The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Amazon Web Services: Crushing the Competition? I read “Attack! Run. WTF? A Decade of Enterprise Class Fear and Uncertainty with AWS.” I am not sure if Amazon’s Web Services’ business is being praised or criticized. Nevertheless, the write up has some interesting factoids. I highlighted these statements: read full post
ISOC Future of the Internet – My Take For questions 6-10, please describe the greatest forces of change that you believe will affect the future of the Internet over the coming five to seven years.
MaidSafe – Their aim is to make the internet a more secure place and to store data permanently on users’ computers… Meet the men who have rewritten the internet The autonomous network they created – called SAFE – has just, after 10 years development, been released as a minimum viable product consisting of a launcher, a …
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Google and a New Approach to Search Relevance We know one cannot search for a topic if the words are not in the index. Should we forget about it? Sure, why not? Quite a few folks perceive Google search results as the equivalent of an overnight visit to the oracle of Delphi. “Google Experimenting with …
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Computational Demand: Not So Fast Analytics, Big Data, and smart software. The computer systems today can handle the load. The death of Moore’s Law; that is, the drive to make chips ever more capable is dead. I just learned this. See “Moore’s Law Really Is Dead This Time.” If that is the case, too bad …
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Getting dirty with open source databases “We have been forced to look elsewhere because it’s not economical. If I want to do some serious number-crunching, I’m not going to spend £60,000 for a box when I can get something like MySQL with zero licensing costs and which pretty much does the same thing. It might …
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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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