The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Unexpected Observations from the President of Oracle Perhaps the apparently incongruous remarks from Oracle president Mark Hurd foretell a shift in direction for his company. That was my thought when I read ReadWrite‘s piece, “Red Hat to Oracle: Have You Tried Free?” However, writer Matt Asay seems to see Hurd’s comments as either hypocritical or …
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How to Cope with News Filtering Ten years ago, I subscribed to traditional newspapers. Each morning I worked through the Courier Journal, the New York Times, the Financial Times, and the Wall Street Journal. Today I rely on the information available to me without charge from various online services. On two recent research projects, I …
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Power Search for Open Source Developers Open source is cutting across the world as solution revolution. It is making technology cheaper and more widely available. It could have positive far reaching consequences in education and aerospace technology, but all revolutions need a little help getting off the ground. “Open source projects need all the help …
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Big Data Analytics Proves Invaluable In Tax Fraud Investigation Posted: 29 Aug 2013 03:57 PM PDT The article on ComputerWeekly.com titled Big Data Journalism Exposes Offshore Tax Dodgers reports on the findings of Offshore Leaks, the result of the work of an international group of journalists. The fascinating story of offshore tax evasion by over …
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Best Social Monitoring Tool Depends on Who Is Asking Posted: 23 Aug 2013 06:15 PM PDT Confused about social media monitoring? A thread at Quora, “Which Are the Best Social Media Monitoring Tools?” suggests that like search, social media monitoring is pretty tricky. The overall consensus statement makes it clear there is no simple answer: …
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Replicant Hopes to Free Mobile from the Tyranny of Proprietary Software August 27, 2013 Citing freedom and security concerns, the makers of Replicant are calling for donations, we learn from “Fundraising a Fully Free Fork of Android” at Boing Boing. The project hopes to give us all the choice to run our Android-based mobile devices …
Surveillance Organization Unable to Search Own Employees Email An article titled NSA Says It Can’t Search Its Own Emails on ProPublica brings up an interesting glitch in the NSA’s surveillance technology. In spite of having the capability to sort through big data with a supercomputer, when it comes to doing a search of NSA’s over …
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