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2014/02/032016/03/26

Reflections on the Future of Information Technology – An Open Letter

SHORTCUT: http://tinyurl.com/2014-Open-Letter This started out as an a letter to the collective leadership of a very promising open source software company, took a side step toward Microsoft, and finally made the leap here as a general open reference. Earth Intelligence Network, A Virginia Non-Profit (501c3) Corporation, is seeking endowed alliances that might wish to advance …

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2014/02/022014/02/02

Berto Jongman: The Year the USA (Courts, NSA, Google) Broke the Internet

2014: The Year America Broke The Internet A recent decision by a US Appeals court ended the regulation of the internet as we know it. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) was deemed to have created a framework for ensuring the concept of “net neutrality” out-with the remit for the organisation it created itself. Now, a …

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2014/01/302014/01/30

Berto Jongman: Catalog of Snowden Revelations About NSA (Brookings)

Catalog of the Snowden Revelations About NSA This page catalogs various revelations by Edward Snowden, regarding the United States’ surveillance activities. Each disclosure is assigned to one of the following categories: tools and methods, overseas USG locations from which operations are undertaken, foreign officials and systems that NSA has targeted, encryption that NSA has broken, ISPs or platforms that NSA …

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2014/01/272014/01/27

Mini-Me: Is Google Stupid? Here’s The Plan — and the Phi Beta Iota Alternative

Huh? Google’s Grand Plan to Make Your Brain Irrelevant By Marcus Wohlsen WIRED 01.27.14 Google is on a shopping spree, buying startup after startup to push its business into the future. But these companies don’t run web services or sell ads or build smartphone software or dabble in other things that Google is best known …

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2014/01/27

SchwartzReport: NSA Is Making Us All Less Safe

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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2014/01/232014/01/23

Freedom: Delete Your Google+

This is the page where you can delete your Google+ profile. We recommend this. Just as Microsoft writes buggy code that hogs hardware resources, so also does Google+ burden you with “overhead” that slows everything down. And of course Google is the new NSA…. On YouTube, you need to re-enable your individual videos. Better yet, …

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2014/01/15

Owl: Welfare for the Rich & Corporations

For those who have right-wing extremist friends who complains about welfare for the poor, especially for the dark-skinned ones, share this article with them. Here’s the first three: “There are actually thousands of tax breaks and subsidies for the rich and corporations provided by federal, state and local governments but these ten will give a …

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