The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
People who are truly knowledgeable about IT are appalled about what the NSA is doing and, as this report shows, they are speaking out. Open Letter From Top U.S. Computer Security Experts Slams NSA Spying As Destroying Security WashingtonsBlog The NSA Is Making Us All Less Safe An open letter today from a large group …
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CHINA: COIN strategy in Tibet and Xinjiang CITIZEN SCIENCE: charts horse chestnut tree pest spread CRIME: JP Morgan CRIME: Meltdown: The men who crashed the world DESIGN: award for Dutch innovation: the wingman FUKUSHIMA: new secrecy legislation INNOVATION: radiation detector in smartphone
Is information physical? And what does that mean? Massimo Pigliucci Rationally Speaking Posted: Jan 24, 2014 Massimo Pigliucci I’ve been reading for a while now Jim Baggott’s Farewell to Reality: How Modern Physics Has Betrayed the Search for Scientific Truth, a fascinating tour through cutting edge theoretical physics, led by someone with a physics background …
Open Source and a New Look for Ontopia If you are thinking about building applications based on topic maps and do not feel like shelling out money for proprietary software, then do not look any further than Ontopia! Ontopia is an open source tools suite with features such as an ontology designer, a full-featured query …
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ATROCITIES: risks of state-led mass killing AUSTRALIA: Terrorists taking cut of millions in drug money BIG DATA: predictive algorythms and virtues of transparancy CAR: CAR risks spiralling into genocide CHINA: 37,000 Elite Offshore Accounts Outed, China Reacts to Protect Them and Censor the Story CHINA: How Its Leader — Now the World’s Most Powerful Man …
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SHORT URL: http://tinyurl.com/2014-Reform Security sector reform and advancement begins in the mind. In the 21st Century, raw information and tailored intelligence (decision support) are fundamental to progress at the strategic, operational, tactical, and technical levels. If we are to properly address intelligence governance from a comparative and international perspective rooted in an appreciation for the …
Yale Online Course Catalog Update I read “Yale Censored a Student’s Course Selection Website. So I Made an Unblockable Replacement.” The author seems to be a Yale student. Excitement will definitely ensue. Also, I am encouraged that the workaround is a Google Chrome extension. Good news for students who want to use a popular browser …
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