by Leroy Hurt | Aug 3, 2013 | Uncategorized
Via Instapundit and City Journal: …we have embarked on an experiment to rid our cities of children. In the 1960s, sociologist Herbert Gans identified a growing chasm between family-oriented suburbanites and people who favored city life—“the rich, the poor, the...
by Leroy Hurt | Aug 3, 2013 | Uncategorized
Via Bloomberg: The primary business model of the Internet is built on mass surveillance, and our government’s intelligence-gathering agencies have become addicted to that data.… The simple answer is to blame consumers, who shouldn’t use mobile phones, credit cards,...
by Leroy Hurt | Aug 3, 2013 | Uncategorized
Via Business Insider: Click farms have become a growing challenge for companies which rely on social media measurements – meant to indicate approval by real users – to estimate the popularity of their products. For the workers, though, it is miserable work, sitting at...
by Leroy Hurt | Aug 3, 2013 | Uncategorized
Via Business Insider: In recent years, some of the most famous names in tech, like Microsoft’s Bill Gates and Paul Allen, Google’s Larry Page and Eric Schmidt, and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos have been founding and investing in companies that are looking to...
by Leroy Hurt | Aug 3, 2013 | Uncategorized
Via Business Insider: The state of Pennsylvania is killing a contract with IBM because, as of July, the project was $60 million over budget and a whopping 42 months behind schedule, state officials said. That’s three and a half years late. Pennsylvania kills IBM...
