The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Dumb, computers are. A Busy Doctor’s Right Hand, Ever Ready to Type Amid the controlled chaos that defines an average afternoon in an urban emergency department, Dr. Marian Bednar, an emergency room physician in Dallas, entered the exam room of an older woman who had fallen while walking her dog. Like any doctor, she asked …
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Speech on the NSA at the National Press Club by James Bamford The Committee for the Republic Thursday, January 16, 2014 from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM (EST) National Press Club, DC Event Brite Free Registration See Also: Steven Levy: 2 Hours with NSA Chiefs — They Are a) Suffering Cognitive Dissonance and b) Seriously …
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Big Data 2013 Wrapup 2013 was the year that big data became big business, says Alex Handy in his San Diego Times article, “Big Data 2013: Another Big Year.” Handy explains that big data made the transformation when enterprises deployed Hadoop in production environments and NoSQL people spread data around on servers. These two combined …
2014: The Year of Encryption “The solution to government surveillance is to encrypt everything.” Eric Schmidt, Patron of NSA Back Door Into Google Phi Beta Iota: Apart from the obvious, that only open source encryption can be scrutinized by millions of minds, this also kills Microsoft, whose software is always 1.3 times what the hardware …
Rule by Algorithm? Big Data and the Threat of Algocracy An increasing number of people are worried about the way in which our data is being mined by governments and corporations. One of these people is Evgeny Morozov. In an article that appeared in the MIT Technology Review back in October 2013, he argued that …
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Lanier: Silicon Valley Making the “Stupid Choice” This piece by NYT columnist Joe Nocera on his read of Jaron Lanier’s book Who Owns the Future is thought-provoking and worth serious consideration by policy makers in the government especially, if only because colossal Silicon Valley greed blinds technology companies to the economic destruction their technology is …
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Is this the year in which populism defeats the two-party system, when the US stops borrowing to finance waste, and when the NSA debacle outrages the American people to the point that they call for a radical overhaul of the government? – DOC (12 Pages): Rethinking Intelligence 2.3 This post is available for complete re-posting …
