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Thursday, January 11, 2018
The dragon spreads its wings.
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Friday, June 12, 2015
Tuesday, February 4, 2014
Leo Mirani — The Future of Microsoft, According to New CEO Satya Nadella
Microsoft has a new CEO. The future looks to be "cloudy."
On another note, Satya* Nadella is Indian-born, adding more color to American diversity at the top.
* Satya means truth in Sanskrit.
The Atlantic — Business
The Future of Microsoft, According to New CEO Satya Nadella
Leo Mirani
The Atlantic — Business
The Future of Microsoft, According to New CEO Satya Nadella
Leo Mirani
Saturday, February 1, 2014
The Economics of Basic Social Operations ... Are Deeply Broken
(Commentary posted by Roger Erickson)
Have you watched the videotaped interview of Ed Snowden in Moscow? The interview drives home the reality of a very simple fact.
The entire current state of computing is an abuse waiting to happen.
Have you watched the videotaped interview of Ed Snowden in Moscow? The interview drives home the reality of a very simple fact.
The entire current state of computing is an abuse waiting to happen.
Every aspect of social information assurance has to be rethought, from the IP packet on up.
Yet our US media is censoring the Snowden Interview, while YouTube & websites block it? What don't our own government and corporations want US citizens to hear?
Yet the whole context barely makes operational sense, once it's overwhelming implications sink in. Three aspects of our current context emerge, and they are worth stressing.
1) One agency's runaway capabilities have clearly compromised the entire workings of the US Congress, POTUS AND SCOTUS - not to mention the rest of the electorate. We HAVE no civil protections. They are ALL compromised! Completely.
2) How and why? Entirely due to a broken policy & personnel system, all eventually reliant upon political campaign funding from the very corporations angling for contracts to staff said agency!
3) All this has occurred WHILE that agency & those corporations employ truly juvenile IT/IS operations & controls which leave THEMSELVES totally compromised!
It's like one, huge, Heath Robinson STUPID machine!
We're extremely lucky that this hasn't ALREADY blown up into unimaginably bad outcomes. At the heart of it are completely archaic information-assurance methods, layered on top of a TOTALLY compromised personnel system. Even worse, both of those are layered on top of a near hopelessly ill-informed electorate. What COULDN'T go wrong?
Here's a good synopsis of the print & video details previously disclosed:
@#$%^&! When is enough more than enough?
Yet our US media is censoring the Snowden Interview, while YouTube & websites block it? What don't our own government and corporations want US citizens to hear?
"the video has been taken down almost immediately every time it’s posted on YouTube"The videotaped interview with Snowdon doesn't reveal anything new at all. It does, however, drive home some of the truly astounding "situational" facts that have already been reviewed at length in print.
Yet the whole context barely makes operational sense, once it's overwhelming implications sink in. Three aspects of our current context emerge, and they are worth stressing.
1) One agency's runaway capabilities have clearly compromised the entire workings of the US Congress, POTUS AND SCOTUS - not to mention the rest of the electorate. We HAVE no civil protections. They are ALL compromised! Completely.
2) How and why? Entirely due to a broken policy & personnel system, all eventually reliant upon political campaign funding from the very corporations angling for contracts to staff said agency!
3) All this has occurred WHILE that agency & those corporations employ truly juvenile IT/IS operations & controls which leave THEMSELVES totally compromised!
It's like one, huge, Heath Robinson STUPID machine!
We're extremely lucky that this hasn't ALREADY blown up into unimaginably bad outcomes. At the heart of it are completely archaic information-assurance methods, layered on top of a TOTALLY compromised personnel system. Even worse, both of those are layered on top of a near hopelessly ill-informed electorate. What COULDN'T go wrong?
Here's a good synopsis of the print & video details previously disclosed:
(Same video, on YouTube and at CCC-TC, Germany)
NSA "TURMOIL" is deep packet inspection
(of any computer whatsoever, anywhere),NSA "TURBINE" is deep packet injection
(of info into any computer, including your account, at your bank!)NSA "QFIRE" is their integration.
@#$%^&! When is enough more than enough?
It's like we've all caught the Clapper. Yet this is far worse than other social diseases.
If we retard internet security, we're retarding our culture (and everyone else's too).
Forget endemic dash cams in Russian cars, this immediately puts pressure on all people everywhere in the entire world ... to store, verify and DOCUMENT every single IT packet that ever goes in to or out of their IT devices AND their home routers or cable modems ... purely for defensive purposes. Otherwise, anyone can be framed.
Does anyone smell a protection racket coming?
The entire current state of computing actually is an abuse waiting to happen.
As is the state of Democracy in the USA. We have democracy compromised.
"the NSA has in a literal sense retarded the process by which we would secure the internet"That really hits home.
If we retard internet security, we're retarding our culture (and everyone else's too).
Forget endemic dash cams in Russian cars, this immediately puts pressure on all people everywhere in the entire world ... to store, verify and DOCUMENT every single IT packet that ever goes in to or out of their IT devices AND their home routers or cable modems ... purely for defensive purposes. Otherwise, anyone can be framed.
Does anyone smell a protection racket coming?
The entire current state of computing actually is an abuse waiting to happen.
As is the state of Democracy in the USA. We have democracy compromised.
Tuesday, August 6, 2013
Robert Locke and David Taylor — The wilfully ignorant?
Reconfiguring economics as information science instead of equilibrium. Gunnar Eliasson and the Information Revolution and “the Experimentally Organized Economy.” Uncertainty and risk arising from complexity. Kenneth Boulding's iconic approach.
Real-World Economics Review Blog
The wilfully ignorant?
Robert Locke and David Taylor
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Capitalism with Asian characteristics
Many speakers pointed out that with economic crises in Europe and the U.S. still unresolved, following the western capitalist model blindly is not the right development path for Asia, which should instead develop its own model, utilising traditional practices.Read it at IPS Inter Press Service
This was a theme reflected in a keynote speech given by Ho Kwong Ping, whose Banyan Tree Holdings has developed a chain of luxury hotels across the world based on Asian tastes and standards.
Still, he warned that Asia’s rise is not predetermined and argued that the continent must produce a basket of intellectual solutions to address Asia’s chronic social inequality.
"China has a deficit of democracy (while) Indian leaders have realised that democracy is not reducing inequality" and both are unable to "move beyond capital reforms," he noted.
"As Asia continues its dynamic growth we need to delve into our own history and culture for inspiration to develop Asian values of capitalism. One resource could be the webs of mutual obligations which are present in virtually all civilisations of Asia," argued Ping. "It is possible for Asia to develop this communitarian capitalism, if properly nurtured and developed, as an alternative to the highly individualistic model of American capitalism."
Ping singled out India’s Tata model of capitalism, which benefits from being "stakeholder driven and not shareholder driven."
Tata’s Gopalakrishnan told IPS that most Asian businesspeople have been reading books written by Westerners and adopting their ideas only because there are hardly any books written about good practices by Asians.
"The West is…saying we must become conscious capitalists (though) many people in Asia are saying we have always been doing that," he said.
India’s IT Elite Could Shape New ‘Asian Capitalism’
by Kalinga Seneviratne
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