Search: open education / digital learning [as of 30 Oct 2012]
Open education has at least three components: free access to learning resources; digital access to formerly analog learning resoources (e.g. instructors in classrooms); and learning accomplishment validation (becoming common) or credentialing (rare at this time). More broadly defined, open education is “root” for any society desiring to be both democratic and prosperous. Open education has …
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Search: openbts [as of 30 Oct 2012]
OpenBTS stands for Open Base Transciever Station. It is the foundation for free cellular service and Internet access. Ham radio operators were the first hackers, with active government repression until the government finally got a brain on this issue — ignorance always leads people with power lacking in integrity to do stupid things. Now OpenBTS …
Marcus Aurelius: Secretary Harold Brown on Cutting Service Secretaries
Dr. Brown paints Service Secretaries, in the terms my father would have used, as “spare gear.”) A Better Place To Cut To protect military programs, get rid of redundant service secretaries By Harold Brown Washington Post, October 19, 2012, Pg. 21 The four military services in the Defense Department differ in their roles, missions and …
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Marcus Aurelius: Mike Hayden Says Obama’s Military Comments Not ‘Presidential’
Hayden: Obama’s Military Comments Not ‘Presidential’ President Obama’s response to Mitt Romney comments on the size of the U.S. Navy during Monday’s debate did not “play well” with American voters, former CIA Director Michael Hayden tells Newsmax. Romney complained that the Navy is “smaller now than any time since 1917.” Obama responded: “We also have …
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Steve Aftergood: Defense Office of Hearings and Appeals Deepens Its Lack of Integrity – “Negative Reciprocity” Means Unsigned Unsworn Summary Statements from CIA — Itself Notorious –Can Kill a Contractor’s Career – UPDATED
“NEGATIVE RECIPROCITY” EMERGES IN THE SECURITY CLEARANCE SYSTEM In the world of security clearances for access to classified information, the term “reciprocity” is used to indicate that one executive branch agency should ordinarily recognize and accept a security clearance that has been granted by another executive branch agency. This is not just a nice, cost-efficient …
Search: osint [as of 21 Oct 2012]
WordPress search results are presented in reverse chronological order, and osint is a very old concept, since replaced by M4IS2. OSINT is also only relevant in the context of a larger contruct, ethical evidence-based decisions in support of policy, acquisition, and operations. Our understanding is that the US Government has eliminated the ADDNI/OS position and …
