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Cybercrime + Organized Crime
InformationWeek – For months now, the feds have said organized crime was moving into the realm of cybercrime, using hackers to run scams and break into systems. But Assistant U.S. Attorney Erez Liebermann, chief of the computer hacking and intellectual … Continue reading
Google Phone Network
Don Reisinger may be on to something regarding 700MHz and Google. -Shlok Sign up for my newsletter.
Market Within The State
S+B has a piece outlining minor steps made by the USG to incorporate market mechanisms (and some level of platform thinking) into its day to day grind- The shared-services providers, in the case of the U.S. government, are most commonly … Continue reading
Rounds On Target
The Independent – The takeaway: Troops use 250,000 bullets per dead insurgent 6,000,000,000 bullets used between 2002-2005 in Iraq+Afghanistan Organic USG ammunition plants can not keep up with demands despite an increase in infrastructure spending Privatizing as a result, contracts … Continue reading
We Beat Checkers
PhysOrg– After 18-and-a-half years and sifting through 500 billion billion (a five followed by 20 zeroes) checkers positions, Dr. Jonathan Schaeffer and colleagues have built a checkers-playing computer program that cannot be beaten. Completed in late April this year, the … Continue reading