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2015/12/202015/12/19

Robert James Beckett: IBM’s OpenPower — Wrong Thing Righter?

Competing Billion-Dollar Tech Companies Are Joining Forces. Here’s Why. The combination of open innovation and accelerated computing represents one of this decade’s most important technology trends. It’s transforming the concept of the closed-off supercomputer to a more diverse open architecture. As a result, companies that haven’t worked together before—and that may, in fact, be competitors—are …

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2015/12/192015/12/19

Open Power Trilogy

Here are the two white papers and one book published at Amazon, along with their free variations, in public service. All of the preconditions for revolution exist in the USA today, from a concentration of wealth combined with 23% unemployment to a government that has lost all legitimacy in the eyes of the people because …

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2015/12/19

Blake Percival, IC Security Clearance Whistleblower, Wins One on the Margins

The whistleblower who exposed U.S.’s flawed security clearance system finally gets his reward By Christian Davenport, The Washington Post, 18 December 2015 “I hate that we dump,” one of them confided. “What do you mean?” Blake Percival asked. The answer — that the company was cutting corners performing the federal background checks used in granting …

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2015/12/162015/12/16

DefDog: John Hamre Gets It Wrong — and Politico Lets Him Slide — “Electronic Pearl Harbor” is Original to Winn Schwartau

The ‘electronic Pearl Harbor’ Eighteen years ago I was the first to use that term publicly. It was the wrong analogy then. Not anymore. The phrase became a touchstone in the long national argument over cybersecurity, for better or worse. I was not the author of the phrase. That honor goes to a dear friend of …

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2015/12/132015/12/12

Yoda: Internet Sucks 4 – Micah Sifry’s The Big Disconnect

Micah Sifry: Progressive Activism Frustrated by Lack of Tools — And Refusal to Share… Review: The Big Disconnect – Why the Internet Hasn’t Transformed Politics (Yet)

2015/12/112015/12/11

Yoda: Matt McAlister on Need for $1B Journalism Fund

Google and Facebook as the dark force… Silicon Valley should follow Google and create a $1bn journalism fund Matt McAlister of Publish.org The Guardian EXTRACT Europe has assumed the role of digital media regulator in the apparent absence of a moral compass within these platforms that exert increasing influence over our lives.

2015/12/112015/12/10

Robert Steele: What Business Is Google In? Mass Surveillance. Period.

Reflecting on Eric Schmidt’s idiocy of yesterday, and the failure of Google to render useful tools enhancing public understanding and power, I asked a few folks what business Google was in, and how we should interpret their introducing of Google Fiber to major cities. The answer is: Google is in the business of mass surveillance, …

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