by Leroy Hurt | Oct 13, 2012 | Uncategorized
Via TechCrunch, an issue about the future of privacy: It can’t be long before privacy becomes, like clean water or reliable power, something that only the rich can afford. From...
by Leroy Hurt | Oct 13, 2012 | Uncategorized
Via Forbes, a provocative statement about the true nature of banks: But there is a very real sense in which a consumer bank should not really be regarded as a financial institution at all. It’s a computing system which happens to do finance. Which means that the...
by Leroy Hurt | Oct 13, 2012 | Uncategorized
Via Houston Chronicle: “Because an organizational buyer typically makes large-scale purchase decisions, the organizational buyer will use a different evaluation of risk versus reward than the evaluation used by a typical consumer.” From...
by Leroy Hurt | Oct 13, 2012 | Uncategorized
Via The News Tribune: The Army plans to shed 60,000 troops, or 11 percent of its active force, to reach 490,000 by fiscal 2017. The Marine Corps will cut 20,000 – 5,000 a year over the next four years – to reach an end-strength of 182,100. Read more here:...
by Leroy Hurt | Oct 13, 2012 | Uncategorized
Via IEEE Spectrum: Robots are fairly decent at using prefabricated materials to build things, but when you get out into an unstructured environment (whether it’s somewhere like a forest or a city after a major disaster), it doesn’t really make sense to bring...
