Stephen E. Arnold: Amazon – A Succulent Target for Criticism

IO Impotency
Stephen E. Arnold

Amazon: A Succulent Target for Criticism

Heads up, Amazon, not everyone loves your shopping service. One example is the profane bassoonist. Yeah, that type of person exists in Amazonland. The story of the bassoon strap, a subscription service, and other money grubbing methods employed by the digital superstore infuse “What If Amazon.com Actually…Is A Horrible Website?”

The key point for me was this statement:

And then there are the outright scams. Like the unimaginable shipping prices on a cheap shower drain cover, which could only possibly mean they hope someone accidentally hits two-day shipping so they can charge them $1,000. Continue reading “Stephen E. Arnold: Amazon – A Succulent Target for Criticism”

Berto Jongman: Has General Vincent Stewart, USMC, Figured Out that US Has Cyber All Wrong? BRAVO ZULU!

Government, Ineptitude, IO Impotency, Military
Berto Jongman

Is the Defense Department’s entire vision of cybersecurity wrong?

“What if the way we’ve structured Cyber Command and our thinking about this space, what if it’s wrong?” Lt. Gen. Vincent Stewart, deputy commander of U.S. Cyber Command, said during a keynote presentation at the CyCon U.S. conference in Washington Nov. 14.

Cyber Command’s latest command vision states that adversaries are exploiting cyberspace on a daily basis for their own national interests below the threshold of armed conflict, and “in order to improve security and stability, we need a new approach.”

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SPECIAL: Why Oracle Is Doomed….

Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Ineptitude, IO Impotency
Robert David STEELE Vivas

I really like Larry Ellison for varied reasons including his off-shore sailing and his cash flow, but he now epitomizes the previously successful enterprise that is doomed (along with Google, Microsoft, and IBM, among many others).

Below the fold are three items; first a brief commentary from Stephen E. Arnold, one of the “three amigos” (the other is William Binney) who would have liked to help Oracle; second, a coder talking about Oracle reality — a bog of legacy code; and third, an extract on NoSQL versus SQL.

Amazon is doomed as well, but first they will become a trillion dollar company and screw over hundreds of millions of people. I give them ten more years.

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Stephen E. Arnold: Journal Subscription Doomsday

Collective Intelligence, Commerce, Corruption, Ineptitude, IO Impotency
Stephen E. Arnold

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 Enforcement
Stephen E. Arnold

Amazon 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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