Category: IO Impotency

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Stephen E. Arnold: Amazon Loses Another Big One to Microsoft

IO Impotency
Stephen E. Arnold

Amazon: Some Trouble Down Under?

DarkCyber noted “Case Study: Why the Australian Electoral Commission Migrated to Microsoft Azure.” On the surface, the write up is another PR output. When considered in terms of the competition between Amazon and Microsoft for juicy non commercial jobs, the article provides a check list of what’s lacking in Amazon AWS.

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Phi Beta Iota: Amazon is actually the better offering on the back office side of the ledger, but they totally suck at everything else. And they are, if this is possible, even more arrogant and closed off than Microsoft. Both companies will follow IBM and Oracle into oblivion for failure to listen.

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Charles Hugh Smith: Don’t Be Too Sure ….

Cultural Intelligence, IO Impotency
Charles Hugh Smith

Don't Be Too Sure

Don't be too sure that the coronavirus will blow over and have no effect on global growth.

If there is anything that characterizes this moment in history, it's complacency: everyone's so sure that current trend lines will continue, onward and upward, and risk has been tamed for the foreseeable future.

Don't be too sure.

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Stephen E. Arnold: Google Manipulating Search…Again

Commerce, Corruption, IO Impotency
Stephen E. Arnold

Google: Making Friends Everywhere

Would it surprise anyone if Google alters search results to favor itself? Nope! Reuters explains that Europe is once again fed up with Google’s shenanigans, so “Axel Springer Unit, Others Say Google Still Playing Unfairly, Want EU To Act.” Axel Springer owns the shopping comparison Web site Idealo and it has teamed with forty other companies to accuse Google of altering search. The companies want the European Union to enforce a ruling against Google.

The claimants are pressuring European Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager to enforce an order she made two years ago for Google to stop favoring its own price comparison shopping service.

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Stephen E. Arnold: Openness is Search — Does Money Displace Ethics & Efficacy?

Commerce, Corruption, IO Impotency
Stephen E. Arnold

A Call for Openness in Search

“Opening Up Search Is an Ethical Imperative” presents an argument for opening up search. “Opening up” appears to mean that Google’s grip on ad supported search and retrieval is broken. The write up states:

LONG POST EVERY WORD WORTH READING

Advertisers go where the eyeballs are. Money can alter the meaning of ethics. And that money issue may be the reason Web sites are not indexed comprehensively, US government Web sites are indexed infrequently and superficially, and why Google ignores certain types of content.

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Betty Boop: Online “Behavior” Scores — The New Fascism?

07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, 10 Transnational Crime, 11 Society, Commerce, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, IO Impotency

Your online activity is now effectively a social ‘credit score’

Especially when the Morality Police get acquired.

…people who have “authored online content with negative language” will be marked down.

Phi Beta Iota: The President is not protecting the 1st, 2nd, or 4th Amendments of the US Constitution. What is being done by BigTech / #GoogleGestapo is outrageous and demands Presidential attention.

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