data silos in enterprise search.” You can learn about IBM’s “reality” in a webcast.
Seven blistering professional questions below the fold.
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Palantir is a unicorn wearing an invisibility saddle, tack, and saddle blanket. That’s okay with me. My observation is that Palantir has technology which is intended to prevent untoward acts. Are these untoward acts being prevented? I will let you answer that question.
Continue reading “Stephen E. Arnold: Palantir Unicon Rides Again…”
Web Sites Going The Way Of The Dodo
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Browsers are universal and can access any content with a Web address. Most Web sites also do not have an app counterpart, so the only way to access content is to use the old-fashioned browser. Another issue is that apps cannot be crawled by search engines, so they are left out of search results. The biggest pitfall for apps is that they have to be downloaded in order to be accessed, which takes up screen space and disk space.
CROWD-SOURCING THE TREATY VERIFICATION PROBLEM
“Never before has so much information and analysis been so widely and openly available. The opportunities for addressing future [treaty] monitoring challenges include the ability to track activity, materials and components in far more detail than previously, both for purposes of treaty verification and to counter WMD proliferation,” according to a recent study from the JASON defense science advisory panel. See Open and Crowd-Sourced Data for Treaty Verification, October 2014.
Continue reading “Steven Aftergood : JASON on Open Sources — 25 Years Late”
Without reference to Boyd Sutton or anyone else of note.
Rethinking the Concept of Global Coverage in the U.S. Intelligence Community
Institute for Defense Analysis, May 2015
