The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
UPDATE: Submission deadline is now June 4th The UK government is holding a consultation about what sort of patent licenses an “open” standard should require. Anyone that develops free software (free as in freedom, not a matter of price) and would like it to be used in the UK has reason to be concerned with …
How Not to Kill Creativity – Jonah Lehrer LIVE on Big Think Jonathan Fowler and Elizabeth Rodd on April 17, 2012 Jonah Lehrer has been described as a kind of “one man third culture” – after training in Neuroscience at Columbia with Nobel Laureate Eric Kandel, he studied literature and philosophy on a Rhodes scholarship …
During World War II, most men joined the service out of a sense of duty and a sense of right and wrong. During the Vietnam war, many men, but not all, were drafted and really didn’t want to be there. But they didn’t want to go to prison. But men tend to join today’s volunteer army …
Continue reading “Theophillis Goodyear: Ethics, Psychology, and the Volunteer Army”
World Wide Web 2012 Detailed Program Phi Beta Iota: Recommended for a sense of what is considered worthy of being on the program. Philosophy is addressed in the plenary panel (“Is the Internet a Human Right”) and in at least one very focused session. The concept of the Autonomous Internet is not center stage at …
Continue reading “Event: 16-20 Apr Lyon France World Wide Web 2012”
For years I have done similar approaches when teaching….and have been told to stop because “it is not the way it is done!” My classes were consistently better equipped to deal with the problems they faced as intelligence officers than the school house folks……they weren’t afraid of an intelligence failure of the information kind, only …
Continue reading “DefDog: Nurturing Innovation in Spite of Really Rotten Rote Education + RECAP”
ROBERT STEELE: I thought F/OSS had merged as a meme. Now I understand you to mean that while both have practical similarities in outcomes, the underlying ethics are completely different. RICHARD STALLMAN: Nothing has changed. The free software movement remains what it has always been since 1983: an ethical and political campaign for freedom for …
Continue reading “Richard Stallman: Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software 1.1”
There is not much new here, other than Curveball’s public admission, but note Colonel Wilkerson’s comment below. One the one hand, Wilkerson admits he was a party to the “sexed up” intelligence; on the other, he wants us to believe Powell (and by extension himself) was being used. Given that “Curveball” was suspected of being …
Continue reading “Chuck Spinney: Cancer of Careerism – Final Word on Colin Powell’s Moral Suicide”
