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Russian Researcher Illegally Shares Millions of Science Papers Free Online

Welcome to the Pirate Bay of science

A researcher in Russia has made more than 48 million journal articles – almost every single peer-reviewed paper every published – freely available online. And she's now refusing to shut the site down, despite a court injunction and a lawsuit from Elsevier, one of the world's biggest publishers. For those of you who aren't already using it, the site in question is Sci-Hub, and it's sort of like a Pirate Bay of the science world.

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2016/02/272016/02/27

Robert Steele: Palantir – Enough Already

IO Impotency

Robert David Steele Vivas

I keep hearing about people buying into Palantir as a “solution” for past mistakes. I do not recommend Palantir to anyone, and certainly not to multi-billion dollar companies that ought to know better. The best advice I can give any major company thinking about its sad existing IT infrastructure is this: first get the truth on the table, and then lead an industry-wide open source solution. The people who created the legacy mistakes are not the people that are going to admit their mistakes, nor are they the people best qualified to clean house and start over.

See Especially:

Palantir: A Dying Unicorn or a Mad, Mad Sign?

Stephen E. Arnold: Palantir Raises More Money — Comment by Robert Steele on Palantir’s Short-Falls

Robert Steele: The Ultimate Hack — From Open Data to Open Engineering to Open Power

2016/02/272016/02/27

Stephen E. Arnold: Dark Web Webinar and Book

Advanced Cyber/IO

Dark Web and Tor Investigative Tools: Tactics, New Products, and Ongoing Developments

This webinar looks at specific vendors and products tailored to cope with Dark Web or hidden online services. The information in this webinar has been assembled as part of Stephen E Arnold's 18 month research project into Dark Web solutions, tactics, and systems. The program is designed to provide an analyst or investigator with specific information about systems and methods useful in exploring and accessing information hidden, obfuscated, and encrypted on Dark Web sites. The webinar extends the research summarized in Arnold's 2015 study CyberOSINT: Next Generation Information Access. More than a dozen tools and products are illustrated in the webinar. Many are likely to be unfamiliar to professionals working to leverage Dark Web content and services.

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2016/02/262016/02/24

Nik Peachey: Tool for Slow-Motion Video

IO Tools

Great tool for making slow motion video on your phone.

The First Ever Slowmography App

Just take photos, Mo turns them into stunning slow motion GIFs or video loops

2016/02/232016/02/20

Worth a Look: Empire, Racism, and Genocide – A History of U.S. Foreign Policy

01 Poverty, 02 Infectious Disease, 03 Environmental Degradation, 04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 06 Genocide, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Proliferation, 09 Terrorism, 10 Transnational Crime, IO Deeds of War, Peace Intelligence

In its entire history, there has been very little time when the United States has been at peace. As it wages its many wars and ‘interventions’, the stated goal is always something few people could argue with: fostering democracy when a struggling people are resisting tyranny, removing threats to U.S. security, or punishing a cruel dictator for unspeakable misdeeds.

Yet on closer scrutiny, these reasons are seldom valid. They simply hide the true purposes of U.S. military involvement, which are power and wealth. Starting with the barbarous destruction of Native American culture in order to gain farmlands, right through to the Iraqi invasion for oil, money and power have always motivated U.S. foreign policy decisions. Dictators with appalling records of human rights violations are upheld by the U.S. if they agree to whatever economic or strategic demands the U.S. makes. Conversely, democratically elected leaders are overthrown if they don’t.

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2016/02/222016/02/20

Ty Simpson: Ethereum World Computer

Advanced Cyber/IO

What is Ethereum?

Ethereum, like any advanced system, will mean different things to different people. As you read this section, some bits may not resonate with you or even make sense. That is fine, just skip to the next paragraph and hopefully that one will be more enlightening. If you reach the end of this section and still feel confused, then jump on a forum and start asking questions.

Learn more.

2016/02/222016/02/20

Stephen E. Arnold: Print – and Digital – Media Dead

IO Impotency

Print and Digital: Both Goners

I read in McPaper this article: “Wolff: Print’s Dead — but So Is Digital.” Okay, I learned from Dr. Francis Chivers (Duquesne University professor in the 1960s) that God is dead. I learned from Francis Fukuyama (assorted universities) that history is dead. Now I learn from McPaper that print and digital are dead. A two’fer! That is what makes McPaper so darned compelling.

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