Journal ISSN 1078-1935 – Page 1477 – Public Intelligence Blog

The Cloud: Flecked with Scattered Twinkie-Like Information

I read “Cloud Revenue Jumps, Led by Old Computing Titans.” If you have a hard copy of the “real” journalism Mt. Parnassus, you can find this story in the August 4, 2014 version delivered to Kentucky. Online, the story carries an August 3, 2014 date and, if you are quick, you may be able to locate it at http://nyti.ms/1xUXLw9.

I found the write up fascinating because the guts of the story pivot on three firms engaged in selling consulting services: Synergy, Gartner, and IDC. The facts of the article appear to come from the financial reports and other public statements of Amazon, IBM, and Microsoft. As real news goes, relying on “experts” and somewhat broad groupings of financial information continues to make the wheels of commerce go round. I like it. The confection is an excellent Twinkie-like approach to a diaphanous, hard to define topic—the cloud.

Continue reading “Stephen E. Arnold: The Cloud — Twittering Twinkies”

2014/08/082014/08/05

Sepp Hasslberger: Microwave Engine for Space Travel?

05 Energy

NASA Scientists Claim “Impossible” Space Travel Engine Could Actually Work

While some may say that nothing is impossible, that is a word that has been frequently used by experts to describe SPR Ltd’s EmDrive. To some, EmDrive is crazy, junk science that will never amount to anything; however, its inventor Roger Shawyer has stuck by it resolutely and insists that this novel spacecraft propulsion system works.

EmDrive is a highly efficient propellant-less propulsion system that converts microwave energy into thrust inside a sealed chamber. Such a system would be a complete game changer in spaceflight; it could dramatically cut the cost of satellites and space stations, extend the lives of spacecrafts and drive deep-space missions. But there’s a problem- it violates Newtonian laws of physics, in particular the law of conservation of momentum. Critics have therefore claimed that any thrust generated by prototype systems tested so far must be coming from another source.

Continue reading “Sepp Hasslberger: Microwave Engine for Space Travel?”

2014/08/072014/08/05

Anthony Judge – Imagining Order as Hypercomputing Operating an information engine through meta-analogy

Advanced Cyber/IO, Cultural Intelligence

Imagining Order as Hypercomputing

Operating an information engine through meta-analogy

Introduction
Paradoxical locus of nonlocal oracular hypercomputing
Engendering oracular hypercomputing through investing significance
Necessary impossibility of explaining oracular hypercomputing
Imagining as key to oracular hypercomputing
Hypercomputing as imaginative enactment
Nescience as a mode of hypercomputing?
Imagining order and pattern “re-cognition”
Exercise in imagining hypercomputing via hexagram patterning
Hypercomputer operation clarified through metaphors of engine design
Recognizing a confluence of imaginative possibilities
References

2014/08/072014/08/04

Jerome Glenn: Some Elements of the Next Global Economic System

03 Economy

Some Elements of the Next Global Economic System

How Might These New Elements Affect the Human Condition over the Next 20 Years?

Leading futurists, future-oriented economists, and future-oriented financial experts were invited to participate in this study, thinking 20 years ahead for imagining alternative futures for the world economy.

See list of 35 elements with ranks and comments.

2014/08/072014/08/04

Yoda: Tolodo Water Toxins

12 Water

Water in Toledo found to contain toxin; emergency declared

With 600,000 people at the west end of Lake Erie advised Saturday not to drink their tap water due to the presence of a toxin, experts here said water remains safe.

“There’s no cause for alarm here,” said Paul Whittam, director of water quality services at the Erie County Water Authority. “Water quality is excellent on this end of the lake.”

Water at a Toledo, Ohio, treatment plant has tested positive for microcystin, a toxin known to cause liver and kidney damage, leaving thousands of Ohio residents without water and prompting a state of emergency Saturday.

Read full article.

2014/08/072014/08/04

Penguin: US Sailors at Fukushima – Infertility, Pregancy Disorders, Full-Scale Cover-Up by US Navy

03 Environmental Degradation, 07 Health, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Proliferation, 08 Wild Cards, Corruption, Military, Officers Call

Gov’t Report: Over 1,750 navy sailors suffer from ‘ill-defined conditions’ after exposure to Fukushima radiation while aboard USS Reagan — ‘Significant increases’ in male infertility and child birth complications — Dozens have thyroid disorders, many spontaneous abortions — Veteran: ‘Extreme measures’ used to cover this up.

Itemized listing of USS Reagan diseases being actively concealed by US Navy.

2014/08/062014/08/06

Berto Jongman: C-SPAN on 9/11 – A Definitive Exposure

07 Other Atrocities

Phi Beta Iota: Richard Gage is a proven authority on 9/11 truth. For C-SPAN to finally cover him and the views of Arhcitects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth is a major change — the government narrative has collapsed and a majority of US citizens are now beginning to understand the culture of lies that characterizes the US Government's approach to everything from its own corruption to banking fraud to unemployment. We salute all of the good citizens who have persisted in this search for the truth.

See Also:

Mini-Me: 9/11 Convergence + NEW Information + Comment by Robert Steele + List of Advance Warnings from Over 13 Countries

Pressure on New York Times Builds with Recent C-SPAN Success