The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
This could be a really useful tool for creating a back channel.
It's like a private chat room for your small group. Have as many as you want, and it's always free. Now, you can coordinate with coworkers, organize a game night, and keep in touch with family all in the same place.
This is the other end of the Water is Destiny Trend spectrum. Rising sea levels will produce one migration — away from the coasts, while what happened in Williams, will spread across the Southwest and Plains states, and create another.
Arizona Town Near Grand Canyon Runs Low on Water
The Associated Press
U.S. National Security’s Achilles Heel – The Electromagnetic Spectrum
Over the past four years bills on cybersecurity, Electromagnetic Pulse threats, and other forms of “purposeful interference” with U.S. cyberspace have been introduced only to go nowhere.
By now it has been well established that EMP, whether in the form of a Carrington Event of solar origin or the explosion of a high-radiation-yield nuclear device in the atmosphere above the United States could knock out the country’s electrical grid and therewith threaten the lives of 9 of 10 Americans, making a conventional nuclear attack seem like child’s play.
Although a super solar fare on September 1, 1859, was observed and documented by the English astronomer Richard Carrington, and it is known that U.S. adversaries like Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea either have or can construct and explode a nuclear device in the atmosphere above large parts of the country, these threats are not taken seriously.
On December 23, 2013, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency issued a solicitation “to … conduct satellite system performance modeling, satellite system response-to-environments modeling, high altitude weapons electromagnetic pulse effects modeling, and disturbed atmosphere effects modeling…”
Predictably No One Trusts Google Glass
A portion of Back To The Future II where Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly invades the far-flung future of 2015. Among flying cars, self-drying clothes, and hover boards a few of the citizens where these weird glasses that they use to watch TV and do other activities. The people wearing these devices look weird and are committing a horrendous fashion faux pas. This is how many people view Google Glass, but fashion statement aside they also don’t trust the digital accessory because of privacy concerns. TechEye.net explains in “Americans Distrust Google Glass” that a recent market survey from Toluna explained that more than 72 percent of Americans do not want to spend the money on the device, because they’re worried their private data could become public and being recorded without consent.
Continue reading “Stephen A. Arnold: 72% Do Not Trust Google Glass”
The ongoing disinformation campaign financed by carbon interests such as the Koch brothers, combined with the corruption of every branch of our government, has left us in this condition.
No One Trusts Washington on Climate Change
CHRISTOPHER CALDWELL, Senior Editor – Financial Times (U.K.)
In the age of the Iraq war and Obamacare, the government is hardly a trustworthy body.
The 841-page National Climate Assessment released by the US government this week has been described as ‘sobering”, but Americans do not appear sobered. The report goes into astonishing detail about what severe climate change would mean – and what it means already to specific villages, mountains and beaches.
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PHI BETA IOTA: As recently as 2013, TIME Magazine has made the mistake — in a cover story no less — of equating the Deep Web to the Dark Web. One is unindexed and legal, the other is anonymous and often invisible as well as criminal. For TIME Magazine to not know the difference — and to ignore a very professional letter from Abe Lederman, founder of Deep Web Technologies seeking to correct the record, is in our view emblematic of the sad ignorance as well as editorial shallowness that characterizes the mainstream media. Below, with profound respect for the ethics, accomplishments, and enormous future potential of Abe Lederman and his company, Deep Web Technologies, we are happy to post pointers to the two TIME Magazine stories that are in error (the authors are Lev Grossman and Jay Newton-Small); and to the blog correction posted by Mr. Lederman that includes a copy of the Letter to the Editor that TIME Magainze in its insousance failed to acknowledge, much less publish. TIME did fine on the Dark Web. They know nothing at all about the much larger, much more important Deep Web . Here is the authentic perspective of Abe Lederman. We are glad to shine a light on his hard-earned knowledge.
TIME: The Secret Web: Where Drugs, Porn and Murder Live Online (11 November 2013)
TIME: Why The Deep Web Has Washington Worried (31 October 2013)
LEDERMAN: The Deep Web isn’t all drugs, porn, and murder
See Also:
2010 Interview with Deep Web Technologies’ Abe Lederman
2008 Deep Web Technologies: An Interview with Abe Lederman by Stephen E. Arnold
OpenEarth is a free and open source initiative to deal with Data, Models and Tools in earth science & engineering projects, currently mainly marine & coastal. In current practice, research, consultancy and construction projects commonly spend a significant part of their budget to setup some basic infrastructure for data and knowledge management. Most of these efforts disappear again once the project is finished. As an alternative to these ad-hoc approaches, OpenEarth aims for a more continuous approach to data & knowledge management. It provides a platform to archive, host and disseminate high quality data, state-of-the-art model systems and well-tested tools for practical analysis. Through this project-superseding approach, marine & coastal engineers and scientists can learn from experiences in previous projects and each other. This may lead to considerable efficiency gains, both in terms of budget and time. The following 2 papers describe the OpenEarth approach in more detail: Terra et Aqua, 2013, NCK 2012 & WODCON 2010.
Within the OpenEarth community two types of users can be distinguished: 1) OpenEarth users and 2) OpenEarth developers.
There are separate tech notes for the three analysis languages that OpenEarth fosters and supports: MATLAB, Python and R.
