The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Meet the Robin Hood of Science by Simon Oxenham bigthink, The tale of how one researcher has made nearly every scientific paper ever published available for free to anyone, anywhere in the world.
Open-Source Textbooks Gain in Push for College Affordability ABC News (Michael Melia of Associated Press) The standard textbook for Fundamentals of General Chemistry I at the University of Connecticut has a list price of $303. For students who use the version professor Edward Neth is preparing for the fall semester, the cost will be zero. …
Academic Corruption Judge the Work By Its Quality This methodology causes false facts to be considered truth. Briggs brings up the “Trust In Science Would Be Improved By Study Pre-Registration” signed by more than eighty signatories and for the scientific community to require pre-registration for publishing before results are in. The idea is that journals …
How Are Those Cyber Security Vendors Performing? This sounds like old news. This is really new news. The trust outfit Thomson Reuters published “U.S. Government Probes VPN Hack within Federal Agencies, Races to Find Clues.” The main idea is that despite the amped up cyber security efforts, another somewhat minor issue has been discovered. The …
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Amazon: Zooming Toward Google Hangouts? DarkCyber spotted this Thomson Reuters’ story: “Amazon Tests Screening New Merchants for Fraud via Video Calls in Pandemic.” The news story reveals that yes, indeed, Amazon has its own Zoom-type service. There are a number of interesting Amazon patents related to video communications. These range from facial recognition to active …
使用右上角的小部件进行翻译。 Используйте верхний правый виджет для перевода. ਅਨੁਵਾਦ ਕਰਨ ਲਈ ਉੱਪਰਲੇ ਸੱਜੇ ਵਿਜੇਟ ਦੀ ਵਰਤੋਂ ਕਰੋ. ترجمہ کرنے کے لئے اوپری دائیں ویجیٹ کا استعمال کریں۔ As much as I am concerned about Amazon’s ethical lapses (common to its predecessor rogue elephants), it does have enormous potential and ethics can be re-asserted — ethics is …
Microsoft and Oracle: Fear Helps Make New Friends I found “Microsoft, Oracle Team Up on Cloud Services in Jab at Amazon” amusing. The real news outfit Thomson Reuters reported this unusual big company relationship when I was making my way through torrential rain in lovely West Virginia coal country. The mist did disguise the land …
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