The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
A prominent US political leader recently said that “the job numbers do not lie.” This is in fact a lie. The job numbers do lie. Below are just a few of the reports from others that have appeared here at Phi Beta Iota, all continue to be relevant today. Graphic: USA Unemployment 22.4% and Rising …
Real Time: Maybe, Maybe Not The general buzzy Teddy Bear notion of real time is that when new data are available to the system, the system processes the data and makes them available to other software processes and users. . . . Real time. Not now and not unless something magic happens to eliminate latencies, …
Expect Disruption from Future Technology A dystopian future where technology has made humanity obsolete is a theme older than the Industrial Revolution. History has proven that while some jobs are phased out thanks to technology more jobs are created by it, after all someone needs to monitor and make the machines. As technology grows and …
How the CIA made Google Inside the secret network behind mass surveillance, endless war, and Skynet—part 1 Why Google made the NSA Inside the secret network behind mass surveillance, endless war, and Skynet—part 2
Harvard University says it can’t afford journal publishers’ prices University wants scientists to make their research open access and resign from publications that keep articles behind paywalls Exasperated by rising subscription costs charged by academic publishers, Harvard University has encouraged its faculty members to make their research freely available through open access journals and to …
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 …
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Data.gov: Listing May Be Enough I am all for slipshod work, particularly when delivered by government contractors. Hey, the emphasis is on scope changes and engineering change orders, not on delivering what the wild and crazy statement of work requires. I was delighted to read the Hacker News thread at http://bit.ly/MW4epC about broken links and …
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