The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Windows 10 is spying on almost everything you do – here’s how to opt out (in theory). Windows 10 is spying on almost everything you do – here’s how to opt out Phi Beta Iota: Microsoft probably uses the constant updates to do things other than update. They simply cannot be trusted anymore than Google. …
#bigideas I do miss Peter Drucker. I also think often of him, and Frank Lloyd Wright and many others, such as Russell Ackoff (“stop doing the wrong things righter, do the right things”). I use them to remind myself that it takes a quarter-century or more — and generally some cataclysmic failure — before the …
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Google: The Forever Rising Revenue Starship Will legal hassles, cost cutting, the surge in mobile usage, and the challenges of making money in China and Russia slow the Forever Rising, the new monetary interstellar vehicle? Absolutely not. Lawyers, even countries, cannot exert sufficient gravitational pull to cause the money craft to veer from its trajectory. …
Navy re-ups with Microsoft for more Windows XP support The US Navy’s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) has closed a $9.1 million contract extension with Microsoft that the agency originally announced in April to further extend custom support for the venerable Windows XP operating system, as well as the Office 2003 suite and …
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Richard Stallman and Phil Zimmerman underline key concerns with tech sector Two of technology’s most pioneering developers have strongly criticised the current state of the industry, warning that the right to encryption is doomed and that users are exploited by the software that they use. Open sourcerer Richard Stallman has painted a very bleak picture …
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Open source key to preserving human history, argues Vatican LAS VEGAS: Open source file formats are the only reliable way for humanity to preserve its history in the digital age, according to Vatican Library CIO Luciano Ammenti. Ammenti made the argument during a press session at EMC World attended by V3, citing his experience digitising …
I REALLY believe in this. This is serious shit. W UPDATE 5: Note from Winn with Link to Pilot Brief on Avionics Insecurity EXTRACT I am saying something very simple: I don’t know, and I don’t know anyone else who really does know, for absolutely sure, how secure the various networks and systems on airplanes …
