As I was listening to this singularity University interview recently, my mind drifted back to our deliberations here..and wonder what the community thinks. Beyond this is the reporting I am listening to right now on what Verizon was complelled to do under the Patriot Act through the "build out" of databases and whether this notion of privacy is a pipe dream or not. :-)
I would have suggested two or three years ago that legalizing drugs is a pipe dream. But I would never have thought then that legalizing marijuana would have gotten as far as it has.
mpouraryan - Yes, we direly need some checks and balances on the proces of drone assassination. Right now, there is a strong danger that a sitting President could use the tools to assasinate political enemies.
I agree...and I fear that we're already there..This is especially as the recent stories have come out about the President and the Adminstration on "Kill Lists".....
A recent public poll in Florida found that the majority of people did not want pot legalized, even for medical use, despite all the benefits it has for everything from glaucoma to cancer to neurological diseases, PTSD, and a ton of other things we're only starting to discover. Yet when my FL friend's mother was dying of cancer and fading away, the doctors prescribed THC in tablet form... go figure.
Don't get me started on Ellis Island and immigration policy, and...
Do you know, US immigration stills requires full medicals for people "arriving" in the country, to ensure they're not harboring certain diseases? All well and good, but "arriving" includes people being awarded permanent residency. I had to have a full medical -- then a second one, because the INS lost the first one -- even though I had been living here a full ten years at the time.
Ludicrous. You also have to fill in forms telling them what "vessel" you arrived on. I am not kidding.
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The US National Security Agency learned the hard way that it can be dangerous to give a contractor too much money and access, with too little scrutiny. The NSA and other government agencies hire tens of thousands of contractors
a year to analyze data. Edward Snowden -- who revealed himself as the NSA leaker after fleeing the country -- was one such contractor, reportedly holding a $122,000 salaried position at Booz Allen Hamilton at the time of his departure.
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Big-data and analytics tools enable marketers to understand customers as individuals, identifying unmet needs and addressing each customer as a "segment of one," says John Kennedy, VP corporate marketing, IBM.
New York's Metropolitan Transit Authority is conducting a pilot test of digital kiosks to guide subway users to where they want to go more efficiently and at lower cost.
The whole Amazon.reader debate is a double-stupid. It's stupid to think that there's any e-book buyer who doesn't know Amazon's URL, and it was stupider to let ICANN launch the whole free-form TLD initiative to start with.
While NFC's original goal was to enhance mobile commerce applications, it is finding its way into a number of other uses, which is creating both opportunity as well as challenges for IT departments.
Enterprises would like to move to cloud computing but are hesitant because they are concerned about providers’ ability to secure company data. Here are some tips that help to ensure that if breaches occur, the business is not left holding the bag.
Edmunds separates customers into segments based on the info it collects on its site and from partners, and uses that to push out custom content, said Brian Baron, director of business analytics for Edmunds.com, at Predictive Analytics Innovation Summit.
The IBM Smarter Commerce Global Summit in Monaco kicked into high gear today, and we've already begun to see news emerging from that lovely city-state by the sea.
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