The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Intel is doing something new and useful. They have introduced a Conflict-Free Smelter Program (CFSP) to migrate toward assuring Intel consumers that its offerings are free of minerals from conflict environments — tantalum, tin, tungsten, and gold are the ones they are focusing on. What Intel is doing impresses me for two reasons. First, they …
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My Masters is focused on Strategic Studies and International Security and my thesis is about the relevance of the black-ops (paramilitary) to the detriment of the conventional military operations in America´s foreign policy. Basically I argue (due to literature that I´ve been revising for more than a year) that it is a fact that since …
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The Amazon Cloud: From Objects to an “Incredible Figure” I suppose rural Kentucky is no bellwether for the economic micro climates in which Amazon, Google, eBay, Facebook, and a handful of other companies operate. The big news in Kentucky is General Electric’s rumored sale of the sprawling Appliance Park. The “park” is a misnomer or …
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Overreliance on Search Engines? The Salon.com article titled Google Makes Us All Dumber: The Neuroscience of Search Engines probes the ever-increasing reliance on search engines and finds that the way we use them is problematic. This is due to the way our brains respond to this simplified question and answer process. The article stipulates that …
Reflections on China & The Internet LinkedIn, 3 November 2014 It was my great privilege to be a co-founder with Winn Schwartau of the first Information Warfare Conference in the early 1990’s. Winn, through his books and Congressional testimony did more than anyone else to warn us of both NSA’s likekly malfeasance (see his 1980’s …
SPANISH OSE Chapter 2 Full Text in Spanish Below the Line
New York Times Online: An Inside View Check out the presentation “The Surprising Path to a Faster NYTimes.com.” I was surprised at some of the information in the slide deck. First, I thought the New York Times was first online in the 1970s via LexisNexis. I thought that was an exclusive deal and reasonably profitable …
