The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
P2P Wiki : Autonomous Internet Road-Map P2P Wiki: Free Network Five Stages to Full Ownership Stage 1: Co-Op. Stage 2: Digital Village. Stage 3: Toward Unity. Stage 4: A Backbone of Our Own. Stage 5: A Human Right. See also Free Network Movement, Diaspora, A Human Right, and Buy This Satellite. Google Group: Autonomous Internet …
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Buying an education or buying a brand? It’s reported that student debt in the USA is approaching a trillion dollars, five times what it was ten years ago. Are those in debt buying more education or are they seeking better branding in the form of coveted diplomas? Does a $40,000 a year education that comes …
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Phi Beta Iota: Posted with permission. We strongly recommend the Intelligence Online offerings. We have received a number of commentaries around this topic, and they boil down to the situation being much, much worse than depicted here: 1. Budget weenies without substantive experience running entire agencies (e.g. NRO) 2. Nose-dive to the lowest common denominator, …
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Conference Page Phi Beta Iota: The sponsor has the best of intentions, but we find the program appalling. With a couple of exceptions there is no one here that actually knows anything, and there is zero evidence that this is anything other than a meet and greet within the closed circle that will be blowing …
Wasting the digital dividend The internet means that many time-consuming forms of white-collar drudgery have disappeared, or at least been offloaded to cheaper people who aren’t you, permitting you to spend more time on things that are actually productive and highly leveraged. No more standing in line at the copier, trudging to the Fedex box, …
How is SSL hopelessly broken? Let us count the ways Blunders expose huge cracks in net’s trust foundation By Dan Goodin in San Francisco • Get more from this author Posted in Security, 11th April 2011 03:00 GMT Phi Beta Iota: Instead of spending $12 billion on cyber-attack and trying to defend 1970’s technology created by …
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“The National Conversation” Debuts The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars has announced a new initiative launching April 8, 2011: The National Conversation at the Woodrow Wilson Center. The National Conversation will examine overarching themes of U.S. international and domestic policy, drawing on high-profile guests and experts from all sides of the political sphere to …
