The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
BIG IDEAS: China Fixated on the Moon BIG IDEAS: PhD Should be PSD (Problem-Solving Degree) CYBER: Israeli Hacking School ETHICS: Destruction of the US Information Agency — and US Diplomacy ETHICS: UK Targets Guardian Over Leaks SURVEY: Risks of State-Led Mass Killings in 2014 THREAT: 10 Guns, Bombs, and Weapons You Can Build at the …
Amazon Aims to Make Computing Cheaper Amazon has aspirations beyond being the world’s largest retailer. The online retail giant also aspires to be a mega force in computing, says The New York Times Bits Blog in: “Amazon Bares Its Computers.” Amazon has announced that it is taking its Amazon Web Services beyond simple cloud-computing to …
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Free Software Supporter Issue 68, November 2013 TABLE OF CONTENTS Give freely this Cyber Monday: Introducing the 2013 Giving Guide FSF campaigns manager speaks about free software at iD Programming Academy LibrePlanet 2014 dates announced Avaneya releases libre game for GNU/Linux based on lost NASA archives Rockstar vs. Google: software patents as a license for …
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HPSCI Seeks “Continuous Evaluation” of Security-Cleared Employees Recent unauthorized disclosures of classified information might have been prevented if U.S. intelligence agencies “continuously evaluated the backgrounds of employees and contractors,” according to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI). In its new report on the FY 2014 intelligence authorization bill, the Committee would require intelligence …
9 Challenges Facing Journalism 50 Greatest Breakthroughs Since the Wheel ACTIVISM: Anti-Drone Movement BIG IDEAS: Bitcoin Economy BIG IDEAS: Digital Privacy Resolution from United Nations BIG IDEAS: Earth Is A Machine BIG IDEAS: Learning Through Interesting Imagery BIG IDEAS: Post-Human Future? BIG IDEAS: Vaclav Smil on Reality (Bill Gate’s Favorite Author) CYBER: App Generation CYBER: …
BIG IDEA: 13 Year Old Radically Improves Solar Panel Efficiency with Design BIG IDEA: We have to learn Chinese – many core Chinese concepts do not translate CRIME: Corporate Orgy of Thieves CRIME: Mainstreaming Sexual Perversion CYBER: Coming tech lash CYBER: NSA Goal to Master Cyber Intelligence CYBER: NSA SIGINT Strategy 2012-2016 CYBER: Surveillance threatens …
2013 Pentagon Arctic Strategy (PDF 16 Pages) Phi Beta Iota: Boiler-plate. The one little gem, “all domain awareness,” is glossed over. In other words, neither DoD nor NORTHCOM understand that getting a grip on the Arctic demands a Multinational Decision Support Centre that enables the capture and sharing of all information in all languages all …
