The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Generalizations about Big Data: Hail, the Mighty Hadoop
I read “A Big Data Cheat Sheet: What Executives Want to Know.” The hidden agenda in the write up is revealed with the juxtaposition of the source Social Media Today and the technology Hadoop.
Is (Human) Collaboration the Key to Big Data Progress?
The article titled Big Data Must Haves: Capacity, Compute, Collaboration on GCN offers insights into the best areas of focus for big data researchers. The Internet2 Global Summit is in D.C. this year with many exciting panelists who support the emphasis on collaboration in particular. The article mentions the work being presented by several people including Clemson professor Alex Feltus,
Is Fukushima the Wormwood of Biblical Fame?
The Pacific Ocean is dying- From the ground up the entire food chain is collapsing.
Lawsuit (class action) filed in California against Monsanto's herbicide Roundup! Spread the word, the media is refusing to report…
Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against Monsanto. Media Silent
Efforts to publicize this lawsuit against Monsanto for false advertising with Roundup, filed in Los Angeles County Court on April 20, 2015, have been rejected by the LA Times, Huffington Post, CNN, and Reuters, one of the world’s largest news agencies. The plaintiff’s attorney, T. Matthew Phillips, has been posting the suit in Wikipedia’s Monsanto litigation section, but it keeps getting removed.
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UPDATE 5: Note from Winn with Link to Pilot Brief on Avionics Insecurity
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I am saying something very simple: I don't know, and I don't know anyone else who really does know, for absolutely sure, how secure the various networks and systems on airplanes are. I do know that when an IT person says they are secure because they use a firewall, I am skeptical. I am not a fan of security by obscurity, often favoring open source reporting by an independent security review on a periodic basis. I also know that physically isolated networks are sure a whole lot more secure than two network segments that are electronically isolated. Lastly, I know, for absolutely sure, I would be a boatload more comfortable really knowing that airplanes, of all things, maintain the highest level of security possible.
Short URL for this post: http://tinyurl.com/air-cyber-safe
Madison's Farce In Action: The media’s disgraceful reaction to Seymour Hersh’s bin Laden Report
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In an ideal world, Hersh’s report would trigger more investigative journalism. Yet despite its obvious importance, as Trevor Timm explains below in the Columbia Journalism Review, the mainstream media’s reaction to the Hersh report has not been to dig deeper, but to shoot the messenger.
Editor In Chief Of World’s Best Known Medical Journal: Half Of All The Literature Is False
Dr. Horton recently published a statement declaring that a lot of published research is in fact unreliable at best, if not completely false.
“The case against science is straightforward: much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue. Afflicted by studies with small sample sizes, tiny effects, invalid exploratory analyses, and flagrant conflicts of interest, together with an obsession for pursuing fashionable trends of dubious importance, science has taken a turn towards darkness.” (source)
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