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After reportedly butting heads with Larry Ellison, Oracle’s top cloud executive is leaving the company

Kurian’s departure comes just weeks after Oracle announced he was taking a break from his position overseeing Oracle’s cloud efforts, and after Bloomberg reported that a conflict with Oracle co-founder, executive chairman, chief technology officer, and person whose opinion seems to matter most Larry Ellison over the direction of Oracle’s platform software strategy. Kurian reportedly wanted to let more of Oracle’s software run on public infrastructure clouds like Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, which Ellison apparently resisted given Oracle’s feeble attempts to compete in that market.

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2018/09/292018/09/28

John McAfee: “Blockchain is Truth” Stephen E. Arnold: Not If You Let Gnomes of Zurich, Goldman Sachs, and China Control It….

Advanced Cyber/IO

Key phrases transcribed below the fold.

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2018/09/292018/09/28

Berto Jongman: Brian Acton (WhatsApp) on Why It Was Worth Losing $850 Million to Leave #DeleteFacebook of #GoogleGestapo

Commerce, Corruption, IO Impotency

Exclusive: WhatsApp Cofounder Brian Acton Gives The Inside Story On #DeleteFacebook And Why He Left $850 Million Behind

They are businesspeople, they are good businesspeople. They just represent a set of business practices, principles and ethics, and policies that I don’t necessarily agree with.”

See Also:

#GoogleGestapo @ Phi Beta Iota

2018/09/292018/09/28

Berto Jongman: #GoogleGestapo Google Creates Ultimate Censoring Platform for China

Commerce, Corruption, IO Impotency

Ex-Google employee warns of ‘disturbing’ China plans

Jack Poulson, who had been a senior researcher at the company until resigning in August, wrote that he was fearful of Google's ambitions.

His letter alleges Google's work on a Chinese product – codenamed Dragonfly – would aid Beijing's efforts to censor and monitor its citizens online.

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2018/09/292018/09/28

Stephen E. Arnold: Amazon Ramps Up Police State Big Data Offering

Advanced Cyber/IO, Commerce, Corruption, IO Impotency

Amazon: Accommodating Big Chunks of Data

Our research into Amazon’s capabilities caused us to note the information in “Amazon Rolls Out High Memory Instances for In-Memory Databases.” Many companies want to munch on Big Data. I would point out that certain US government organization have a healthy appetite for the capability as well.

I noted this statement:

The new High Memory EC2 instances offer a choice of 6, 9 and 12 terabytes of memory, with 18TB and 24TB options to arrive next year.

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2018/09/272018/09/25

Berto Jongman: Beacon and Warning: Sherman Kent, Scientific Hubris, and the CIA’s Office of National Estimates

Corruption, Government, Idiocy, Ineptitude, IO Impotency

Beacon and Warning: Sherman Kent, Scientific Hubris, and the CIA’s Office of National Estimates

J. Peter Scoblic, a doctoral candidate at Harvard Business School, is a fellow in the International Security Program at New America and the author of U.S. vs. Them: Conservatism in the Age of Nuclear Terror.

“From bias to probabilities, Kent anticipated the findings of modern scholars by many decades. However, in his conviction that intelligence analysts would soon be able to forecast geopolitical events with scientific accuracy, Kent overreached. Enthusiasm turned out to be hubris, and the predictive record of the Office of National Estimates was decidedly mixed. In light of this history, today's enthusiasm for the predictive potential of Big Data and artificial intelligence seems overzealous. Kent’s relentless pursuit of the truth makes him a model in today’s political climate, but his failures should serve as a warning to those who believe that technology can eliminate the uncertainty of the future.”

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2018/09/262018/09/25

Mongoose: Apple is Now Spying On You and Assigning a “Trust Score” — China Could Not Be More Pleased…. #GoogleGestapo

Commerce, Corruption, IO Impotency

Apple Will Start Tracking Your Calls & Emails To Assign You A ‘Trust Score’

The Facts

Apple iPhone users will now have their data on phones calls, texts and emails track by Apple so they can be given a ‘trust score.' They claim this data collection will help prevent fraud.

Reflect On:

Is this not just behavioural and user data collection disguised as ‘trying to protect you?' Is this data going to be used to sell you more products? Or maybe sold to other companies? Do we have ANY reason to trust Apple?

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